⚾ Class 7A-District 7 Semifinal ⚾

#8 Sumner 5
Newsome 0

Sumner senior Ethan DeJesus tossed a complete-game no-hitter with a career-best 15 strikeouts to put the Stingrays into Friday’s district championship game against top-seed Strawberry Crest. DeJesus, who is now 8-2 on the year with a 1.58 ERA, leads Florida pitchers with 109 strikeouts. Isaiah Romano doubled in two runs in the first inning; Braylon Disla singled in a pair in the fifth, and Kalob Williams singled in the Stingrays’ final run.

N 000|000|0 – |0|0|1
S 200|030|x – |5|7|0
W – DeJesus (8-2); L – Calabria (2-5)
2B – Romano (S); 3B – Pennant (S). Records – N (9-16); S (17-7).

⚾ Class 7A-District 7 Semifinal ⚾

#6 Strawberry Crest 4
Plant City 3

Strawberry Crest sophomore Bubba Blount took over in a tied game in the fourth inning and gave his team three no-hit innings of relief, issuing one walk and striking out three. In the sixth got going with a Jaxon Beattie single, a walk and an intentional walk to load the bases, and Josh Cespedes sent a ground ball to the right side to drive in a run and another scored on a Plant City error – giving the Chargers the cushion needed to hold off the Raiders in the final inning and advance to Friday’s district championship game, where Crest will host Sumner. A Reuben Vasquez RBI sac fly in the second and a Yusvanny Parra RBI ground out gave the Chargers an early lead, but Plant City answered with three-straight singles in the fourth – Max Cieslo (2-for-3) singling in Drew Cothren, and Alex Rodrigues scoring on a wild pitch. The Raiders took two walks in the seventh off of Chargers closer Saxon Shah, and got a run across on a passed ball, before Shah ended the game with a strikeout.

P 000|200|1 – |3|4|3
S 011|002|x – |4|5|0
W – Blount (4-0); L – Smith (2-2); S – Shah (2)
2B – Highsmith (S). Records – P (16-10); S (19-6).

⚾ Class 2A-District 9 Semifinal ⚾

#5 Tampa Catholic 8
Carrollwood Day 2

Christian Serralles’ two-run double in the second inning gave Tampa Catholic the lead for good and booked the Crusaders a spot in Thursday’s district championship. Senior Cole Bitman was 2-for-4 with a three-run homer; Brayden Beauchaine went 2-for-3, with two runs and an RBI; and Finn Fluker pitched 4 2/3 innings, allowed two runs, and struck out three. Carrollwood Day took a first-inning lead with a pair of runs – a Luke Anderson solo home run, followed by a double by Matty Coniglio and an RBI single by Beck Meier.

C 200|000|0 – |2|7|3
T 031|310|x – |8|8|0
W – Fluker (4-1); L – Meier (2-3)
2B – Coniglio (C); Serralles, Smythe (T); HR – Anderson (C); Bitman (T). Records – C (9-17); T (21-5).

⚾ Class 2A-District 9 Semifinal ⚾

#2 Berkeley Prep 5
Bishop McLaughlin 0

Berkeley Prep junior Jett Walters pitched 6 1/3 innings of shutout baseball, allowing two hits and three walks, while striking out seven to earn his sixth win of the year. The Buccaneers got all they would need from a two-run blast by senior Josh Herrmann in the third inning – his fifth homer of the year; Lucas Farrar was 2-for-3 with a double and two runs scored; and Riley Zinober was 1-for-2 with a run scored. Berkeley Prep will be the visitors on the scoreboard as the host No. 1-seed Tampa Catholic in Thursday’s district championship.

BM 000|000|0 – |0|2|3
BP 002|102|x – |5|5|3
W – Walters (6-2); L – Thalleen
2B – Farrar (B); HR – Herrmann (B). Records – BM (12-13); BP (21-5).

