Chris Varone went 2-for-3 with his game-winning walk. Andrew Westbrook pitched five innings with just two earned runs against to keep the Blue Devils in the game. And Victor kept its season alive for at least another week, until next week’s Far West Regional — essentially the New York state quarterfinal — right back at Frontier Field…
What: Section V Class AA sectional final Who: No. 1 seed Victor Blue Devils (17-5) vs. No. 2 seed McQuaid Knights (16-6) When: Saturday, May 26 at 10 a.m. Where: Frontier Field Probable starters Senior righthander Andrew Westbrook will start for Victor, Blue Devils head coach Sean Rucker said after their semifinal win Rucker speculated […]
After a junior-heavy 2017 Victor team had its season cut short by McQuaid — only three players from that Blue Devils team graduated — they remember blowing a big lead. They remember the feeling of the season being over as the Knights went on to win a sectional title. But now a Victor team with 10 seniors gets a do-over…
Ryan O’Mara, on to close the game, faced a bases loaded situation with one out. The tying run was on second. But a groundball to Noah Campanelli at shortstop started a 6-4-3 double play. The Knights escaped, in large part because of two huge defensive plays that Fuller got to celebrate earlier…
After a single led off the fourth inning for the Saints, Daniel Stapleton induced a groundball to shortstop. 6 to 4 to 3, a quick, clean double play, and the leadoff hit was erased. The next inning, Stapleton copied that blueprint with some fielding of his own.
McQuaid’s Erik Johnson cruised through the game’s final six innings after allowing three first-inning runs. Tyler Griggs blew it open with a three-run double in the third. An 8-4 comeback win on Tuesday at Monroe Community College sets McQuaid up for the Class AA semifinal on Thursday against the winner of Wednesday’s Churchville Chili versus Penfield game…
Putney’s complete game performance was just the outing 11-seed Churchville needed to pull off an upset of six-seed Webster Thomas, 4-3, at Basket Road Field on Monday evening, in the Class AA first round…
The win means that the five-seeded Warriors face off with fourth-seeded Fairport on Tuesday at Fairport…
Class AA opens play on Monday with each of the top-four seeds receiving byes. The final takes place on Saturday, May 26. McQuaid, this year’s two seed, is Class AA’s defending champion…
Class A1 opens play on Monday, with each of the top-two seeds receiving byes. The playoff culminates with a final on Saturday, May 26. Class A1’s defending champion is this year’s top seed, Canandaigua…