Key West Conchs and Marathon Dolphins baseball squads are battling for journeys to the state Elite Eight.
The Conchs matched up with the Scorpions of Satellite tv for pc Seaside for his or her 4A Area 4 quarterfinals. Key West received stung in recreation one on April 21 after placing simply two runs on the board, one every in innings one and 7. The staff’s three hits got here off the bats of Auggy Davila, Caden Pichardo and Nelson Ong, with Kade Maltz and Pichardo getting credit score for the RBIs. Jon Carlos Lampas-Gormley threw six innings, putting out six, strolling two and surrendering 9 hits and 5 earned runs.
After some back-and-forth scheduling, the groups confronted off once more the next afternoon, April 22. This time, it was the Conchs’ flip to do the stinging. Key West pulled forward with three runs within the first body and by no means appeared again. The bats had been ringing, with a staff whole of 9 hits. Ong, Roman Garcia and Darreld Tremino had been accountable for two hits every. Garcia homered in inning six to middle discipline, and Ong tripled.
Vinny Moline began for the Conchs, giving up two hits and a pair of earned runs over three innings. Moline struck out 4 batters earlier than handing the ball off to Davila for 3 frames. Kasey Kasper closed out the 11-5 win for Key West, sending each groups to Satellite tv for pc Seaside for recreation three on April 24.
Kasper picked up the place he left off two nights prior, shutting down the Scorpions in a full seven innings on the mound. The senior hurler fanned two and gave up seven hits with no walks and no runs scored for a shutout playoff win. Davila had a single and a double whereas Pichardo, Maltz, Sam Holland, Ong, Garcia and Xavier Perez every contributed to Key West’s eight hits.
The three-0 win moved the Conchs ahead within the brackets to the regional semifinals. The No. 5 seed Conchs drew top-seeded American Heritage as their rivals for a brand new three-game collection on April 28 and 29 at Heritage.
Evening one proved to be robust sledding for the Conchs after the Patriots piled on 4 runs within the fourth inning en path to a 6-1 remaining rating. Ought to the groups break up the wins in video games one and two (recreation two outcomes not obtainable at press time), Heritage will journey to Key West Might 1 to face the Conchs at Rex Weech Discipline at 7 p.m.
CORAL SHORES
Coral Shores completed 19-5-1 this season, incomes its first-ever district championship. The Hurricanes had been dealt a difficult hand of their path towards states, incomes the bottom seed in 2A’s Area 4 and taking the sector towards top-seeded Cardinal Newman within the regional quarterfinals. The collection, performed at Cardinal Newman for video games one and two, started April 21.
The ’Canes saved it shut for innings one and two till the Crusaders opened the floodgates, scoring 14 runs within the third off a 10-hit rally to finish the sport early. Coral Shores managed simply two hits, each off the bat of Campbell Lavoie. Lavoie began on the mound for the ’Canes, who threw an arsenal of pitching workers on the Crusaders.
The next evening, Coral Shores hoped to avenge the 20-0 loss and keep alive within the postseason. The Hurricanes put two runners on base within the high of the primary, when AJ Putetti singled and Maykol Bonito was struck by a pitch, however each discovered themselves stranded. The Crusaders managed a single run within the first body and the rating remained 1-0 till inning 4, when Newman added yet one more.
Within the high of the fifth, Eddie Holly hit a tough double into proper discipline and Maykol Bonito drove him house. However the Hurricane bats stalled there and the Crusaders went on to attain three extra runs to win 5-1, sending Cardinal Newman to the semis and Coral Shores house.
Donovan Thiery had a unbelievable evening on the mound, putting out 10 batters, strolling 4 and giving up simply two hits. Thiery spanned the primary 4 frames earlier than Riley O’Berry took over. Earlier than handing the ball to O’Berry, Thiery registered 100 strikeouts for the season, then fanned yet one more for good measure. Three Hurricanes – Thiery, Putetti and Holly – ended the season batting above .400. Thiery drove in 37 runs whereas Putetti stole 21 bases and scored 42 occasions this season, and each at present stand in second in all of 2A with these numbers.
MARATHON
FHSAA’s smaller Rural classification, which incorporates Marathon, didn’t require a quarterfinal collection, sending the Fins on to the semifinals the place they matched up with the Miners of Fort Meade – the identical staff they upset for his or her district championship. Marathon’s district win tipped the rankings scales simply sufficient to provide them a assured two house video games within the three-game collection starting on April 28 and 29.
Regardless of a hearty house crowd at their backs and a 1-0 lead by the primary 5 frames of error-free baseball, a three-run sixth inning proved to be the killer for the Fins in recreation one, ending the evening with a 4-1 loss (recreation two outcomes not obtainable at press time). With a win on April 29, the Fins would take a highway journey to Fort Meade on Might 1 to find out which staff will earn Elite Eight standing.