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On a very windy day, the O'Hara Celtics fell to the Raytown Blue Jays 6-1 in the first round of the Raytown Schools Tournament. Joey Tucker got O'Hara on the scoreboard with a ground out to score Chuck Preston. It was the Celtics' only run of the game. Sophomore Cullen Rowland started the game for the Celtics allowing only one earned run over four innings. and struck out six batters. Aaron Mitchell came in relief and registered three strikeouts ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Celtic Baseball team defeated the Oak Grove Panthers the next day by the score of 11-5. The Celtics went up 2-0 on a homerun by Aaron Mitchell in the first inning. However the Panthers answered with five runs. Trailing 5-2 in the top of the third the Celtics rallied to take a 6-5 lead on four consecutive singles by Aaron Mitchell, Chuck Preston, Joey Tucker and Jake Slocum. A two run homer by Aaron Stubblefield added insurance runs in the top of the fourth. Senior Vince Saviano relieved pitcher Jake Slocum in the second inning and had four shutout innings to preserve the win stiking out six along the way. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fort Osage tied O'Hara in the third game 5-5. Both teams had identical 1-1-1 records but Fort Osage moved on in the tournament's competition having a better run-spread for the tie breaker. Aaron Stubblefield was O'Hara's starting pitcher and gave up one first inning run but allowed no hits. Fort Osage increased their lead to 3-0 in the third inning but O'Hara came back with two runs. Travis Peter's hit brought in the RBI's. The Celtics surged ahead in the fifth inning. Vince Saviano, Cullen Rowland, Aaron Stubblefield, and Joe Tucker got clean hits with Rowland getting one RBI and Tucker producing two. As time was running out, Fort Osage managed to bring the score to a tie. As a tournament game the outcome was governed by a time limit.