⚾ 1A-District 9 Final ⚾

SLAM 12
Seffner Christian 8

Chris Pope‘s bases clearing double broke open an eight-run fourth inning for Sports Leadership & Management as the Spartans claimed its first ever baseball district title with a win at Seffner Christian Thursday afternoon. Senior Adonys Nova was 1-for-4 with a double and three RBI and held the Crusaders to two runs in three innings on the mound, and Giancarlo Labrada pitched the game’s final 2 1/3 innings, stranding a pair of Seffner Christian runners in the sixth and nipping a four-run rally to preserve his team’s lead. Pope was 2-for-4 in the win with two runs scored. For the Crusaders Kris Colondres hit his sixth home run of the season and scored twice in the loss; Brayden Nanns was 1-for-3 with an RBI triple; and Ryder Stephens struck out five in 2 2/3 scoreless innings of relief.

S    300|810|0 – |12|9|2
SC 002|240|0 – |8|6|5
W – Nova; L – Tate (4-2); S – Labrada
2B – Nova, Pope (S); 3B – Bra. Nanns (SC); HR – Colondres (SC). Records – S (10-14); SC (13-11).

⚾ 2A-District 9 Final ⚾

#14 Tampa Catholic 5
#10 Carrollwood Day 3

Tampa Catholic loaded the bases in the fifth on singles from Cole Bitman, Dominic Woodward and a bunt hit from Jack Smythe and clawed out two runs on a CDS error to take home a second-straight  district title. Woodward pitched 5 2/3 innings and struck out nine, before turning the ball over the fellow senior Jake Owen who recorded the final four outs for the Crusaders and earned the save. Carrollwood Day took a first-inning lead on four straight singles – Allen Soriano lining a ball to center and scoring on a line drive from Julian Earle to left, then Ashton Brown followed with his own single to left and Caleb Nursey went to center to drive in a second run. TC took advantage of two errors in the third, scoring three runs helped along by a Jose Carrero RBI single, and Cal Johnson was 2-for-2 with a double and run scored in the win. Patriots senior Evan Mazur suffered the loss, giving up nine hits and five unearned runs, while striking out five in five innings.

C 200|010|0 – |3|6|3
T 003|020|x – |5|10|0
W – Woodward (4-2); L – E. Mazur (1-1); S – Owen (2)
2B – Earle (C); Johnson (T). Records – C (15-8); T (20-7).

⚾ 2A-District 10 Final ⚾

#12 Tamp Prep 2
St Pete Catholic 1

After the first two batters of the home-seventh were hit by pitches, Tampa Prep senior Will Futch dropped down a bunt to the left side and the throw to first sailed allowing Langston Sallis to score and walk off the win as the Terrapins rallied with a run in each of the final two innings to take a district title at home. Barons senior Ethan Carbonell led off the game with a single to center, moved over on an error and scored on a Aidan Heelan sac fly. From there, Tampa Prep junior Liam Akins would work around nine hits over 6 2/3 innings, finishing with three strikeouts in a no-decision. Senior Kyle Brill would take over with two on and two outs in the seventh and strand the runners with a strikeout and earn the win with the walkoff. The half-inning before, it was Brill who earned the RBI the hard way wearing a pitch with the bases loaded to tie the game. Tampa Prep’s Dennis Martino was 2-for-3 with a double; while Alex Fabio and Aiden Esposito were each 2-for-3 for the Barons.

S 100|000|0 – |1|9|1
T 000|001|1 – |2|5|3
W – Brill (2-1); L – Newman
2B – Martino (T). Records – S (11-16); T (16-10).

⚾ 3A-District 9 Final ⚾

Lakeland McKeel 4
Robinson 0

McKeel scored a pair of runs in the second inning in support of senior pitcher Caleb Clanton, who delivered a complete-game two-hit shoutout against Robinson, striking out six. Carter Sprouse drove in the deciding run, and scored twice in the win; Jorge Cordova doubled and tripled in a three-hit game, driving in a pair; and Brock Spurgeon was 1-for-2 with a run and RBI including scoring the first run of the game. Robinson’s Samuel Hyman had a double, and pitched five innings, allowing three earned runs and struck out four.

R 000|000|0 – |0|2|2
M 020|110|x – |4|5|1
W – Clanton (7-3); L – Hyman (3-7)
2B – Hyman (R); Cordova (M); 3B – Cordova (M). Records – R (12-14); M (18-7).

⚾ 4A-District 9 Final ⚾
(from Wednesday)

#7 Jesuit 7
Countryside 0

Jesuit claimed its 13th-straight district title as junior Wilson Andersen pitched five scoreless innings, allowing one hit and striking out eight to pickup his sixth win of the season. The Tigers took control early as senior Robby Santana put up his fourth multi-RBI game in a row, with a two-run triple in the first inning. Bryce Besece added an RBI sac fly to the first, and later drove in a run on a single; Vincent DeCarlo was 4-for-4 with two RBI; Andersen walked, stole a pair of bases and scored a run; Kaeden Waechter was 1-for-4 with a double, RBI and two runs; and Ben Burke pitched two scoreless innings of relief, allowing one hit, one walk, and striking out one. In the FHSAA’s last updated rankings (4/8/25) Jesuit was the No. 1 ranked team in Class 4A, so that shouldn’t change after adding four more wins and a district title.

C 000|000|0 – |0|2|1
J  300|022|x – |7|9|1
W – Anderson (6-3); L –  Muise
2B – Mohammed, Waechter (J); 3B –Santana (J). Records – C (18-8); J (19-8).

