BASEBALL
A South semifinal: #3-South Portland vs. #2-Falmouth
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Saturday, June 11, 2022
SOUTH PORTLAND 6, FALMOUTH 5
Nolan Hobbs scattered 12 hits and defending Class A champion South Portland held off second-seeded Falmouth for a 6-5 win in a Class A South baseball semifinal Saturday at Falmouth.
The third-seeded Red Riots (16-3) will face top-ranked Thornton Academy in the regional final at 3 p.m. Tuesday at St. Joseph’s College.
South Portland took a 2-0 lead in the first inning on an RBI single from Ryan Thurber (three hits) and an error.
Falmouth (16-3) got on the board in the third on Patrick Gill’s infield single with the bases loaded, but Finn O’Connell (three hits) hit a home run in the fourth to put South Portland back up by two.
The Navigators pulled even with runs in the fourth and fifth, the first on an RBI single by Miles Gay and the second on Bennett Smith’s triple.
But the Red Riots regained the lead in the sixth when an attempted pickoff throw was wild, allowing Thurber to score. Andrew Heffernan (three hits) followed with a two-run single.
That proved critical, as Falmouth’s Ethan Hendry hit a two-run homer in the seventh.
| Records | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Portland | 16-3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | — | 6 | 13 | 0 |
| Falmouth | 16-3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | — | 5 | 13 | 2 |
WP—Hobbs.
LP—Tracy.
2B—SP: Johnny Poole.
3B—F: Smith.
HR—F: Hendry SP: Finn O'Connell.
Repeat hitters—F: Miles Gay, Patrick Gill (3), Hendry, Brennan Rumpf, Smith SP: Andrew Heffernan (3), O'Connell (3), Ryan Thurber (3).