WILMINGTON — In a baseball season highlighted by a Marine League championship, Banning couldn’t help but feel shortchanged and wanting more Saturday after a second championship game in the span of two weeks that had some controversy.

The top-seeded host Pilots lost the CIF SoCal Regional Division IV final 1-0 to second-seeded Ridgeview on a two-out RBI double from Wolf Pack right fielder Adrian Bravo in the seventh inning of an otherwise tremendous pitchers’ duel.

But it was the prior at-bat that had Banning (24-10) miffed, while Ridgeview (24-11) naturally saw things differently.

Wolf Pack pitcher Joel Gutierrez came through with a single to the outfield. He took a big turn midway past first before stumbling and retreating back to the base.

Banning catcher Evan Gurrola hustled to first base as the play developed, received the throw that beat Gutierrez and applied the tag.

The first-base umpire, however, ruled that Gutierrez got his hand on the bag before the tag. After the three umpires huddled up, the call was upheld.

After Bravo’s tiebreaking double on the first pitch scored pinch-runner Isaiah Marquez, animated Banning coach Tom Louviere exchanged words with the first-base umpire.

Louviere had bad memories of a 3-1 loss to rival Carson in the CIF L.A. City Section Division I championship game May 24 at Dodger Stadium.

“I can’t say it on your phone, but I just told him that it was a BS call,” Louviere said. “We had him. He fell down, he was off the base. Our catcher is back there and we had him out by two feet, and (the umpire) said he got his hand back. There’s no way he got his hand back.

“This is the third time we’ve been screwed by umpires. At Dodger Stadium twice, and now here. ... We should be going into the eighth inning right now. Instead, they’re on our field celebrating, so it’s tough.”

Pedro Ibanez-Eddy, who saw the play unfold from right field, said Banning hadn’t gotten a lot of luck this year.

“It seems that those calls in the close games never go our way,” Ibanez-Eddy said.

Ridgeview coach Robert Shahan, whose dugout was closest to the play down the first-base line, said the correct call was made.

“Oh, 100 percent safe,” Shahan said. “You know, there’s a lot of close calls. ... Altogether, I think they called a good game.”

Gutierrez said the thick grass slowed the ball down and had him think twice about going for extra bases.

“I thought I was going to stretch it out to a double,” Gutierrez said. “I turned back hard and rolled my ankle pretty bad. ... But I got there pretty safe, I was not out.”

Bravo’s game-winning double was the lone extra-base hit allowed by Pilots’ starting pitcher Matthew Gonzalez, who allowed one run on six hits and went the distance.

Gonzalez, who struck out two batters and walked one, said the play “went by quick” from his vantage point on the mound.

“Everybody’s going to have their opinions. I think he was out,” Gonzalez said. “I asked my catcher, the one who made the tag, he said he got him. But it just didn’t go our way.”

Both coaches agreed that Gutierrez and Gonzalez were equally effective throughout the contest.

“I’m super impressed with Banning,” Shahan said. “It feels so difficult to push runs across against their defense, against their pitcher the way he was throwing today.

“To get to play in this tournament, really it’s extra. ... To win three more games and bring home another championship, it’s amazing but we’re also grateful we had the opportunity.”

Wolf Pack third baseman Edwin Hidalgo and shortstop Jacob Quintero each had a pair of singles.

Louviere took the time afterward to personally congratulate Gutierrez after his three-hit complete-game shutout.

Gutierrez, who struck out five and hit two batters, didn’t allow a hit after Ibanez-Eddy’s leadoff single in the third.

“He did a good job,” Louviere said. “He hit his spots, did his job. That’s their ace.”

Gutierrez retired 15 of the final 16 Banning batters, with the lone blemish drilling center fielder Daniel Sanchez with a pitch.

Ibanez-Eddy, who reached base twice, including being hit by a pitch to open the bottom of the first, said Gutierrez had a “pretty firm” fastball. He struck out after fouling off a handful of pitches in a lengthy at-bat in the fifth.

“We were battling, it was like a 10-pitch at-bat, and he got me on a sharp curveball,” Ibanez-Eddy said. “Gotta tip my cap to him.”

Third baseman Jared Nakazawa and designated hitter Anthony Camarena also had singles for the Pilots, who failed to get a runner past second base.

Banning’s best opportunity was first baseman Angelo Duarte’s hard lineout to left field to end the third, stranding Ibanez-Eddy at second.

“Toward the end, every pitch in the arsenal was just working,” Gutierrez said.