Silo and Calera baseball teams each bowed out of state tournament action last week with narrow opening round defeats.
In Class 3A, Silo ran into a red hot offense in Davis as they fell 8-7 in the quarterfinal while Calera’s season ended with a 2-1 setback to nearby rival Colbert in the 2A Division 1 event.
Silo
The Rebels notched 14 hits but left a small army on the bases in the first round setback to Davis, which was making its first ever state appearance.
It was a back-and-forth affair through- out the contest but Silo managed multiple runs in only one inning (the first), while the top of the Wolves’ order came through time and again while plating two runs in the first, second, fourth and sixth stanzas.
Silo capitalized on backto- back walks ahead of three straight hits from Cannon Atwood, Nolan Northcott and Ty Hatley in the opening frame barrage but two-out hits were sparse the rest of the way.
Davis meanwhile was unconscious offensively with the first four batters in the order tallying 11 of their 12 hits, including a pair of doubles, a triple and three home runs.
Ty Hatley and Blane Beauchamp each posted three hits with two apiece from Atwood, Warner Bradley and Brycen Salsbury.
Calera
Facing off with Colbert for the first time all season, it turned into a pitcher’s duel from the start with Calera’s Logan Bumgarner and Colbert’s Kaden Neill battling toe-to-toe for seven innings.
The Leopards broke the scoring ice with a fourth inning run off Bumgarner, putting together a double and single for two of the Colbert’s five hits in the game.
Calera tied it one frame later after Hazyn Applegate opened with a single, moved to second on Gavin Chaffin’s sacrifice bunt and scored on a Bumgarner single.
Colbert got that run right back following a lead off double, Bulldog walk and fly out in the fifth.
The Bulldogs had the only hit the rest of the way with an Applegate single in the seventh but the comeback bid ended there.
Bumgarner was the tough luck losing hurler, scattering five hits with one earned run, three strikeouts and three walks.
Talon Rose had the only other Calera hit in the contest.
