It’s been a whirlwind of activity, but the Lakeside Senior Legion baseball team came out of the first wave of storms virtually unscathed.

The group of 18-and-under players from Issaquah, Skyline and Newport high schools completed a string of 14 games in 19 days Monday with a 12-2 record. They are wrapping up the month this weekend, June 26-29, with five more games at the Best of Baden Tournament in San Diego, Calif.

“We’re really loaded pitching-wise, and the offense has just been outstanding,” head coach Rob Reese said.

Lakeside has outscored its opponents 160-35 and recorded six shutouts. The team’s only two losses have come to Chaffey Baseball Club — a group comprised of 21 elite players from 16 different area high schools. Despite the two losses, Lakeside defeated Chaffey in the first meeting and played them close on two other occasions.

The most recent loss came Sunday afternoon, as they fell 6-3 at Bellevue’s Bannerwood Park.

Chaffey showed just how powerful its lineup is, as it blasted four home runs over the fence.

“We gave up a few home runs today … but I thought our pitchers threw well against their lineup,” Reese said after the game. “There was just a couple of mistakes and they took advantage of it.”

Lakeside starter Alex de Marne (Issaquah) kept the potent offense off the board through the first two innings, striking out two.

Chaffey got to him in the third, however, when the No. 9 hitter Andy Bethel (Auburn) led off the inning with a 400-plus foot home run to center field. James Robbins (Shorecrest) increased the lead to 3-0 later that inning, hitting a two-run home run over the right center field fence.

Lakeside battled back in the bottom half of the inning when Skyline’s Ryan Somers lifted an RBI double into the right field gap to score Issaquah’s Mario Sanelli from first base.

Chaffey countered in the fifth with an opposite-field home run to right from Mike Englund (Eastside Catholic). Englund tacked on another home run in the seventh, taking reliever Jared Lemke of Skyline, over the left center field fence. Lakeside scored its other two runs via an RBI groundout from Somers and an RBI double from Kyle Sutherland, but couldn’t get within two runs. Sanelli was 2-for-3 with two runs scored for Lakeside. Englund led Chaffey, going 3-for-4 adding a triple to his two home runs.

Lakeside 8,

Seattle Stars 0

Lakeside rebounded on Monday night, beating the Seattle Stars 8-0 on in a makeup game.

Starting pitcher Blake Fulghum of Skyline went five innings, striking out five and allowing just five hits for the victory.

There were a number of clutch at-bats, including a 2-for-3, three RBI performance from Newport’s Trace Tam Sing. Somers was 2-for-2 with an RBI and Newport’s Collin Bennett was 2-for-2 with two runs scored.

Lakeside is facing two teams from San Diego, one from Arizona and another from Hawaii this weekend in the Best of Baden Tournament.

The team returns to action July 1 against Taylor Baseball at Bellevue Community College.