‘48 loses 3-1
‘48 had the opportunity to extend their quarterfinal to a winner-take-all fifth game, but let it slip away in the seventh.
Two batters after Gil Coan’s RBI double tied the score, Cass Michaels lined a bases-clearing double to provide the final margin of
‘51’s 6-3 win that sent
‘48 into the Manfred Regional.
Both teams put runs on the board in the second, but
‘51 took the lead after Sam Mele’s two-run homer wiped out Al Evans’ RBI single.
In the top of the sixth, however,
‘48 lined three singles to tie the score again and put runners on the corners, setting up Junior Wooten’s lead-changing sacrifice fly.