WESTWOOD – For the second time in three years, Xaverian has itself a convention baseball championship
After seeing BC High rating two within the prime of the eighth, Xaverian rallied for 3 within the backside as Cam Grindle crushed a walk-off two-run residence run to raise the Hawks to a Catholic Conference championship, 3-2, over the Eagles on Wednesday afternoon.
In 2021, the Hawks (11-5) additionally clinched the Catholic Conference title over a BC High with a walk-off residence run, that one by Justice Ciampa.
“Just a great baseball game in every respect,” Xaverian coach Gerry Lambert stated. “This is a tremendous achievement by our guys. Pure talent wise after our top two-three guys we are not one of the 10 best teams in the state, but we are one of the toughest 10 teams in the state.”
Over the primary seven innings the sport mirrored classic Catholic Conference duels from the league’s wooden bat days. BC High’s Sam Keene went the primary six shutout innings, placing out 10, whereas Xaverian starter Josh Gauvain fired seven scoreless with six strikeouts.
With the sport turned over to the bullpens because it transitioned to further innings, BC High jumped in entrance. An Andrew Manning RBI single put the Eagles up 1-0 and Jackson Morse adopted it up with an RBI hit of his personal to make it 2-0.
In the underside half of the inning, although, the Hawks countered immediately. After working the depend full, Charlie Comella lined a leadoff double to proper and moments later Michael Oates grounded an RBI single to left to trim the deficit to at least one.
That introduced Grindle to the plate. He drove the primary pitch he noticed to proper center-field for a walk-off two-run blast to ship Xaverian right into a frenzy.
“That was just so exciting,” Lambert stated with an enormous smile. “You cannot hit a two-run home run with no one on base. There is an unsung hero in Charlie Comella, who works the count full to begin the bottom of the eighth inning and gets on base. That changes the whole tenor of the inning. And Cam comes through with the heroics.”
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