Northview, Escambia baseball's seasons end in regional semifinals
Northview and Escambia high school baseball teams saw their seasons end in regional semifinals on Sunday.
Rainy weather over the past two days meant a rare Sunday with high school sports action, as Escambia and Northview baseball competed in regional semifinals. Unfortunately, both team's seasons came to an end. Read below for a full recap and analysis.
Rural Region 1 semifinal No. 4 Chipley 9, No. 1 Northview 7 (Game 3, Chipley wins series 2-1) Chiefs head coach Justin Raley told his team in their postgame prayer it just wasn't their day.
Faced with another deficit in a stretch run full of plenty where they could've folded, Northview (19-10) loaded the bases with one out in the bottom of the seventh. All the excitement, chatter and cheers ended on one pitch. A hard groundball up the middle that Chipley (17-11) shortstop Ty Gray fielded cleanly and tossed to second Logan O'Neill, who then fired to first baseman Caleb Culbreth for a series clinching double play.
The Tigers, after being on the ropes seconds earlier, ran to mob pitcher Blake Godwin by the mound. Northview, after dreaming of a last second rally, trotted silently out of the dugout for a postgame handshake, trying to hold back tears until the season's final huddle. The Chiefs had given themselves a chance, but just couldn't finish.
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