{"id":27933,"date":"2017-04-04T15:19:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T19:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.duvalsports.com\/?p=27933"},"modified":"2017-04-04T15:19:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T19:19:41","slug":"stanton-baldwin-move-on-to-gateway-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duvalsports.com\/?p=27933","title":{"rendered":"Stanton, Baldwin move on to Gateway Quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NORTHSIDE-Stanton and Baldwin both shook off sluggish starts\u00a0before finally pulling away from their opponents to advance to the quarterfinals of the Gateway Conference Baseball tournament Monday\u00a0at historic\u00a0JP Small Park.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duvalsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/JP-Small-Park.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27936\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-27936\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duvalsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/JP-Small-Park-300x119.jpg\" alt=\"JP Small Park\" width=\"814\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.duvalsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/JP-Small-Park-300x119.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.duvalsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/JP-Small-Park-768x305.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.duvalsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/JP-Small-Park-1024x407.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 814px) 100vw, 814px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Playing on the field built in 1912 that Babe Ruth played on and Jackie\u00a0Robinson was prohibited from playing on was a special treat for Englewood, Baldwin,\u00a0Lee and host\u00a0Stanton.<\/p>\n<p>Englewood didn&#8217;t seem intimidated by Stanton at first taking an early 1-0\u00a0lead in the top of the first\u00a0as Onyx Garcia singled up the middle, stole second, reached third on a pop up and scored on Chad Weaver squeeze bunt.<\/p>\n<p>From that point on that was all the Rams would threat and were held scoreless the rest of the game thanks to solid pitching of Jordan\u00a0Briones and Jack Tenhulzen.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Devils scored in every inning but the first adding\u00a0to their lead with a run in the third, two in the fourth, one in the fifth and one in the sixth for the\u00a08-1 win in the nightcap.<\/p>\n<p>Stanton tied it\u00a0and took the lead for good on a three run\u00a0bottom of the second\u00a0on Jack Harris RBI single past first base. Leadoff hitter Trey Calhoun came through with the clutch hit\u00a0with a 2 RBI double\u00a0giving\u00a0the Devils a 3-1 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Koren knocked in two more runs\u00a0after an error on the right fielder\u00a0plated two more runs and 6-1 lead in the fourth inning.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Castro RBI single to left in the fifth and David Rivera RBI single to right center field in the sixth gave the Devils an 8-1 lead in the seventh.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_27935\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27935\" style=\"width: 814px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duvalsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Baldwin-Baseball.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27935\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-27935\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duvalsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Baldwin-Baseball-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Baldwin players wait for the game to begin in their Gateway Conference tournament opener against Lee.  \" width=\"814\" height=\"1085\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.duvalsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Baldwin-Baseball-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.duvalsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Baldwin-Baseball-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.duvalsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Baldwin-Baseball.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 814px) 100vw, 814px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27935\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Baldwin players wait for the game to begin in their Gateway Conference tournament opener against Lee.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Baldwin 5, Lee 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the first game\u00a0of the\u00a0day,\u00a0ahead just 1-0 in the\u00a0sixth inning,\u00a0Baldwin put it away scoring two runs\u00a0each in the final two innings to escape with a 5-1 win over Lee.<\/p>\n<p>Colton McCree led off the sixth inning with a\u00a0single to left field\u00a0and stole second before lightning sent both teams to their dugouts and into a lengthy weather delay.<\/p>\n<p>With each lightning strike, twenty minutes was added\u00a0to the delay not to mention the brief\u00a0rain shower\u00a0which dampened the field.<\/p>\n<p>When played resumed McCree\u00a0was\u00a0on second and\u00a0Connor Aspinwall walked putting runners on first and\u00a0second with no outs.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Cook reached safely on a fielders choice as Aspinwall\u00a0was tagged out at second putting runners on the corners. Cook stole second and McCree and Cooke both scored on\u00a0a ball that rolled through the Lee first baseman&#8217;s legs\u00a0off the bat of Dakota Peeler.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead 3-0, the Indians added to their lead in the top of the seventh as well as Kaivon\u00a0Kohn reached on an fielders choice and scored on Carrington Lockett\u00a0RBI single over second base. McCree followed\u00a0reaching on base with an error by the Generals shortstop which scored Lockett\u00a0giving\u00a0the Indians a 5-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Lee wouldn&#8217;t go away quietly though in the bottom of the seventh as Jeff Scarlett singled past third, Q Newman walked and Amari Fedd singled to right to load the\u00a0bases with one out.<\/p>\n<p>Corey\u00a0McCormick singled past third\u00a0scoring Scarlett cutting the lead to 5-1 and keeping the bases still loaded. However Dakota Goodman struck out John Davis\u00a0to end the game advancing the Indians to the\u00a0quarterfinals of the Gateway Conference tournament.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>at Mandarin<\/p>\n<p>4-Baldwin vs Parker<\/p>\n<p>7-Stanton vs Mandarin<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>at Sandalwood<\/p>\n<p>4-Paxon vs Fletcher<\/p>\n<p>7-Atlantic Coast vs Sandalwood<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NORTHSIDE-Stanton and Baldwin both shook off sluggish starts\u00a0before finally pulling away from their opponents to advance to the quarterfinals of the Gateway Conference Baseball tournament Monday\u00a0at historic\u00a0JP Small Park. &nbsp; Playing on the field built in 1912 that Babe Ruth played on and Jackie\u00a0Robinson was prohibited from playing on was a special treat for Englewood, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":624,"featured_media":27934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[140],"tags":[85,104,79,73,303],"class_list":["post-27933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-school-baseball","tag-baldwin","tag-englewood","tag-lee","tag-stanton","tag-top-stories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.duvalsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Stanton-Baseball.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duvalsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duvalsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duvalsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duvalsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duvalsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duvalsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duvalsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duvalsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duvalsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duvalsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}