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BHS likely heading to 3A baseball tourney
Written by: Joel Priest
5/4/2007
All you need to know about Bayfield’s 2007 baseball season was revealed again Monday.
Traveling to Olathe High School, the roller-coaster Wolverines rebounded—sort of—from being swept in a double-header against Pagosa Springs (which followed BHS’ double-header sweep of Rangely), and finished an even 9-9 overall after one more win and one more loss.
The losses to PSHS dropped Bayfield’s Intermountain League record to 2-4, which ended up good for third as Monte Vista crept past up the table by sweeping two from Ignacio last Friday.
MVHS finished 3-3 in the IML (8-9 overall), while the Bobcats dropped to 1-5 (4-11 overall). Pagosa finished 6-0 in league (10-6 overall) to claim the circuit title.
Ignacio’s postseason fate was still up in the air however as of this writing, having one last chance to impress the seeding committee with their non-league season finale against single-A power Dove Creek yesterday at SunUte Field.
But having lost their last six, IHS will need to summon their very best against a ‘Dawg’ pack batting nearly .400 collectively.
Bayfield likely sewed up a seed—albeit a probable away date—in tomorrow’s first round of the Class 3A State Tournament (there is no IML Tournament to decide the loop’s representatives this year) after trouncing Battle Mountain at the sun-baked neutral site.
Ringing up a season-high run total against the hard-luck-to-no-luck Huskies (1-18 overall, 0-14 4A Western Slope League), BHS cruised to a 17-7 win.
Trevor Most earned his first win on the mound in his first start of the season after playing exclusively in the outfield. Marshall Beebe hit 3-4 including a home run, and teammate Logan Funkhouser did likewise to lead the charge against Jason Spannagel’s crew—brought down from the high of winning their first game since 2004 (beating Lake County 9-3 on April 26).
But in the give-and-take struggle that has been Bayfield’s chief nemesis this season, it was Ken Hibbard’s own Wolverines that looked the part of the Huskies against Cedaredge in the first game of the mixed doubleheader, falling 12-0 in five to the red-hot Bruins.
With injuries plaguing the team at the wrong point of the year, BHS managed just three hits (Most, Jamie Tinnin, Jeff Huffmyer) against a squad averaging almost 15 runs per outing in winning eight of their previous ten coming in.
The second inning alone proved the most unnerving, as Bayfield’s bobbles in the field (totaling five) enabled CHS to rack up 11 runs and improve to 15-4 overall (11-3 3A WSL, league runners-up). Michael McGraw took the loss on the hill, slipping to 4-4 as the Wolverines’ workhorse.
The official 3A tourney seeding was finalized after the Times’ deadline. Bayfield’s original regular-season finale, Tuesday at non-league Dolores, was a late scratch off the schedule.
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