Bears advance to state final four baseball

BREWSTER – The Bears varsity baseball captured the regional title and advanced to the state final four playoffs with a pair of wins last Saturday, May 21, over Warden, 10-2, and Kalama, 3-0.

Head coach Todd Phillips said he is “super stoked to be heading to the final four again. Three straight trips for the squad to the final four, guaranteeing some hardware.”

Phillips said Kalama was a good team, perhaps the best the Bears have faced all year.

“We knew this game was going to be a dog fight going in,” Phillips said and picked up the inning-by-inning action from there:

We threw the first punch when Reese Vassar singled with one out, stole second and scored on Tyson Schertenleib’s two-out single. Kalama wasn’t expecting us to come out and hang one on them in the first inning.

We added another run in the third when Grant Baker led off with a single, stole second, advanced on a great two-strike bunt by Nico Maldonado (he did it on his own, that should tell you a lot about the selflessness of this team), then scored on the Vassar sacrifice fly. 

In the top of the seventh Eric Ramirez doubled with one out, advanced on a ground out, and scored on a bloop single by Blake Burgett.

Kalama threatened a few times. When they did get a player to third, we picked him off. 

Stats

1      2      3      4      5      6      7      R     H     E 

Kalama           0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      2      0 

Brewster  1      0      1      0      0      0      1      3      5      0 

W-AJ Woodward (8-1) 

L-Noah Imbode 

S-None 

2B-Brewster: Eric Ramirez (7); Warden: None 

3B- None 

HR-None 

 Warden mauled

“This was a fun game of baseball,” Phillips said of the lopsided win and recapped the win:

Vassar and Woodward reached base on errors and both scored on Brady Wulf’s single. Brady would score on the Eric Ramirez single. 

In the second, Burgett led off with a walk, stole second and scored on a sacrifice fly by Vassar. Maldonado reached first on a walk, Woodward reached via fielder’s choice and Schertenleib reached on an error, all three scored via errors.

Warden broke up the shutout in the third. We got the run back in our half of the inning when Arnie Arevalo reached base on an error, was sacrificed over by Burgett and scored on a Braiden Westerdahl ground out.

We added another in the fourth when Woodward tripled with one out and scored on a Schertenleib ground out. 

We added another in the sixth when Vassar singled, stole second, advanced to third on a Woodward sacrifice fly and scored on Schertenleib’s double. 

Warden added one run, although it wasn’t enough to help them make this game interesting.

 Stats

1      2      3      4      5      6      7      R     H     E 

Warden           0      0      1      0      0      0      1      2      2      7 

Brewster  3      4      1      1      0      1      X     10    7      2 

W-Reese Vassar (5-1) 

L-Zach Elizade 

S-None 

2B-Brewster: Tyson Schertenleib (7); Warden: None 

3B-Brewster: AJ Woodward (2); Warden: None 

HR-None