BANGOR, Maine — Coastal Landscape of Portland erupted for 15 runs in a final dual at-bats Saturday to strike off Bangor Coffee News 18-4 during a fourth day of play during a state American Legion ball competition during Husson University.
The diversion finished after 8 innings underneath a 10-run rule.
The win by a Zone 3 runners-up sets adult a three-team conflict Sunday for a state championship. Coastal Landscape will face Zone 3 leader and fortifying state champion Yankee Ford of South Portland during 1 p.m., with a leader to face Bangor Coffee News during 4 p.m. for a right to allege to a Northeast informal competition that starts Wednesday during Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.
Yankee Ford stayed alive progressing Saturday with a 9-0 elimination-game feat over Bessey Motors of South Paris.
All 3 survivors have 3-1 annals in a state tournament, though Bangor Coffee News modernized directly to Sunday’s 4 p.m. diversion since it was a final group to humour a initial detriment in a double-elimination event.
Sunday’s unfolding is identical to a final day of a 2016 state tourney, when Yankee Ford faced Rogers Post of Auburn with a leader to face Bangor Coffee News in a final. The South Portland group scored a 7-6 feat in a initial game, afterwards outlasted Bangor Coffee News 5-4 to finish a Comrades’ two-year power as state Legion champion.
By advancing directly to Sunday’s final contest, a Bangor ball module will play in a eighth uninterrupted state championship diversion during possibly a high propagandize or American Legion level. Those teams are 6-1 in those games, with Bangor High School winning a final 4 Class A state championships while a Queen City’s Legion group won state titles in 2014 and 2015.
Such annals were nowhere on a minds of a participants of Saturday’s second game, that played out to a 3-3 stand-off by 6 innings in partial due to a plain starting pitching of Bangor Coffee News left-hander Noah Tappan and Coastal Landscape righty Riley Bartell.
Tappan yielded dual warranted runs on 6 hits over 4 innings, while Bartell came one out brief of pitching a finish diversion before reaching a 120-pitch extent in a bottom of a eighth. Bartell authorised 4 runs on 7 hits with 5 strikeouts, 5 walks and dual strike batters over 7 2/3 innings before Cam Dube came on to get a game’s final out.
Coastal Landscape sent 14 batters to a image in a tip of a seventh and scored 9 unmerited runs to mangle a tie as Bangor Coffee News — that had not committed an blunder in a initial 3 state competition games — had 3 miscues in that inning alone to abet 6 hits, including two-run doubles by Tim Greenlaw and Logan McCarthy.
Coastal Landscape, consisting essentially of players from Cheverus High School, combined 6 some-more runs on 6 hits in a tip of a eighth, with McCarthy conflict his second two-run double in as many innings and Greenlaw blustering a two-run homer good over a right-field blockade during a Winkin Complex.
Greenlaw also singled twice and finished his 4-for-6 day with 4 RBIs and dual runs scored. Teammate Kolby Lambert combined 4 singles to Coastal Landscape’s 19-hit conflict while McCarthy doubled, singled twice, scored 3 times and gathering home 4 runs and John Lynch had 4 walks, a scapegoat fly and 3 runs scored.
Noah Missbrenner led Bangor Coffee News’ seven-hit offense with a double, singular and a travel while Austin Sheehan doubled and Missbrenner, Zach Ireland, Ryan Brookings and Nick Canarr any had an RBI.