⚾ Class 2A-District 10 Semifinal ⚾

Clearwater Central Catholic 10
#9 Bell Creek 3

CCC’s Cooper Riley was 3-for-3 with a homer, two doubles and a walk, drove in three and scored twice, as the top-seeded Marauders advanced to Friday’s district final with a win over the Panthers. Dylan Monile led off the game with a single, advanced to third on an error and scored the game’s first run on an Austin Snyder single. Monile went 4-for-5 with two RBI and two runs scored; Zach Wheeler pitched six innings, allowed three runs (all unearned) and struck out four. Ethan Pederson was 2-for-3 with a run scored for Bell Creek; and Kyle Beauchamp was 1-for-1 with a walk and scored twice.

B 000|020|1 – |3|4|2
C 205|120|x – |10|14|2
W – Wheeler (4-1); L – Miller (4-2)
2B – Monile, Riley 2, Ficca (C); HR – Riley (C). Records – B (17-4-2); C (15-8).

⚾ Class 2A-District 10 Semifinal ⚾

Tampa Prep 7
St. Pete Catholic 1

Tampa Prep senior Liam Akins struck out nine and allowed one run in a complete-game effort leading the Terrapins to a district final berth against top seed CCC on Friday. Luc Thornton hit a double in the first inning and Aikens drew a walk – and both turned into early runs to put the Terrapins ahead. Akins was 1-for-3 with an RBI double; Dennis Martino was 2-for-4 with two RBI and a run scored; Tyler Kin went 2-for-3 with a run; and Grant Brooks was 1-for-2 with two walks and an RBI in the win. Jared Samon was 2-for-3 with a run scored for the Barons, and Grayson Barlow singled in the lone run in the sixth inning.

S 000|001|0 – |1|6|4
T 202|201|x – |7|8|0
W – Akins (3-3); L – Marroquin
2B – Aikens, Thornton (T). Records – S (11-145); T (12-13).

⚾ Class 3A-District 9 Semifinal ⚾

Jefferson 6
Chamberlain 5

Jefferson held back the Storm for a one-run semifinal victory and locked up a place in Friday’s district final against Lakeland McKeel. Four extra-base hits in the third inning helped the Dragons build an early lead with Kaleb Cherry hitting a one-out triple, Ethan Savinon doubling in a run, Sam Hyman immediately trading places with his own RBI double, and Elijah Benton doubling in a run in succession. Savinon (2-for-3) added a bases-loaded walk to the tally; John Oliver was 2-for-4; and Manny Baez was 1-for-3 with an RBI. Chamberlain didn’t go away however, as a pair of errors turned into two runs and chased Hyman from the mound (Win, 5.2ip, 5 H, 0 ER, 2 BB, 6 K). Brennan Kay went 2-for-4 with an RBI double for the Storm; and Aidan Felix pitched 2 2/3 innings of scoreless relief with four strikeouts. The win was No. 100 for Jefferson head coach Spencer Nunez.

C 000|012|2 – |5|6|2
J  013|200|x – |6|9|2
W – Hyman (4-4); L – Wormack; S – (3)
2B – Kay (C); Savinon, Hyman, Benton (J); 3B – Cherry (J). Records – C (10-13); J (15-7-1).

⚾ Class 3A-District 9 Semifinal ⚾

Lakeland McKeel 8
Robinson 5

Robinson tried to mount a last-inning rally, scoring three runs but could draw the game no closer. Colin Rosenberg went 4-for-4 for the Knights with a double and two RBI; Ben Bryan was 2-for-3, with two runs and an RBI; and Andrew Zimmerman went 1-for-2 with an RBI and a walk.

R 100|001|3 – |5|10|5
M 310|013|x – |8|10|1
W – McMillan; L – Rojas; S – Dion
2B – Spurgeon, Wiggs (M); 3B – Rosenberg (R); Gill (M); HR – Wiggs (M). Records – R (8-17); M (13-10).

