Hall-of-Fame basketball player Oscar Robertson reached rare heights in the 1961-62 NBA season, becoming the only NBA player ever to average a triple-double over the course of an entire season.

Forty-three years later, Murrayhill Little League reached an unprecedented milestone of their own: the Beaverton-based league's major baseball all-star team recorded Oregon's first-ever double-triple.

"These kids have won state . . . as ten-year-olds and again as eleven-year-olds," explained Murrayhill manager Ron Wold as his team battled early in the state tournament. "And Murrayhill has won the majors tournament the last two years."

With both the players and league aiming for a third consecutive title, Wold said, "I guess you might call that a double-triple."

Murrayhill claimed its double-triple with a string of double-digit wins. The District 4 champions defeated each of its four state tournament opponents by at least ten runs, and claimed its eighth-ever major baseball state championship with an 18-7 victory over Corvallis American Little League at Alpenrose Stadium in Portland.

With the win, Murrayhill advanced to the Northwest Region tournament in San Bernardino, California.

Murrayhill reached the championship game by blanking Corvallis 13-0, but the District 7 champions earned a rematch, and then raced to an early lead in the championship game. Allen Arnold and Zac Cardwell both homered in the first inning, and Arnold added a two-run homer in the second as Corvallis built a 6-1 lead.

At this point things looked good for Corvallis: their starting pitcher, Tyler McFadden, hadn't given up more than one run in any game all season and was pitching well, holding Murrayhill to one run thru the first two innings. But Murrayhill, which outscored its previous three state tournament opponents by a 34-1 margin, took the lead with a six-run rally in the third inning and then involked the mercy rule with an eleven-run rally in the fourth.

"I didn't expect it to end that way," said Wold, whose team turned the five-run deficit into the second-highest scoring total in an Oregon championship game.

Portland's Rose City Little League defeated Hood River Little League 24-2 in the 1966 state championship game.

Jeremy Plymale keyed Murrayhill's comeback, going 4-for-4 with a pair of home runs and eight RBIs. Plymale's first home run, a three-run shot in the third inning, sliced Corvallis' lead to 6-4. Blake Montague's RBI single halved that gap, then reserve Derek Keller delivered a two-run homer to give Murrayhill the lead.

Montague, who came on in relief in the third inning, held Corvallis' offense to one run over the next two innings, and Murrayhill put the game away in the fourth. Quinn McLafferty extended the lead with a two-run homer, then Montague and Sebastian Merrell added RBI singles. Jake Azevado's two-run homer extended the lead to 13-6, and Plymale later capped the inning with a grand slam.

Plymale was 9-for-10 with four home runs and 16 RBIs over his final three games at the state tournament.

"Plymale was incredible not only this year, but over the last two years," said Corvallis manager Mike Prentiss. "He's hit us better than anyone we've faced."

Corvallis, which had finished as the runner-up to Murrayhill in the eleven-year-old Oregon state tournament in 2004, claimed its first-ever district title in the major baseball division. Prentiss traced the District 7 champions' success to the implementation of a fall league schedule in 2003, and to his team's hard work.

"This team was the first baseball team to win a district title from Corvallis Little League when they won District as ten-year-olds," explained the Corvallis manager. "(They) repeated as eleven-year-olds and again as twelves'.

"They worked very hard over the last two seasons to get to this game," he added. "Pitching has been our strength, but Murrayhill's hitting was too much to overcome, especially on their home field. Our hats are off to them. They proved themselves to be great competitors and champions."

Corvallis rebounded from its first loss to Murrayhill with an 11-9 victory over Clackamas. Cardwell hit a grand slam, while Jamie Alsip and Arnold also homered for Corvallis. Alsip and Jeff Hendrix were 4-for-4 for the winners.

Garrett Miller pitched five strong innings for Corvallis, and Jordan Brown earned the save by needing only six pitches to register a pair of strikeouts after Clackamas brought the potential winning run to the plate in the bottom of the sixth inning.

Shawn Eberhardt was 2-for-4 with a home run and pitched three scoreless innings for Clackamas.

Clackamas, which had won a pair of elimination games after being no-hit by Murrayhill's Connor Barr in the winner's bracket semifinals, finished the tournament in third place. Barr struck out nine of the thirteen batters he faced to lead Murrayhill to the win, and the eventual state champions scored five runs in the third inning to break the game open.

Murrayhill split its four pool games at the Northwest Region tournament, and reached the region's semifinal round for the third consecutive year. The Oregon champions' four-run, sixth inning rally fell just short, as Murrayhill fell, 6-5, to eventual Little League World Series champion West Oahu Little League (Ewa Beach, Hawaii) in their semifinal round matchup.