The Bayfield High School baseball team stayed undefeated in league play with a pair of dominate wins over the weekend. Bayfield traveled Saturday to Pagosa Springs and with relative ease dispatched the Pirates 15-1 and 13-1, with each half of the doubleheader ending after just five innings, to improve to 6-0 in the 3A Intermountain League.
Putting seven runs up during the top of the first inning in Game 1, then a clinching seven in the fifth, BHS got three runs batted in from sophomore outfielder Micah Cornelia. He went 2-for-3 with a double and a run scored. Leadoff hitter Nic Twedt drew two walks and ended up 1-for-2 with a double, two runs and two RBIs. Fellow senior Caden Wood went 3-4 with three runs.
Freshman Tavian Box went 1-3, drew a walk and scored twice. Senior Noah Chamblee went 0-2, but was walked, hit by a pitch, scored once and earned one RBI. Beaned twice, senior Jackson Queen ended up 0-0 with a sacrifice fly, one run and two batted in.
Earning a complete-game win on the mound, senior Lance Mazur (5 IP, H, R, BB, 7 K) went 2-4 with a run and one batted in. Senior Braylon Cotts (L; 0.1 IP, 7 ER, 3 BB, 0 K) rapped a first-inning double off Mazur for PSHS’ only hit. Junior Riley Laugel, aboard after being plunked by Mazur, logged Springs’ lone run.
Victorious on the bump in Game 2, Queen allowed a reported three hits, walked just one Pirate and struck out 10 in his five-inning full pull. Bayfield, at the time ranked No. 6 in the CHSAANow.com Class 3A poll, improved to 15-3 overall with the win while dropping Pagosa to 8-13, 2-6 IML.
Leading the way offensively, Chamblee belted a home run and went 1-for-2 with a walk, two runs and as many batted in. Queen went 1-2 with a sacrifice fly, a run and two RBIs in his own support. Cornelia went 2-3 with a run and one RBI. Twedt went 2-4 with a run and one batted in. Junior Dante Candelaria cracked a double and ended up 1-3 with two runs and two batted in. Wood walked twice and scored twice despite finishing 0-1.
Red-hot and on an eight-game winning streak, the Wolverines will wrap up regular-season play on Saturday at Montezuma-Cortez with the IML title on the line. Also 6-0 in IML action and now winners of 11 straight following a 14-2, 9-0 sweep of Centauri (8-13, 0-8 IML) in La Jara, the Panthers stand a solid 17-3 overall.
First pitch of the deciding doubleheader is set for 11 a.m.
1. Eaton, 2. Greeley University, 3. Arvada Faith Christian, 4. New Castle Coal Ridge, 5. BAYFIELD, 6. MONTEZUMA-CORTEZ, 7. Loveland Resurrection Christian, 8. Westminster The Academy, 9. Sterling, 10. Delta.
