Silo and Calera each moved on in the state baseball playoffs while Caddo’s season came to an end just short of the state tournament.
Making its Class 3A postseason debut, Silo rode stellar pitching to three straight shutouts while claiming the regional championship.
Calera cruised by Healdton in dominant fashion to capture the Class 2A district title. Caddo’s quest to return to the Class A state tournament ran into key injuries while dropping a pair of games to Canute to end the season.
Both Silo and Calera will host again this week while trying to punch their state tournament tickets. Silo battles Oklahoma Christian School in the best-of-three super regional starting Wednesday with Calera also tangling with a trio of foes in the regional tournament also beginning Wednesday.
Silo Rebels
Pitching was on full display for the Rebels as they fired three one-hit shutouts on the way to 10-0 and 11-0 wins over Spiro and a 1-0 triumph versus Kiefer.
Britt Salsbury got things rolling by twirling six stellar innings in the opening victory over Spiro, fanning six Bulldogs and walking just one.
Gabe Hernandez sparked the Silo offensive charge with three hits and three batted in while Sam Mendenall posted a double and triple as part of his three hits in the contest as well. Zane Sander also tallied three hits as the Rebels finished with 14.
One run was all it took in a pitching duel against Kiefer with Silo getting just a lone bunt single from Shawn Weaver. The Rebels plated their lone run in the first inning when Sander walked, advanced all the way to third on an error and scored when Mendenall reached on a Trojan error.
That was all starting hurler Landon Langley needed as he dazzled for seven innings, yielding only a bloop single to go with seven strikeouts.
The regional finale saw Hernandez fire five strong frames of the pitching start, striking out five and walking none. Charlie Gardner chipped in two stanzas of scoreless relief.
Gardner was also a key cog at the plate with two hits, including a triple. Sander posted his second straight three-hit outing, driving in two runs.
Daxter Thomas added two hits with one apiece coming from Bryce Vandenburg, Kacey Spaulding, Jaret House, Salsbury, Langley and Weaver.
Calera Bulldogs
Coach Rick Teafatiller’s Bulldogs had little resistance while blasting Healdton for 10-0 and 12-0 run rule decisions.
The opener lasted innings following a scoreless first as Calera took command with a six-run second frame while slicing together singles from Lex Carlton, Talon Rose, Devan Walton, Ryan Dunn, Gary Chaffin and Hazyn Applegate.
That was all the scoring that Logan Bumgarner needed as the sophomore cruised four innings, striking out 10 and allowing only one hit.
Bumgarner added the only extra base hit of the game with a double as Carlton, Walton, Dunn and Chaffin all finished with two singles.
A nine-run opening inning took all suspense out of game two as Calera needed only three innings to end it.
Carlton and Chaffin combined for the pitching shutout with Carlton firing two frames and Chaffin one. They allowed two hits and combined for five strikeouts.
Applegate notched the big offensive performance of the day with three hits of his team’s eight hits. Bumgarner, Cody Langley, Rose, Dunn and Chaffin all contributed one hit.
Caddo Bruins
The eighth-ranked Bruins cruised to a 10-0 win over Binger-Oney in the regional opener with Kale Brister and Boen Proctor combining for a two-hit shutout in the run rule victory. They struck out five and walked three.
Jake McKay had three of Caddo’s seven hits in the contest, driving in two and scoring twice. Proctor tossed in a triple and Jake Green doubled for two RBI.
Hits were much tougher to come by in the first meeting with Canute as the Bruins fell 12-0 as the only two Caddo hits were singles from Coltin Speers and Brister.
Caddo bounced back to eliminate Depew, 10-6, fueled by a stellar pitching effort from McKay, who fired five scoreless innings, yielding only two hits while fanning five.
The Bruins rode a six-run third inning, highlighted by RBI singles by McKay, Colton Hicks and Brister, to take the lead for good with McKay slamming the door the rest of the way. Brister and McKay led the way with two hits each.
In the finale, Caddo dropped a 7-6 extra inning verdict, rallying to tie the game in the sixth with a pair of tallies. Brister and Keaton Herrington notched key singles in the flurry.
Canute struck for a run in the top of the eighth stanza and the Bruins had the tying and winning runs on with two outs in the bottom of the inning before leaving both stranded.
Ryder Wingfield went all eight innings on the mound, scattering nine hits with only four earned runs in addition to six strikeouts. Herrington contributed two of Caddo’s five hits as Green, Speers and Brister all added one.