November 23, 2024
HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL

Schenck gets into playoffs with win

EAST MILLINOCKET – Chris Byron’s sacrifice fly in the bottom of the seventh capped a come-from-behind win for Schenck over rival Stearns 5-4 in high school baseball action Wednesday.

The victory helped elevate the Wolverines four spots in the Heal Points standings and catapulted them into the Eastern Maine Class D playoffs against Ashland.

Byron delivered Nick Bishop, who had singled and stolen second and third.

Schenck trailed 4-1 after two innings but got one run back in the fourth and tied it in the sixth on Kerry Thompson’s two-out, two-run single.

Bishop had three singles and four stolen bases and scored twice for Schenck; Josh Brown had a run-scoring single and Byron had a single to go with his sacrifice fly.

Jordan Burleigh had three singles for Stearns of Millinocket. Corey Barnett and Jeff Osborne had two singles each and Travis Deabay tripled.

Stearns (9-7) 130 000 0 – 4 11 0

Schenck (5-9) 010 102 1 – 5 7 2

Martin, Emerson (4) and Emerson, Brown (4); Landry and Viollette

Correction: This article ran on page C4 in the State edition.

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