⚾ Class 5A-District 9 Semifinal ⚾

#10 East Bay 14
Spoto 1 – six innings

East Bay put up 10 runs in the sixth – capped by a Connor Gavigan (2-for-5) grand slam to defeat Spoto and advance to Friday’s district final, where the Indians will host Freedom. Five walks and a hit batter gave the Indians three first-inning runs, and that was all senior Cam Cook would need, striking out seven while holding the Spartans to one unearned run on two hits in his six innings of work. KJ Sampson was 2-for-4 with two runs and an RBI; Qwenlen Bennett was 1-for-2, with two RBI and two walks; Jeffrey Diab was 1-for-2 with two walks and three runs scored; and Rowland Ruiz Jr. was 1-for-2 with three walks, a double and two runs scored. Dereck Encarnacion tripled to right in the fifth inning for Spoto and scored on an error.

S 000|010|x – |1|2|2
E 300|01(10)|x – |14|8|1
W – Cook (3-1); L – Roberts
2B – Ruiz Jr. (E); 3B – Encarnacion (S); HR – Gavigan (E). Records – S (4-15); E (15-8).

⚾ Class 5A-District 9 Semifinal ⚾

Freedom 6
Leto 3

Freedom junior David Simpkins helped out his own cause with a two-run triple sparking a five-run Patriots rally in the fourth. Simpkins went 5 2/3 innings, allowed three runs on just one hit and struck out six to earn his sixth game of the year. Gaige Spano finished off the game, striking out three of the four batters he faced to earn the save. The win (No. 18 this season) set a new season-high mark for the Patriots program. Keven Made was 2-for-2 with two walks, a run and RBI; and Gavin Tarr (double), Diego Puente-Marquez and Luke Ledford had one RBI each in the win. Alex Abreu had an RBI groundout for the Falcons, as two walks and a hit batter turned into runs in the loss. Freedom will travel to face No. 1-seed East Bay on Friday.

L 001|101|0 – |3|1|1
F 100|500|x – |6|6|0
W – Simpkins (6-2); L – Abreu; S – Spano (2)
2B – Tarr (F); 3B – Simpkins (F). Records – L (9-15); F (18-7).

⚾ Class 6A-District 6 Semifinal ⚾

Winter Garden Horizon 3
Durant 1

Durant scored in the first inning on the road as Brennan Bailey lined a leadoff single to center, advanced on an error and scored on a Jackson McClellan RBI line drive single to left, but couldn’t scratch anything else off of Hawks pitcher Denver Patton (CG, 6 H, 0 ER, 2 BB, 4 K). Patton was 1-for-3 with a double and a run scored, and Luis Covault was 2-for-3 with a run and RBI for Horizon, which will visit Bloomingdale for Friday’s district final. Zach Nero was tagged with the loss for the Cougars, but did have seven strikeouts in 5 2/3 innings on the mound.

D 100|000|0 – |1|6|1
H 002|001|x – |3|5|2
W – Patton; L – Nero
2B – Patton (H). Records – D (14-8); H (19-7-1).

⚾ Class 6A-District 6 Semifinal ⚾

T#3 Bloomingdale 7
Lakeland 2

Bloomingdale made two walks to start the sixth inning hurt, putting up a five-spot – highlighted by Cesar Campos RBI single to get the lead, a Mason Johnson (2-for-3, double, two runs) RBI single, and a two-run triple by Vaughn Osting chopped through the right side. The Bulls will host Horizon in Friday’s district championship. Luke Long pitched 3 2/3 innings, allowed one run and struck out three in a no-decision; Javi Navas-Hoyer went 2 1/3 innings, allowed one run and struck out two to pick up the win; and Evan Plusquellic closed out the win, working around a hit batter and an error with two strikeouts.

L 000|101|0 – |2|6|0
B 011|005|x – |7|6|2
W – Navas-Hoyer (5-0); L – Estroff (2-1)
2B – Facey (L); Johnson (B); 3B – Osting (B). Records – L (13-12); B (20-4).

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