Bulls score early, weather Northeast comeback bid
Bloomingdale’s Drake Harman (front) and Jack Owens round third base scoring on Colby Shelton’s three-run triple. The Bulls picked up its first win, defeating Northeast 8-4.
By Jarrett Guthrie
Editor
TAMPA – When Colby Shelton smashed a bases-clearing triple in the second inning of Tuesday’s Bay Bash game against Northeast, things looked decidedly in Bloomingdale’s favor. And though that five-run lead proved enough to get the job done, the Vikings made it a fight to the last out as the Bulls escaped a bases-loaded jam with the tying run at the plate in an 8-4 win.
Drake Harman took a walk to open the game, and scored the first run when Dawson Harman doubled to left field to get things going for Bloomingdale (1-1).
Northeast (0-2) looked poised to answer back in the home-first, but Bulls backstop Carlos DeJesus ended the inning with a laser down to third base – his second caught stealing of the young season.
The Bulls stretched the lead the next inning, with John Rosario doubling and scoring on a Jack Owens single, before the three-bagger from Shelton.
The Vikings started chipping back in the latter half of the inning as Jayden Cannizzaro sent a groundball to short scoring John Ingalls (2-for-4, two runs, stolen base).
After Drake Harman added one back to the Bulls total with a RBI single, Northeast made a leadoff
error in the fourth hurt as Cannizzaro doubled in a run, Brayden Hale plated him with a single, and Amai Rivera-Martinez drew a bases loaded walk – one of three BB he had in the game.
John Rosario’s home run to deep centerfield and another RBI hit from Dawson Harman gave the Bulls enough breathing room to get the win, and senior Chase Chappell dug himself out of his own late jam finishing the final 2 2/3 innings of the game, allowing just one hit and striking out six to notch his first save of the year.
Bloomingdale’s Jake Magadan (3ip, four hits, one K, one walk) earned his first high school win as a starting pitcher.
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- Northeast SP Sean Bubenhofer.
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- Bloomingdale’s Dawson Harman doubles in the first run.
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- Northeast 1B Amai Rivera-Martinez makes a catch in foul territory.
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- Bloomingdale SP Jake Magadan.
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- Bulls C Carlos DeJesus catches a runner stealing.
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- Colby Shelton sends a three-run triple to centerfield.
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- Viking’s hitter Jayden Cannizzaro drives in one of his two RBI in the game.
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- NEHI’s John Ingalls heads home.
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- Bulls senior John Rosario is congratulated by coach Kris Wilken after his solo shot to center.
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- NEHI 2B Cayden Evans waits to apply a tag at second.
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- Bulls reliever Chase Chappell earned his first save of the season.
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- Vikings 2B Hunter Hage makes a great leaping catch in the seventh inning.
Bloomingdale is back in Bay Bash action against Osceola at 7pm on Thursday from Jesuit, while Northeast plays Strawberry Crest earlier in the day at 4pm.
Bloomingdale junior RHP Jake Magadan earned the win on the mound.
Bloomingdale 8
St. Pete Northeast 4
B 141|011|0 – |8|11|2
NE 010|300|x – |4|9|1
W – Magadan (1-0); L – Bubenhofer (0-1); S – Chappell (1)
2B – Owens, Daw. Harman, Rosario (B); Cannizzaro, Evans, Ingalls (N); 3B – Shelton (B); HR – Rosario (B). Records – B (1-1); N (0-2).
