BINGHAMTON, N.Y. \u2014 Marlboro High\u2019s baseball team, which registered a string of upsets to advance to the Class A state semifinals, saw its dreams of a state championship end as undefeated Long Island powerhouse Plainedge eliminated the Dukes 7-0 at Binghamton University on Friday, June 12.<\/p>\n
Plainedge pitcher Jaxson Torres blanked the Dukes (11-12) on three hits and went 2-for-4 at the plate.<\/p>\n
The Red Devils (28-0) from Section 8 will face Section 2\u2019s Averill Park (21-5) in the Class A\u00a0 New York State Public High School Athletic Association (NYSPHSAA) title game on Saturday, June 13.<\/p>\n
Marlboro began the Section 9 baseball playoffs as the No. 7 seed with an 7-11 record. The Dukes upset No. 2 Highland, No. 3 New Paltz and top-seeded Beacon to capture the Section 9 championship.<\/p>\n
Marlboro then beat Section 1\u2019s Byram Hills 4-3 in a state quarterfinal-round game to advance to Friday\u2019s state semis.<\/p>\n
In other games involving Section 9 champions, Chester took the Class B state title with a 3-0 victory over Section 6 (Western New York) foe Medina on Saturday at the University of Binghamton after eliminating Suffolk County champion Center Moriches 5-2 on Friday on the same field in the semis.<\/p>\n
Unbeaten Cornwall (24-0) advanced to the Class AA championship game at 4 p.m. on Saturday with a 5-3 victory over Suffolk County champion John F. Kennedy on Friday at Mirabito Stadium in Binghamton. The Section 9 Dragons will face Section 3 champion West Genesee at Mirabito Stadium.<\/p>\n
Section 9 Class AAA titlist Monroe-Woodbury (19-4), which beat Kingston 9-3 in the sectional final on May 30 at Cantine Field in Saugerties, lost its state semifinal contest 5-3 to Long Island\u2019s Massapequa High on Friday at Union-Endicott High at Endicott.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BINGHAMTON, N.Y. \u2014 Marlboro High\u2019s baseball team, which registered a string of upsets to advance to the Class…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,853,1690,185,10606],"class_list":["post-725160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-latest-headlines","tag-new-york","tag-sports","tag-ulster-county"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116744816158704907","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725160","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=725160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}