SEASIDE SLOGS TO STATE
In a very truncated district tournament, the Seaside Seagulls knocked off Warrenton and Knappa on Saturday to earn a berth in the Oregon Junior Baseball Association State Tournament in Eugene.
What was scheduled to be a 6-7 game double elimination tournament featuring four teams over three days was limited to essentially ten innings of ugly baseball from three teams on a soppy Aiken Field on Saturday.
After Friday's opening games were washed out, coaches met Saturday morning to bash out an improvised stepladder single-elimination tournament. Even that didn't make it to fruition thanks to mother nature.
Warrenton, seeded third, suffered through an embarrasing 19-9, 5-inning loss to the Gulls Saturday afternoon. The game came down to a disastrous third inning for Warrenton, in which the pitching-strapped Warriors gave up 11 walks, two hit batters, three errors and six Seagulls hits as 23 batters came to the plate and 18 crossed it, annihilating what was a 2-1 Warrenton lead.
Lefthander Michael Moore took the loss, lifted after facing nine batters in the third. Buddy Davis came on in relief and could not locate the strike zone, walking four batters, hitting one and giving up a 2-run double to Dylan Peters. Austin Schneider greeted sophomore righthander Cameron Hackwith with another 2-run double as the Gulls put the game well out of reach.
Peters finished 3-for-4 with three runs batted in and two runs scored. Peter Shepherd went 0-for-2 at the plate, but walked three times, scoring four runs. Ian Dueber had one of three 2-run doubles for the Gulls in the fateful third.
Shepherd's squeeze bunt in the top of the fifth inning brought home the tying run for the Seagulls in a 7-6 come-from-behind victory over Knappa.
The Loggers carried a 5-3 lead into the fifth and final inning as the field conditions became increasingly Katrina-like. Gary Aho began the inning by walking four consecutive batters to pull the Gulls within one before Shepherd's bunt. A potential inning-ending double play ground ball turned into an error as the Gulls pushed what turned out to be a key insurance run across.
Knappa would tally in their final at bat, as Joe Strickland singled and scored, but with the tying run at third base Karac Anderson grounded into a 6-4 fielder's choice to end the game and the season for the Loggers in crushingly disappointing fashion.
The most disappointed group may have been Astoria, which never got to take the field this weekend. The Fishermen, the defending OJBA Division II State champs, will carry the number one seed to next week's tournament, which commences Thursday at Pleasant Hill High School and Marist High School in Eugene.
What was scheduled to be a 6-7 game double elimination tournament featuring four teams over three days was limited to essentially ten innings of ugly baseball from three teams on a soppy Aiken Field on Saturday.
After Friday's opening games were washed out, coaches met Saturday morning to bash out an improvised stepladder single-elimination tournament. Even that didn't make it to fruition thanks to mother nature.
Warrenton, seeded third, suffered through an embarrasing 19-9, 5-inning loss to the Gulls Saturday afternoon. The game came down to a disastrous third inning for Warrenton, in which the pitching-strapped Warriors gave up 11 walks, two hit batters, three errors and six Seagulls hits as 23 batters came to the plate and 18 crossed it, annihilating what was a 2-1 Warrenton lead.
Lefthander Michael Moore took the loss, lifted after facing nine batters in the third. Buddy Davis came on in relief and could not locate the strike zone, walking four batters, hitting one and giving up a 2-run double to Dylan Peters. Austin Schneider greeted sophomore righthander Cameron Hackwith with another 2-run double as the Gulls put the game well out of reach.
Peters finished 3-for-4 with three runs batted in and two runs scored. Peter Shepherd went 0-for-2 at the plate, but walked three times, scoring four runs. Ian Dueber had one of three 2-run doubles for the Gulls in the fateful third.
Shepherd's squeeze bunt in the top of the fifth inning brought home the tying run for the Seagulls in a 7-6 come-from-behind victory over Knappa.
The Loggers carried a 5-3 lead into the fifth and final inning as the field conditions became increasingly Katrina-like. Gary Aho began the inning by walking four consecutive batters to pull the Gulls within one before Shepherd's bunt. A potential inning-ending double play ground ball turned into an error as the Gulls pushed what turned out to be a key insurance run across.
Knappa would tally in their final at bat, as Joe Strickland singled and scored, but with the tying run at third base Karac Anderson grounded into a 6-4 fielder's choice to end the game and the season for the Loggers in crushingly disappointing fashion.
The most disappointed group may have been Astoria, which never got to take the field this weekend. The Fishermen, the defending OJBA Division II State champs, will carry the number one seed to next week's tournament, which commences Thursday at Pleasant Hill High School and Marist High School in Eugene.
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