O'Hara Beats Oak Grove For District Baseball Championship

On May 18, the Archbishop O'Hara High School baseball team won a close 4-3 game with Oak Grove for the Class 3 District 14 Championship. _____ Logan Halil pitched for the winning Celtics striking out eight in the game. _____ O'Hara came from behind scoring two runs in their half of the last inning. _______ The key hit was a triple by Cullen Rowland. _____ Ben Janet was three for four at bat and Caleb Schmitt made a diving catch to end the game with the tying run on base. _____ Coach William Mayle commented, "Our team went up in the third inning with two outs and a triple by Ben Janet. This was followed up by another triple by Caleb Schmitt. Moments later Caleb stole home to put the Celtics up 2-0." _____ In the fourth inning, a two run homer tied up the game. Oak Grove added a run in the fifth to take the lead. _____ "The magic started in the seventh inning," Coach Mayle said, "after two outs, Cullen Rowland hit his triple over the left fielder's head scoring Jacob Chichuk. Ben Janet came up huge with the game winning hit and RBI." _____ "Logan Halil Pitched through seven complete innings registering eight strike outs and issuing no walks. The defense was spectacular and had no errors." _____ Then he added, "the defense played errorless ball and had fantastic plays from Eric Sullentrup, Alex Higinbotham, and Preston Kralicek." _____The next game for the Celtics will be with Clinton on May 24. ______ O'Hara reached the final round with a 3-2 win with Odessa and Oak Grove advanced to the championship game on an 8-2 decision over Pembroke Hill. _____ In their semi-final game, Cullen Rowland pitched for the Celtics. ______ In earlier rounds O'Hara won a game with Southwest 13-2 and Pembroke Hill defeated Center 21-0.