(LEADWOOD) The Herculaneum and West County baseball teams have advanced to the Class 3 District 3 Championship Game.
The 5th-seeded Blackcats upset top-seed Jefferson 2-1 Tuesday afternoon on AM 1400 KJFF. Herky scored its second run of the game in the 3rd inning off of a two-out double from catcher Cole Myers.
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That run wound up making the difference and then Herky’s Jordan Duncan finished off the Blue Jays with Shannon Dowd at the dish.
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Blackcats head coach Zac Bone says that he always believed his guys had it in them to win a game like this…
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Herky improves its record to 12-9-1 and Jefferson finishes the season at 18-4.
In our second semifinal of the afternoon, the second-seeded West County Bulldogs blanked the third-seeded and fourth-ranked team in the state, St. Pius, by a final of 4-0.
Pitching was the story of the game, but our Patsy’s Furniture Play of the Game came on a drawn up play in the 2nd inning that acted as the go-ahead run for the Bulldogs.
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Our Applebee’s of Farmington Player of the Game was junior starting pitcher Dakota Dowd for West County, who recorded a complete game shutout and double-digit strikeouts. Here was the final out of the game.
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Bulldogs head coach John Simily talks about the decision to go with Dowd on the mound.
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St. Pius sees their season end with a 17-3 record while West County moves to 19-6 and will battle Herculaneum for the Class 3 District 3 title. You can listen to the call Wednesday afternoon on AM 1400 KJFF with the Fliegs Equipment Pregame Show beginning at 3:45.
Full Herky-Jefferson Game Audio
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Full West County-St. Pius Game Audio
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