FRANKLIN — The Bradford Blaze 11U baseball team went 3-1 to bring home the Franklin Firestorm Bring the Heat Tournament championship this past weekend.

Held at Miller-Sibley Fields on Saturday and Sunday, the Blaze opened with an 11-0 four-inning win over Saegertown 11U as the Bradford boys cranked out 13 hits to Saegertown’s zero. Pacing the Blaze bats were Jameis Furlong, Bentlee Confer, Mason Haynoski and Michael Ferchak. Recording three RBI each were Furlong, Mason Haynoski and Brock Crappio. Furlong, Ferchak and Griffin Stewart all scored two runs apiece.

On the mound in the winners’ no-hitter were Crappio and Kaiden Christjohn. They combined to strike out seven hitters, while walking just two without surrendering a single hit.

Later that day, Bradford dropped a 5-4 decision to host Franklin, despite jumping out to a 4-0 lead after one.

The Blaze were led by Confer offensively, who finished 2-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored. Furlong, Mason Haynoski, guest Beckham Myers of Olean, N.Y., Caleb Weart and Griffin Atteberry all tallied a hit for Bradford.

Pitching for Bradford, Furlong, Mason Haynoski and Myers combined to whiff eight, walk three and scatter five hits.

In bracket play Sunday, the 2-seed Blaze turned back the Clearfield Kagerz 11U in a 12-7 game.

Powering the Bradford offense were Mason Haynoski (2-for-2), Weart (2-for-2), Crappio (2-for-3) and Confer (two RBI). Also sending in runs were Eli Haynoski, Crappio, Myers, Weart, Atteberry, Ferchak and Stewart, while Mason Haynoski, Crappio and Myers all scored two runs each.

On the mound, Furlong, Confer, Crappio and Weart combined to allow 15 hits, strike out three and walk four.

Behind schedule, the championship tilt between Franklin and Bradford started hours late and the players decided things under the lights Sunday evening.

The Blaze once more leaped out to a 4-0 lead after the first inning. Furlong led things off with a single to left field. Eli Haynoski sent him to second on a bunt single in the second spot. Mason Haynoski loaded the bases with a line drive ripped to center field in the next at bat.

Crappio reached first on a hard ground-ball single to left that plated Furlong for a 1-0 edge. Confer sent home the Haynoski brothers with a fly ball that dropped into center field and it was 3-0 Bradford. In the sixth spot, a grounder from Weart sent Crappio home for a 4-0 game.

Crappio pitched three and one-third innings, retiring four, walking two and allowing only 1 hit.

The teams were scoreless in the second, third and fourth innings, then Franklin’s five-hit flurry in the fifth knotted things at 4-4.

On the mound in relief, Furlong hurled one and two-thirds innings holding the hosts to one run on two hits, striking out two and walking one, with some solid infield defense behind him, particularly from the ever dependable Eli Haynoski at short. Spying an impending bunt, Eli roved toward third, charged the perfect bunt at breakneck speed, barehanded the ball and fired it to first base for the first out in the sixth inning on a spectacular defensive play.

A ground-out fielder’s choice recorded the second out. A Franklin base knock then scored another run for the hosts to keep Bradford fans nervous and the game at 6-5.

In the next at-bat, Furlong delivered a ground ball to Eli Haynoski, who calmly gathered in a high hop and fired it to Mason Haynoski at first for the tournament title.

Mason Haynoski had a golden glove all weekend at first base for the Blaze. Others who were sure-handed defensively throughout for Bradford were Weart, Myers, Ferchak, Furlong, Confer and Atteberry.

Collecting multiple hits in the championship win were Mason Haynoski (2-for-3), Crappio (2-for-3), Myers (2-for-3) and Christjohn (2-for-2). Crappio and Confer both drove in two runs.

So far this season, the Blaze are 4-1, having outscored their opponents 50-19. They will host a one-day tournament Sept. 13 and are scheduled to take on a team from Niagara Falls in a doubleheader Sept. 20 at a Buffalo, N.Y.-area field to be determined.