Mustangs down ‘Canes for title
ABERDEEN — The C.M. Wright Mustangs completed a perfect baseball season with a 4-1 win over the Huntingtown Hurricanes in the 3A championship game Saturday night at Ripken Stadium.
Taking advantage of an early Huntingtown (20-5) error, Wright scored its first run on an infield grounder in the top of the first. In the third, again taking advantage of a couple of Huntingtown miscues, the Mustangs added two more runs to increase the lead to 3-0 and give more than enough cushion to Georgia Tech-bound pitcher Brad Markey.
Through five innings, Markey allowed just two runners on base – one base hit and one walk. In the bottom of the sixth, Huntingtown’s bats finally came alive with two outs as Joe Karbowsky, Brian Warner and Chris Gaines put together consecutive singles. Gaines’ base knock to right drove home Karbowsky with the Hurricanes’ first run, but Warner was cut down attempting to advance to third to kill the rally. Markey then worked through a scoreless seventh to nail down the first state title in Wright program history. The Mustangs finished the year 23-0.
Markey allowed one run on five hits, walked one and struck out seven.
Matt Beyer started for Huntingtown and worked six innings. The Hurricanes ace surrendered four runs — three unearned — on six hits, walked two and struck out seven. Joey Strain came on to work a scoreless seventh.
The runner-up finish was the second for the Hurricanes in the last five years. Huntingtown also reached the 2006 state final.
C.M. Wright 4, Huntingtown 1
C 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 – 4 7 0
H 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 – 1 5 3
WP: Markey, LP: Beyer
2B — Dippel (C)
Full story will appear in June 9 edition of the Calvert Independent.
E-mail Andy States at astates@smacsportsnet.com
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