The top 2 seeds in the eight-team, double-elimination Class 3A baseball state tournament each went a perfect 2-0 Friday in Greeley.<\/p>\n
Top-seeded University (25-2) picked up a 6-2 first-round win against No. 8 Wellington (15-11) and a 6-0 shutout of No. 4 The Classical Academy (19-7) at Butch Butler Field.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, across town at University\u2019s Tom Roche Field, second-seeded Eaton (23-3) earned a 7-0 win against No. 7 Elizabeth (18-8) and a 3-2 victory against No. 6 D\u2019Evelyn (19-8).<\/p>\n
That sets up a clash between the Bulldogs and Reds, heated rivals, at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Butch Butler Field. The matchup pits the last two teams unbeaten in the state tournament. The winner is guaranteed a spot in the finals May 30 at Butch Butler.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, in the southern part of the state, Dayspring Christian (17-6) \u2014 seeded fifth in the 2A state tournament \u2014 secured a 6-2 win against No. 4 Denver Christian (17-9) before falling, 12-3, to top-seeded Forge Christian (25-2) at the Runyon Sports Complex in Pueblo.<\/p>\n
The Eagles drop to the lower bracket. At noon Saturday, they\u2019ll play in an elimination game against whichever squad emerges from a 9:30 a.m. game between No. 3 Yuma (21-5) and No. 7 Peyton (18-6).<\/p>\n
For more about the state tournaments, visit greeleytribune.com and read Sunday\u2019s print edition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The top 2 seeds in the eight-team, double-elimination Class 3A baseball state tournament each went a perfect 2-0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[5,167,13922,47918,85876,16750,1041,57423,3329,3263,853,1358,2328,2304,4,2305,2303,169,185,85877,71778],"class_list":["post-706784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb-postseason","tag-baseball","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-news","tag-eaton","tag-eaton-reds","tag-evans","tag-front-range","tag-greeley","tag-high-school-baseball","tag-high-school-sports","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-mlb-postseason","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-university-bulldogs","tag-weld-county"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116625117263443955","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706784","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=706784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}