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Box Score 3 By MIKE MONTFORT
TYLER -- It was as easy as 1-2-3 for zone champion Navarro. The Bulldogs faced the minimum.
Navarro (28-11) beat Blinn and run-ruled Bossier Parish twice to win the North Regional and advance to Region XIV's best-of-three Super Regional May 14-16.
Navarro, riding the momentum of a seven-game winning streak and nine of its last 10, will play South Regional winner San Jacinto (46-12), which dispatched of Panola and Paris in run-rule decisions at Pasadena over the weekend.
Winner of next weekend's Super Regional will advance to the Alpine Bank NJCAA Division I JUCO World Series at Sam Suplizio Field in Grand Junction, Co., May 29-June 5.
Sunday: Navarro 8, Bossier Parish 0 (7 Innings)
In Sunday's clincher,
Chad Ricker pitched a complete-game, five-hit shutout with eight strikeouts. Ricker, routinely a first baseman this season, had four previous spot-starts among his 21.1 innings on the mound this season. The righthander (4-2) now has won his last three appearances and four of his last five. Ricker's replacement at first base today,
Josh Dyer, hit his first career home run -- a three-run, opposite-field shot.
Back-to-back doubles by
Tallon Heine and
Cash Rugely pushed across the tournament-ending, championship-winning run in the bottom of the seventh inning.
The Bulldogs own run-rule victories in all five meetings this season with Bossier Parish.
Saturday: Navarro 12, Bossier Parish 2 (6 innings)
Zac Vooletich homered and drove in three runs for NC, while Rugely and
Ethan Ruiz each doubled and knocked in two runs apiece.
Righthander
Jake Combs (7-0) cruised to the victory, yielding six hits and one walk while striking out six.
Friday: Navarro 4, Blinn 1
Heine's two-run single and Vooletich's RBI-double helped to power Navarro to its opening win over the Buccaneers.
Winning pitcher
Cooper Randall worked 5.1 innings, while
Seth Foster pitched hitless relief over the final 3.2 to earn his first save of the season.
NORTH REGIONAL
Navarro 8, Bossier Parish 0 (Run-ruled, 7 innings)
SCORE BY INNINGS................R-H-E (LOB)
BPCC...........000...000.... 0 -- 0-5-2 (LOB 5)
Navarro........030...013.....1 -- 8-9-0 (LOB 10)
W --
Chad Ricker (4-2). 7.0 IP, CG, 5 H, 1 BB, 0 R, 8 K
Pitching:
NC --
Chad Ricker. BPCC: RH Logan Ellinwood, Zac St. Pierre (3), Jauden Saylors (4), Zac Boyer (5), Christian Huerta (6), Billy Decker (6)
Batting:
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Saturday Championship-Bracket Game
Navarro 12, Bossier Parish 2 (Final, 6 Innings)
SCORE BY INNINGS................R-H-E (LOB)
BPCC.............000...002...XXX -- 2-6-1 (LOB 5)
Navarro.........113...214...XXX -- 12-9-0 (LOB 8
Pitching
L - Justin Lawson, Connor Gleeson (5).
Batting:
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Friday Championship-Bracket Opening Round
Navarro 4, Blinn 1
SCORE BY INNINGS............R-H-E (LOB)
Blinn.........000...001...000 -- 1-4-1 (LOB 10)
Navarro.....020...001...01X -- 4-4-0 (LOB 12)
Pitching:
W --
Cooper Randall. L -- Colten Drake. Sv Seith Foster
NC --
Cooper Randall (5.1 IP, 4 H, 6 BB, 1 R, 1 ER).
Seth Foster (6). BC -- Drake, Jake Olson (6), Trevor Mott (8).
Batting:
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REGION XIV POSTSEASON REGIONAL BRACKETS
NORTH REGIONAL
Irwin Field at UT-Tyler Ballpark, Tyler, Tx
Seeding (Records Entering Friday):
1 Navarro (25-11)
2 Wharton (26-25)
3 Bossier Parish (21-20)
4 Blinn (21-20)
Friday's Championship-Bracket Games
Game 1: 1 pm – (4) Blinn (21-21) v. (1) Navarro (26-11) -- Navarro, 4-1
Game 2: 5 pm – (3) BPCC (21-20) v. (2) Wharton (26-25) -- BPCC 12-0 (8 Innings)
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Saturday's Games
Game 3: 10 am – Blinn (21-21) v. Wharton (26-26) Blinn, 7-0 (Wharton eliminated)
Game 4: 2 pm – Navarro (26-11) v. BPCC (22-20) Navarro, 12-2 (6)
Game 5: 6 pm – Blinn (22-21) v. BPCC (22-21) BPCC, 10-9 (Blinn eliminated)
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Sunday's Game
Game 6: 10 am – BPCC (23-22) v. Navarro (28-11) Navarro, 8-0 (7). Navarro Wins North Regional.
SOUTH REGIONAL
John Ray Harrison Field at Andy Pettitte Park, Pasadena
Seeding (Records Entering Friday):
1. San Jacinto (43-12)
2. Paris (28-17)
3. Alvin (28-21)
4. Panola (18-23)
Friday's Championship-Bracket Games
Game 1: 2 pm – (4) Panola (18-24) at (1) San Jacinto (44-12) San Jacinto, 13-1 (5 innings)
Game 2: 6 pm – (3) Alvin (28-21) v. (2) Paris (28-17) Paris, 1-0
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Saturday's Games
Game 3: 10 am – Panola (18-24) v. Alvin (28-22) Alvin, 5-4 (Panola eliminated)
Game 4: 2:30 pm – San Jac (44-12) v. Paris (29-17) San Jacinto, 8-2
Game 5: 7 pm – Alvin (29-22) v. Paris (29-18) Paris, 3-2 (11) (Alvin eliminated)
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Sunday's Game
Game 6: 2 pm – Paris (30-18) v. San Jacinto (45-12) San Jacinto, 11-3 (8) San Jacinto Wins South Regional
