Winning pitcher Taylor Glaze led off the bottom of the sixth inning with a single but was out on Scott Windler's fielder's choice. Reed Drysdale singled and two wild pitches allowed Windler to score.
Glaze (5-2) allowed four hits, struck out five and had two of Central Catholic's four hits.
Scecina edged CC 3-2 in the nightcap.Singles by Billy Fusiek and Danny Anthrop opened the CC seventh. A sacrifice bunt by Cole Hruskovich advanced the runners into scoring position, forcing Guerin to intentionally walk Taylor Glaze.
A wild pitch allowed Fusiek to score the tying run, and the winning run came home when Bobillo's fly ball to left was dropped.
CC continues Catholic Classic play today with an 11 a.m. game against Danville (Ill.) Schlarman and a 6:30 contest with Scecina.Brett Haan (5-0) allowed one earned run on three hits over six innings while striking out six.
Blake Surber went 2-for-2 with an RBI single for Clinton Central.
JCOnline: As the first flicker of a rally ignited beneath Central Catholic's baseball team Thursday night, senior shortstop Chas Bobillo played the rest of the seventh inning out in his head."When I was in the on-deck circle, I was thinking there was no way I wasn't going to get the hit," Bobillo said. "I was just really confident up there."
Everything happened just as Bobillo imagined. His single to left field drove in Taylor Glaze with the winning run in Class A No. 3 Central Catholic's 3-2 victory over Lafayette Jeff at Leming Field.
Glaze (4-2), who struck out a career-high 15, won a pitching duel against Jeff's Tyler Robbins, who had scored the go-ahead run in the top of the seventh.
"I love these close games," said Glaze, who outdueled McCutcheon's Shane Bryant in a 3-2 victory a week earlier. "It just brings such a better atmosphere to the game. It gets your adrenaline rushing and you're focused, you're zoned in, and it makes it that much more fun."
Robbins (2-2), who had not pitched since April 24 due to a back injury, allowed a run on four hits over the first six innings. The junior right-hander retired the first two Knights (15-3) in the seventh and had a 3-2 count on Cole Hruskovich before a walk started the CC rally.
For the sixth time, the Bronchos (11-9) lost a game that was decided in the seventh inning.
"We've got to bear down in the seventh inning and finish a game," Robbins said. "It hurts to lose to CC, but losing it in the seventh inning is worse."
After Hruskovich's walk, Glaze singled to right center. Hruskovich scored the tying run from second on Scott Windler's single to left, and Reed Drysdale drew a walk to load the bases.
Bobillo lined Robbins' first pitch foul down the left field line, then smacked the next one between third base and shortstop.
"I was excited," Bobillo said. "There was no doubt in my mind I was going to get the hit."Every Jeff starter except Adams struck out at least once. and the Bronchos left nine runners on, including six in scoring position.
"The way we play baseball, moving runners around and doing things like that, you've got to cut the strikeouts down to seven or lower and put the ball in play," Jeff coach Scott McTagertt said.
"We put the ball in play a couple of times, and they made an error on it. Put the ball in play -- that's all it takes in high school baseball, and we just didn't get it done."
Glaze struck out the side in the third and fourth and fanned two batters in four other innings. The senior left-hander threw 141 pitches in the complete-game victory.
"I was asking my guys, get me runs, and they got me just enough," Glaze said."What'd he go, 4-for-4," Glaze asked. "I was getting kind of frustrated over there."
The ultimate frustration belonged to the Mavericks. Glaze stranded Fankhauser in scoring position for the fourth time in the seventh while preserving Class A No. 3 Central Catholic's 3-1 victory over McCutcheon at Gordon Leming Field.
The rest of the Mavericks managed only three singles against Glaze (3-2).
"If he pitched in our conference, he'd be one of the top pitchers in our conference -- he's that good," said Fankhauser, who is 7-for-13 in three games over the past three days. "This is almost like their Super Bowl, and they want to beat McCutcheon. We need to match their intensity. It's great that we can see their ace so we don't have a game off."
While the wind blew out throughout Friday's game, Glaze and McCutcheon junior Shane Bryant quickly locked into a pitcher's duel. Bryant (1-2) allowed only four hits.
But the Mavericks (11-6) couldn't capitalize on their chances against Glaze and stranded 10 runners, including six in scoring position. Central Catholic's Cole Hruskovich singled home Jake Churchill in the third and scored on Scott Windler's double, giving the Knights a sufficient 3-0 lead.
"We couldn't get the big hit," McCutcheon coach Jake Burton said. "They got the big hits in the third inning. We gave them a run in the second, but other than that it was a pretty good ballgame."
Zach Tippy's RBI single with two out in the sixth spoiled Glaze's shutout bid. Fankhauser doubled with one out in the seventh, and Glaze hit Cody Strong with a pitch to bring the go-ahead run to the plate.