⚾ 5A-District 9 Final ⚾

#15 East Bay 10
Spoto 3

Five East Bay batters had a multi-hit game as the Indians claimed a district title. Spoto struck first however, scoring two runs on an error after David Ruiz Jr (2-for-3) and Qwenlen Bennett picked up two-out singles. But the Indians steadily chipped away, Connor Gavigan driving in a run with a single in the home-first, then East Bay tied it on a Jaxson Farchione (2-for-2) hit, and took the lead for good on a single by Ethan Cunningham; Jonathan Bryant  had an RBI sac fly and a two-run double in the win, Rowland Ruiz Jr. was 3-for-4 with three runs scored, Rory Beauford Jr. was 2-for-4 with a triple RBI and two runs, and Jeffrey Diab was 2-for-3 with a run and RBI. JJ Groover earned the win, pitching four innings giving up two unearned runs with four strikeouts, and Gavigan struck out seven in 2 1/3 innings of relief. Devin Dukes went 1-for-2 with a double and two runs scored.

S 200|010|0 – |3|6|0
E 121|033|x – |10|14|2
W – Groover (3-3); L – Barrios
2B – Dukes, Ruiz (S); Gavigan, Bryant (E); 3B – Beauford (E). Records – S (12-14); E (14-11).

⚾ 6A-District 6 Final ⚾

#1 Bloomingdale 2
Durant 1 – nine innings

Bloomingdale’s John Ramos hit a pinch-hit walk-off single in the ninth inning to push the Bulls to a district title win over Durant after a quartet of pitchers shoved all night from Valrico. The Bulls got a one-out double from Isaiah Perez in the first inning, loaded the bases on a walk and a Luke Long single, before Vaughn Osting gave his team an early lead with an RBI sac fly to center. Starting pitcher Javier Navas-Hoyer worked 4 2/3 innings before running into some trouble in the fifth – a pair of singles and a walk setting up Brantley Hayward‘s RBI sac fly to tie the game and chase the Bulls junior pitcher from the game. Osting took over on the mound and struck out three, holding the Cougars to one hit and one walk the final 4 1/3 innings, and struck out three while earning the win. Durant senior Owen Franklin held Bloomingdale to one run on five hits and struck out eight in 5 2/3 innings, and Tristan Macpherson took the loss allowing one unearned. Shawn Graves was 2-for-4 for the Cougars, and Cooper Hughes was 1-for-3 with a run scored. Mason Johnson and Cesar Campos were both 2-for-4 for the Bulls in the win.

D 000|010|000 – |1|6|2
B 100|000|001 – |2|9|0
W – Osting (6-1); L – Macpherson (3-3)
2B – Perez (B). Records – D (15-9); N (22-4).

⚾ 6A-District 9 Final ⚾

#5 Wharton 8
Sunlake 4

Jarius Morris‘ leadoff double in the second kicked off a six-run inning for the Wildcats and that was all junior pitcher Daniel Duno needed to hold off a Sunlake charge and earn the Wildcats a district title. After the Seahawks took a first-inning lead on a Matt Anthony home run to right, the Wildcats got going an inning later when Jeremiah Brown tied the game with a single, Chris Stroud dropped down a squeeze bunt to give Wharton a lead, and hits from Drew Cobb and Anthony Fawcett pushed the lead out far enough. Sunlake scratched back three runs in the third highlighted by RBI hits from Lucas Zarlenga and a run-scoring single from Anthony, but Duno limited further damage working six innings and striking out eight, before Chase Andress finished off the final inning.

S  103|000|0 – |4|7|4
W 060|101|x – |8|5|0
W – Duno; L – Italiano
2B – Zarlenga (S); Morris (W); HR – Anthony (S). Records – S (14-10); W (21-5).

⚾ 6A-District 10 Final ⚾

#4 Plant 11
Steinbrenner 4

Strayer leads power Plant production in title win over Steinbrenner.

S 000|002|2 – |4|6|2
P 100|262|x – |11|9|2
W – Townley (7-0); L – Krueger
2B – Liss, Kolsen, Osborne, Hoblitzell (S); HR – Strayer 2, J. Cucchi, Ellis (P). Records – S (15-12); P (20-6).

⚾ 6A-District 11 Final ⚾

#3 Sickles 6
East Lake 5 – eight innings

Sickles loaded the bases in the bottom of the eighth and senior Jaden Nazar sent a fly ball to left field to drive in Jordan Yost with a walk-off RBI sac fly, as the Gryphons avenged last season’s district final loss to East Lake. The two teams played scoreless through three innings before the Eagles got on the board in the fourth inning on an Eli Millian Rbi single to centerfield. Sickles answered in the fifth with a two-run double from Connor Bly. The two teams went back-and-forth the next two inning, East Lake putting up four in the top of the sixth highlighted by RBI hits from Dylan Taft (2-for-4, run) and Drew Gerber, but the Gryphons would force extra innings, tying the game on a two run hit by Emilio Salgado and a Brandon Gonzales RBI sac fly. Ben Durda earned the win in relief, allowing one run over three innings, with two hits allowed and one strikeout.

E 000|104|00 – |5|8|2
S 000|023|01 – |6|5|1
W – Durda; L – Millian (2-1)
2B – Sheffield (E); Bly (S). Records – E (19-7); S (20-7).

⚾ 7A-District 7 Final ⚾

#8 Newsome 2
Plant City 0

Glassford stands tall, Wolves think small in title win.

P 000|000|0 – |0|4|0
N 001|010|0 – |2|3|0
W – Glassford (7-3); L – Hay (4-1)
2B – J. Carbaugh (P). Records – P (16-12); N (19-6).

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