WESTFORD — As Matthew Morash slid below Jack Blaine’s tag, the Westford Academy baseball workforce poured out of the dugout in celebration. Even a two-day marathon couldn’t cease its undefeated season.
Jake Cullen threw 5.2 innings of 1 run baseball out of the bullpen whereas additionally delivering the game-tying double and Kevin Fitzgerald hit the walkoff sacrifice fly as WA outlasted Chelmsford, 3-2, in 11 innings to stay undefeated on Thursday afternoon.
Thursday’s play was a continuation of the sport which started Wednesday earlier than being halted within the backside of the sixth inning as a consequence of rain. Chelmsford led 1-0 on the time of the stoppage.
“A tip off the cap to Chelmsford. They did not lose, we just scored an extra run today,” Westford Academy coach Mike Parent mentioned. “Today was a great, emotional game. Our guys haven’t quit all year and it showed this afternoon.”
When play resumed Thursday it didn’t take lengthy for Westford (17-0) to even the rating. A two-out stroll put the tying run on and Morash drove an RBI double to left to tie the sport 1-1.
Cullen and Chelmsford reliever Caleb Stuart then adopted the act of Morash and Matthew Stuart from Wednesday, as they marched zeroes till the eleventh.
In the decisive body, Chelmsford grabbed a 2-1 lead as a throwing error arrange an RBI hit by Ryan Clark that put the guests on prime.
Westford, nonetheless, acquired the final snicker. An error began the stanza and a wild pitch coupled with an intentional stroll put two on with one out.
That set the stage for Cullen, who helped himself out with a tying double down the precise subject to even the sport 2-2. Two batters later – after an intentional stroll loaded the bases – Fitzgerald flied a ball to medium depth. Morash tagged up and broke for the plate and slid simply across the tag to maintain the Ghosts undefeated.
“I thought I was safe and got around it,” Morash mentioned. “We’re just trying to take an approach of focusing on what’s in front of us and playing our best game of the season each time we play.”
The sport was scoreless on Wednesday for the primary 5 innings earlier than a Caleb Stuart security squeeze introduced residence the primary run of the sport within the prime of the sixth. Lions starter Matthew Stuart threw 5 hitless innings to start the competition however couldn’t return Thursday as a consequence of pitch depend.
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