Pitching stole the spotlight on opening night, but the offenses took over Saturday to conclude the 25th annual Wisconsin Baseball Coaches Association All-Star Classic tournament.

Eau Claire Memorial’s Ben Sebesta and his squad proved how the West was won as they finished off a 3-0 weekend. Sebesta finished 4 for 5 in the two games Saturday and was named the four-team, round-robin tournament’s Most Valuable Player.

The West jumped to a 4-0 advantage in its first at-bat against the North, only to see the latter push across seven runs in the bottom half. However, the North responded with a five-run second and never looked back, taking a 16-9 triumph.

Sebesta finished 2 for 2, while Austin Lubinsky of La Crosse Logan finished 3 for 4 and Brad Hallberg of Barron, Cody Koback of Stevens Point and Jake Long of Wisconsin Rapids chipped in two hits. Koback had a double and three RBIs, Lance Murphy of Ellsworth brought in two and Long smacked a homer to go with three RBIs.

Eau Claire Memorial’s Ben Kincaid went three innings and was credited with the victory.

The West followed that with another convincing triumph, scoring 11 runs in the first three innings en route to a 13-5 decision against the South, which also entered this showdown with a 2-0 mark.

Sebesta and Hallberg chipped in two hits and a triple apiece to lead the West’s offense, which also received two hits from Merrill’s Alex Grunenwald and Wausau East’s Dan Hagedorn and two RBIs from New Richmond’s Cole Johnson.

Viroqua’s Jay Fanta, Prairie du Chien’s Kyle Sime and Madison La Follette’s Kyle Schmidt recorded two hits for the South.

The South also pounded the East in the day’s first matchup, scoring four times in the third and three times in each of the next three frames to claim a 14-2 verdict.

Fanta, Trevin Szulczewski of Nekoosa and Spencer Lorrig of Madison Memorial contributed two hits apiece while Sime, Edgerton’s Aaron Laskowski and Waunakee’s Ryan Mielke had two RBIs each as the South accumulated five extra-base hits.

Matt Meisenheimer of West Bend West clubbed a homer for the East, but Topping and Laskowski combined on a two-hitter.

The four and final contest, shortened to five innings because of a 90-minute rain delay earlier in the day, saw the North rally for a 4-3 decision to finish 1-2 and send the East home at 0-3.

Oshkosh North’s Max Mittelstaedt finished 2 for 2 with a double and an RBI single. His squad won as Justin Jirschele of Clintonville singled, advanced to third on a sacrifice and single and scored on a single from Little Chute’s Ethan Bestul in the bottom of the fifth.