But Bryan Chenoweth and Gaven Schreckengast both flew out to right field, and CC secured its eighth straight victory. Glaze hoped to avoid a repeat of Thursday's night's slugfest, in which CC defeated Kokomo 17-7.
"If I hang anything, they're going to take it for a ride, like last night," Glaze said. "That was my game plan: keep it low, and hopefully they hit some ground balls."Central Catholic's Chas Bobillo picked the right time to hit his first career home run. The third-inning grand slam off of Kokomo reliever Phillip Kuhns all but put the game out of reach.
When the Wildkats threatened to come back with two runs in the fourth inning, Bobillo relived starter Austin Munn and shut hard-hitting Kokomo out over the final 2 2/3 innings.
Central Catholic coach Tim Bordenet said while he wasn't worried about Kokomo's early four-run lead, he knew that the Knights could not allow the advantage to linger.
"With the wind blowing the way it was, you knew you weren't out of the game," Bordenet said. "Kokomo is a very good team and we knew when they scored those runs we had to answer them. We didn't have to get them all back at the same time, but we had to respond."
Weir's two-run homer and Devin Schacht's two-run double provided the Wildkats their early edge.
Kokomo starter Nick Lorenc opened the first by walking Cole Hruskovich and Taylor Glaze. After Scott Windler singled, Lorenc walked Reed Drysdale to score the Knights first run. Reliever Pete Keyes came in and threw a wild pitch to score Glaze.
"This game was frustrating because we didn't pitch well," said Kokomo coach Steve Edwards. "We put a kid out there and hoped he'd pitch well and he didn't. Central Catholic's a great team but we're a good team, too, and we just didn't bring it today."
Weir hit his second home run of the game in the second inning, crushing an 0-1 pitch over the left field wall to increase Kokomo's lead to 5-2.
The Knights made it all back at the bottom of the inning by stringing together six singles. Windler's two-run single and run-scoring hits by Bobillo, Munn and Jason Aldridge gave the Knights a 7-5 edge.
"We have confidence against anyone we play, but playing a big team like this will certainly boost our confidence even more," said Bobillo, who finished the game with five RBIs. "That's a big win for a little Class A school like us."
Central Catholic tacked on four more runs in the fifth inning and two in the sixth inning to end the game on the 10-run rule. Windler finished the game with four hits while Hruskovich had three hits. Glaze drew walks in all five of his at-bats and scored four times.Scott Windler's three-run home run highlighted a five-run first inning and sparked Class A No. 5 Central Catholic's 22-3 rout of No. 1 Frontier.
Windler homered twice and scored five runs, Reed Drysdale hit a grand slam and drove in six runs, and the Knights (5-3) took command early by building a 13-0 lead. A year ago, CC squandered a 5-0 first-inning lead in a loss to the Falcons.
"After it was 5-0, coach (Tim Bordenet) told us it was just like last year, and we've got to just keep hitting," Windler said. "So we did."
Frontier (10-1) won the teams' last two regular-season meetings, 17-11 and 9-8. But the Falcons could not keep pace against Knights starter Austin Munn (2-0).
The sophomore struck out 11 and allowed only four hits over five innings.
"I was really nervous all day sitting in school," Munn said. "I could barely handle it. I came out here and just stayed focused, and that first inning helped me out a lot. Those first two strikeouts got my focus in there, and I calmed down."
Frontier committed two errors in the first inning and four in the first three. Falcon pitchers gave CC nine baserunners with walks or hit batsmen. Frontier's lineup hit only one ball out of the infield in the first three innings: a flyout to center field.
"It should jolt us, get our attention, because we certainly gave up too many runs and just weren't ready to play from the start," Frontier coach Ryan Long said. "We'll come back tomorrow, hopefully learn from it and get back after it."
Munn's two-run single keyed a four-run second inning. Travis Demerly (3-1), making his third start against CC in as many years, was chased by a four-run third inning.
Ryan DeBoy's three-run home run and Drysdale's slam came in a nine-run fifth inning. The offensive explosion came at an opportune time for the Knights, who managed one run on three hits in losses to Mishawaka Marian and Cathedral on Saturday.
"After our two losses at Mishawaka, we were determined and focused," Windler said.
SHARPSVILLE -- Taylor Glaze and Nick Stone combined on a two-hitter, and Class A No. 3 Central Catholic shut out Tri-Central 11-0 Tuesday.Cody Slate, Payton Smith and Michael Carnahan all drew one-out walks against the Class A No. 3 Knights (1-1). One out later, Harrison leadoff man Joe Dinkle grounded a ball up the middle that got through CC second baseman Danny Anthrop and allowed two runs to score.
Slate earned the victory in relief of Vonn Richards, who allowed one earned run in five innings. Taylor Glaze took the loss for CC, despite allowing a run on four hits entering the seventh.
Finally!! My son Nick has finally hit his 1st home run since reaching the high school level. In a JV game, he had bases loaded against Delphi & on the 1st pitch he sends a line drive shot over the left field wall for a grand slam.
