Back here at home the Idaho
State Baseball tournament got
underway early this morning,
and there are inaugural season
the Hawaii baseball team wasted
no time getting to state.
Today they opened up with Lewis
and a perennial power from the
north looking to close this
one out future Idaho football player
Cruz Hepburn grounds one toward
shortstop coal roll Meyer Drake Black.
That makes it an outstanding
dig at first to record the out OK
later in the inning with Lewis and
down to their final strike,
two strikes, 2 outs, top of the 7th.
Kyson Barden singles into left field sneak.
In this one passed the second or the
shortstop and 3rd baseman that pulled the
Bengals to within two and put the tying
run on 1st have No Fear.
Jack Ryan will get the final out,
though why he storms into
the state semifinals,
where they will face Mountain View.
On the Evening 5A games
we go Rocky Mountain going
up against fellow Sisc foe Bora.
You know, when Luke Hines woke up
this morning, he was ready to send
the lions into the losers bracket.
The kid was shoving in the
first. He breezes right
through the heart of the order
and there was plenty more where that
came from. Heinz just kind of scatters
five hits. He struck out 11 in the
complete game effort, the Grizz cruise,
past Bora 7 nothing. The final.
Up next timberline,
the defending 5H state champs,
a fair warning for y'all get off the
tracks when the wolves are coming
through senior pitcher Tyler Saunders
was full steam ahead on the hill.
The guys behind him played
really well though too.
You gotta tip their cap to them.
Saunders only gives up
one hit over 7 innings.
Will strike
me out. Six T line is back in the semifinals.
They win 3 nothing tonight.
So in the four eight tournament,
after an upsetting,
the four Way District 3
championship game last week,
the Middleton baseball team had
to get the early wake up call
against Jerome today, 10:00 AM.
First pitch, we pick it up in the third.
That's Triton Sweigert that gets the
free pass with the sacks jacked.
Not gonna lie. The Tigers had a tough
time finding the strike zone the day.
And guess what? When they did,
the results weren't that great for them.
That's Micah Mendiola with the three
run shot to the right center field
gap that would clear the base as
a triple. Mendiola Middleton opens
up state with a 14-1 Mercy rule victory.
You know there were a lot of good
pitching performances today,
though staying in that four
Ray tournament, few were better
than South Paw or Twin Falls southpaw
Nolan Hardesty going up against Pocatello.
We head to the third now and
we'll Louisiana as in the Bayou,
as in by you Hardesty was
simply hard to hit tonight.
Bruins win 71. Alright, up next,
Columbia entered the four A state
tournament on a high after winning
the district crown last week.
This game was nuts and I'm not gonna lie.
I missed a lot of the good
highlights because, well,
I I went to 10 games today.
The Wildcats fans are either
thinking I hate Jay or he's going
to make up for tomorrow when the Wildcats
are playing in the semifinals. I promise
I will. Columbia once was down 5 to nothing.
They rally back thanks to a
Grand Slam from Kaden Kappa.
The Wildcats went in with wild
fashion 96. The final, finally
in the late 4. They state tournament game.
Bishop Kelly would begin their quest
to go back to back against Sandpoint.
Pitching and defense was the
storyline for the Knights and
well they had some offense too,
but that was after I left,
so pitching and defense, right man,
Kade and Casa Grande was big
time at Shorts tonight.
I mean shortstop.
I mean without him, you know,
starting pitcher Colin Dempsey might
have allowed a hit which he didn't do.
That's right a
no no. To start off, state the night's
mercy rule Sandpoint, 10 zip in five OK.
One more highlight for you in the
three A tournament. How about this?
In my decade of covering Idaho baseball,
I don't know if if Fruitland has ever
disappointed at state and guess what
they wouldn't start doing that today
trailing a very good Kimberly team.
Three one in the 4th that Zach
Bidwell that does well on the bump.
Now we go to.
Well offense for Fruitland and the
free pass with the bases loaded.
Yeah, that's never a good result
if you're Kimberly later on,
how about Landon Bushong with
a deep drive to center field?
It would get over his head.
The Greens pushed another
one across they end up.
Pulling the upset, they win 83.
The final they are on to the
three A state semifinals.
We are back in the news
at 10 right after this.