CONVERSE — Another special postseason run for the Westview High School baseball team came to an end Saturday as the Warriors dropped a 5-1 decision to Boone Grove in a Class 2A North Semi-State semifinal game at Oak Hill High School.

With the loss, Westview finished 15-12 (7-3 Northeast Corner Conference, good for second place).

Boone Grove moved on to Saturday night’s Semi-State championship game against Wapahani. The Wolves defeated the Raiders 9-2 to advance to this Saturday’s Class 2A state final at Victory Field in Indianapolis against Evansville Mater Dei, an 8-0 winner over Providence in the Southern Semi-State title tilt. First pitch is set for 4:30 p.m.

In last Saturday’s Semi-State semifinals, it just wasn’t the Warriors’ day. Westview managed just four hits, walked six batters and committed three errors.

Boone Grove scored single runs in the first and second inning to get out to a 2-0 lead.

The Warriors’ downfall was a three-run fifth inning that saw the Wolves string together five hits to push their lead out to 5-0.

Westview got its lone run in the bottom of the bottom of the sixth. With one out, Maverick Deveau stroked a double and later scored on an Elijah Zolman’s single.

Warrior ace Max Engle took the loss, but struck out six in five innings of work, throwing 96 pitches. Engle is bound for Huntington University this fall.

Boone Grove starter Seth Pitcock, who was recently picked an Indiana All-Star, threw 114 pitches and struck out 11 in the complete game win.

Davian Carrera, Javy Carrera and Tristan Wilson two hits apiece to lead a 10-hit Boone Groove attack.

The Warriors say goodbye to a special group of six seniors — a sextet that won sectional championships all four years. The graduating Westview seniors are Gavin Engle, Max Engle, Jack Massey, Kamden Yoder, Jaxon Engle and Deveau. Deveau finished as Westview’s leading hitter at .452 with a .528 on-base percentage, a .714 slugging percentage, a homer, four doubles, two triples and 16 RBIs.

Westview head coach Jason Rahn said Pitcock did a great job of keeping his potent lineup off-balance.

“They’ve got a bunch of baseball guys,” Rahn said. “We knew they could hit, but their whole group did a great job. They really made Max work.”

The errors were costly, Rahn admitted.

“If we were crisper in the field, it might have been a 1-1 game and we might still be playing,” Rahn said. “That’s tough, but in a game like this against a team like that, you have to be crisp. That’s baseball, right?”

Rahn said the six seniors will be hard to replace. “Between their eighth grade and freshman year, these guys were in the weight room. They had these moments in their mind,” he said.