On Friday, the Wilming\u00adton High baseball started fast and ended strong, but the middle of the game proved to be the problem against visiting Burlington.<\/p>\n
The Red Devils used an eight-run third inning to overcome an early 3-0 de\u00adficit to win, 9-5.<\/p>\n
It was another frustrating day for the Wildcats, who dropped to 0-7 overall with their last three losses coming by a 4-2 score against Westford Academy and a 5-4 defeat to Melrose before the Burlington game.<\/p>\n
Burlington\u2019s second in\u00adning featured five hits and three Wildcat errors.<\/p>\n
Daniel Crossman led off the frame with a double and James Gordon walk\u00aded before a passed ball moved both runners up. A wild pitch plated Cross\u00adman before Giacomo Ber\u00adardinelli\u2019s grounder back to the mound was thrown away for an error that scored Gordon to make it 3-2.<\/p>\n
Evan Brothers was next and his grounder deep into the hole at shortstop was good for an infield hit, but an errant throw on the play scored Berardinelli to tie the score.<\/p>\n
Brian Chaves hit a single, moving pinch-running Brady Richer to third be\u00adfore a double steal scored Richer. Michael Bannister walked with two outs and a ground ball by Mason King was misplayed, scoring Chaves.<\/p>\n
Crossman and Gordon both followed with RBI doubles, Gordon\u2019s driving in two, to make it 8-3.<\/p>\n
The big inning prompted WHS coach to call on Ethan LaConte for relief of senior starter Roman Syn\u00adnott and LaConte would allow just one unearned run during his 4.1 innings of work on the hill. He scattered four hits, didn\u2019t walk a batter and had a strikeout.<\/p>\n
Wilmington took its lead in the first when Julian Martins drew a leadoff walk, stole second and advanced to third on a pas\u00adsed ball. Ryan Gray walk\u00aded with two outs and stole second before a base on balls to Will Poyant load\u00aded the bases.<\/p>\n
Jackson Hegarty then laced a three-run single to right that cleared the ba\u00adses.<\/p>\n
Noah Titterington nearly added to the lead, but his hard liner to right field was caught.<\/p>\n
The Wildcats wouldn\u2019t score again until the bottom of the seventh.<\/p>\n
LaConte walked to lead off and singles by Martins and Theo Bryson loaded the bases with nobody out.<\/p>\n
A sacrifice fly by Syn\u00adnott scored LaConte and John Roofe\u2019s base hit scored Martins.<\/p>\n
Bryson was thrown out at home for the second out.<\/p>\n
Poyant nearly got the \u2019Cats closer, but his shot to center field was caught to end the game.<\/p>\n
The Wildcats almost scored in the third as Bryson led off with a single and Gray had a base hit with one out, but a strikeout and a grounder ended the rally.<\/p>\n
WHS also had two base\u00adrunners in the fourth when Titterington and Martins drew walks.<\/p>\n
The Wilmington defense had some solid moments.<\/p>\n
Outfielder Spencer Walk\u00ader made a nice catch in the first inning and Mar\u00adtins ended the frame with a great play on a groun\u00adder to short.<\/p>\n
In the second, first baseman JR Haggerty made a pair of plays, cleanly fielding a sacrifice bunt and then catching a line drive.<\/p>\n
Poyant grabbed a line drive to second in the fourth inning and both Walker and Gray made good grabs in the outfield in the fifth.<\/p>\n
The sixth inning saw Synnott made a nice catch in center field and LaConte cleanly handled a liner back to the mound.<\/p>\n
Prior to Burlington, the \u2019Cats lost a 5-4 heartbreaker against Melrose.<\/p>\n
WHS led 4-2 after six in\u00adnings before the Hawks scored three times in the top of the seventh.<\/p>\n
Martins hit a two-out single in the bottom of the seventh and advanced to second on an error, but could not score the tying run.<\/p>\n
Down 2-0 after five in\u00adnings, Wilmington scored four times in the sixth.<\/p>\n
Martins singled with one out and Bryson added a base hit. Synnott then scored Martins with a sacrifice fly to make it 2-1.<\/p>\n
Gray\u2019s single scored Bryson and a Poyant base hit helped set the table for the \u2019Cats to take the lead.<\/p>\n
Hegarty hit a ground ball that was misplayed by Melrose, allowing both Gray and Poyant to score for a 4-2 lead.<\/p>\n
Titterington pitched for Wilmington and went into the seventh inning before LaConte got the final two outs.<\/p>\n
In the 4-2 loss to West\u00adford Academy, Haggerty pitched all six innings for the Wildcats and threw well.<\/p>\n
Wilmington trailed 4-0 heading into the seventh but made a game of it.<\/p>\n
Walker reached on an er\u00adror to start the inning and Poyant singled before RBI singles by Gray and Heg\u00adarty.<\/p>\n
After two strikeouts, Wil\u00admington had runners on second and third, but a ground out ended the game.<\/p>\n
After facing Woburn on Wednesday, Wilmington vi\u00adsits Melrose on Thurs\u00adday at 4:15 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday, the Wilming\u00adton High baseball started fast and ended strong, but the middle of the game proved…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2288],"tags":[2315,2309,2336,2351,5,2316,2323,3313,2314,2317,2313,2325,2337,86981,86980,19942,86976,86984,86979,18724,86978,2330,2333,86986,86977,86988,18299,18294,2334,19,2310,2328,2304,2308,86983,86975,86982,4,2305,2303,86987,8482,2307,18290,18298,86989,185,2324,2560,2350,2338,2311,18292,18285,2312,86974,86985,86973,18284,86990,1039],"class_list":{"0":"post-688732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-postseason","8":"tag-athletic-sports","9":"tag-ball-and-bat-games","10":"tag-ball-games","11":"tag-base-on-balls","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-baseball-competitions","14":"tag-baseball-events","15":"tag-baseball-field","16":"tag-baseball-finals","17":"tag-baseball-games","18":"tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","19":"tag-baseball-teams","20":"tag-batted-ball","21":"tag-brady-richer","22":"tag-brian-chaves","23":"tag-burlington","24":"tag-daniel-crossman","25":"tag-ethan-laconte","26":"tag-evan-brothers","27":"tag-fielding-error","28":"tag-giacomo-berardinelli","29":"tag-glossary-of-baseball-terms","30":"tag-grass-field-surfaces","31":"tag-jackson-hegarty","32":"tag-james-gordon","33":"tag-john-roofe","34":"tag-jr-haggerty","35":"tag-julian-martins","36":"tag-lawn-games","37":"tag-major-league-baseball","38":"tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","39":"tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","40":"tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","41":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams","42":"tag-mason-king","43":"tag-melrose","44":"tag-michael-bannister","45":"tag-mlb","46":"tag-mlb-playoffs","47":"tag-mlb-postseason","48":"tag-noah-titterington","49":"tag-out-baseball","50":"tag-outdoor-sports","51":"tag-roman-synnott","52":"tag-ryan-gray","53":"tag-spencer-walker","54":"tag-sports","55":"tag-sports-events","56":"tag-stolen-base","57":"tag-strikeout","58":"tag-team-activities","59":"tag-team-sports","60":"tag-theo-bryson","61":"tag-town-crier","62":"tag-turf-sports","63":"tag-westford-academy","64":"tag-will-poyant","65":"tag-wilmington-high-baseball","66":"tag-wilmington","67":"tag-woburn","68":"tag-world-series"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}