Perennial power Silo claimed another baseball championship trophy for the case as they swept past Kingston last week to capture the District 3A-5 title.
The Rebels romped to a 10-0 run rule win in the series opener before having to hold off the Redskins in a 2-1 game two thriller.
In the opener, junior Nolan Northcott was in complete command on the mound, scattering five hits over five innings while adding five strikeouts and one walk.
Silo broke a scoreless tie with a run in the third as Blane Beauchamp singled and scored on a Cannon Atwood double. They exploded for five more tallies a frame later to break it wide open spurred by an Aiden McCarty triple. Peyton Scoggin, Beauchamp, Atwood and Northcott all singled and Jacob Wright blasted a two-run homer.
Wright, Atwood and Beauchamp notched two hits apiece in the 10-hit offensive charge.
The second contest was a much tighter affair in a pitcher’s duel as Kingston snagged a 1-0 edge in the second inning. Silo answered back to tie it up by cashing in a walk and one of its two hits in the game on a Reign Scasta single. Zane Sander picked up the RBI on a groundout.
They capitalized on a Kingston error and Northcott single to set the table to eventually score the run on a squeeze bunt from Warner Bradley.
Beauchamp twirled six strong innings, scattering one unearned run on five hits and struck out eight.
Atwood fired the final scoreless frame for the save as he worked out of a bases loaded jam.
Calera Baseball
The Bulldogs posted a pair of impressive wins on the week as they downed Preston (3-1) and Lone Grove (7-3) in festival action.
In the Preston matchup, Zaiden Craige took honors in a pitching duel with Pirate ace Kaden Dean. The Calera righty went all seven innings, yielding one unearned run on four hits as he fanned nine and walked a pair.
Calera rode a three-run fifth inning to victory as they manufactured offensively with singles from Lex Carlton and Talon Rose sandwiched around two walks.
Carlton had a big day at the plate in the Lone Grove decision, contributing a single, double and triple in the process of driving in three runs and scoring once. Craige also finished with two hits.
That proved to be enough support for Gavin Chaffin, who allowed 10 hits but worked out of a couple of jams to hold the Longhorn offense in check.
Colbert Baseball
Three Leopard wins in three contests, including a 9-0 blanking of Plainview, highlighted the week’s action.
Kaden Neill was tremendous in that win over Plainview as he first a one-hit complete game shutout that included eight strikeouts and no walks. If that wasn’t enough he also doubled, homered and drove in three runs. Trevor Jackson also homered and drove in three for Colbert.
