Saturday, May 19, 2007

SEAGULLS ADVANCE TO SECOND ROUND

Another late charge from Seaside boosted the Gulls into the second round of the OSAA 4A State Baseball Tournament.

Seaside blew open a close game with five runs in the fifth inning and five more in the sixth to defeat the Sweet Home Huskies 12-6 at Broadway Field Friday night. Seaside earned a ticket south to face the highly regarded Henley Hornets on Tuesday at Kiger Field in Klamath Falls.

Seaside (14-13) needed a late rally in its final regular season game against Scappoose just to make the playoffs. Now they will go for the upset to try to reach the quarterfinals.

Will Beatty and Mark Thysell led the way at the plate, with each going 3-for-4 with an extra base hit. Sophomore third baseman Jeremy Carow hit the first home run of his varsity career.

Henley (24-2) was the Skyline conference champion and was ranked third in Oregon behind Newport and Astoria in the final 4A coaches' poll.

In other first round 4A baseball playoffs games: Hidden Valley defeated Philomath 14-4 in a game that was called after five innings. The Mustangs head to Gladstone Tuesday with the winner meeting the Astoria-South Umpqua winner in Friday's quarterfinal round. North Bend defeated Molalla 12-5 and McLoughlin topped Elmira 6-2.

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