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Ware YMCA Graduates News Page B3 Page B6 SSentinel.com Serving Middlesex County and adjacent areas of the Middle Peninsula and Northern Neck since 1896 Vol. 119, No. 10 Urbanna, Virginia 23175 • June 6, 2013 B Section Surry nips MHS 6-5 in regional semifi nals by Tom Chillemi one walk. “He pitched well enough to win,” said Blake. “It’s a shame we The Middlesex High baseball team’s couldn’t pull it out.” season ended in a 6-5 loss at Surry on In the fi nals on Friday, May 29 in the semifi nals of the Divi- Rappahannock defeated Surry 9-5. sion 1, Region A Tournament. Both teams advanced to the state tour- Surry took a 2-0 lead in the second nament. inning of the see-saw game. All-District Middlesex scored 3 runs to go Making fi rst team All-Tidewater ahead 3-2 in the top of the third District for Middlesex was outfi elder inning. Andrew Dozier, Kyle Lawson Andrew Dozier, a senior who batted and Hunter Davis singled to load the .296 and led the Chargers in runs with bases. John Purcell singled in Dozier 14. and K. Lawson, and Chris Blake The Chargers claimed fi ve positions brought Davis home with a single. on the second team. Jeremy Collier, a Surry tied the game 3-3 in the senior, compiled a pitching 4-3 record bottom of the third inning. with a 2.31 ERA, and batted .280. He MHS scored once in the top of the was named second team pitcher and fi fth when Purcell doubled and scored second team utility player. on Blake’s single. Senior Hunter Davis made second Surry responded with 3 runs in the team at fi rst base. He batted .362, and bottom of the fi fth to take a 6-4 lead. led the team in hits with 17. In the sixth, K. Lawson doubled Senior Trey Major, who batted Deltas shortstop Colby Wiggins (Gloucester High School/Chowan University) dives into home ahead of the and scored on Jeremy Collier’s double .269, also made the second team as an tag to win Saturday’s fi rst game. (Photo by Stephen Blue) to narrow Surry’s lead to 6-5. outfi elder. In the top of the seventh, the Char- Sophomore Chris Blake batted gers left 2 runners stranded on base, .282 and made second team at second bringing the total number of Chargers base. left on base in the game to 11. The Chargers lose seven seniors to Houston, Wiggins rally Deltas past “We out-hit them, out played graduation, most of whom were start- them defensively, but still lost,” said ing players. Middlesex coach Tim Blake. “They “John Purcell did a good job behind Cardinals; to host Pirates Saturday never hit the ball hard all day long, the plate for us,” said Blake. “He fi n- but they seemed to fi nd a hole. We ished strong at the plate in the regional by Stephen Blue hit the ball hard all day, but right at playoffs. He will be missed.” people.” Blake also said Zach Belcher “had The Deltaville Deltas split a double- K. Lawson started on the mound a good year at third base . he was header with the Newport News Cardi- of Middlesex and went the distance. strong defensively.” nals on Saturday night, winning a wild He scattered 6 hits—none for extra opening game with a Jacob Houston bases—struck out 7 and gave up just (See Baseball, page B2) walk-off single, 9-8. The Deltas fell in the nightcap, 6-3. The losses were the fi rst of the season for both the Cardinals and Several Chargers turn in Deltas. Deltaville moved to 4-1 on the season, and is ½-game behind the personal-best performances league-leading Peninsula Pirates (5-1) in the Southern Virginia Adult Base- ball League (SVABL) standings. New- at the State Group A meet port News (3-1) sits in third place. This weekend, the Deltas host the by Larry Chowning cluded Coach Anderson. Pirates at Deltaville Ballpark at 7:30 “I could not have been prouder of p.m. on Saturday, June 8. The Deltas The boys and girls Middlesex High these boys and girls who competed travel to Williamsburg to face the School track teams had no one place for Middlesex,” said Anderson. “I can Pirates on Sunday, June 9, for a 4 p.m. but several Chargers registered per- see a very bright future for Middlesex game at Jamestown High School. sonal best performances at the State track and fi eld.” Deltas 9, Cardinals 8 Group A meet at Radford University MHS girls coach Johann Odom said Down 4 runs in the bottom of the on Saturday. this year’s team was “very young” fi nal inning, many would assume the Lady Charger Brittin Payne had but added that “we will be graduating Deltas were done for in game one of a personal best throw in the shot put several seniors.” The seniors include Saturday’s doubleheader. (32’6”) and fi nished 11th overall in the Shannon Bristow, Bianca Rios, Nila It may be cliché, but “that’s why they state meet. Leigh Harrow had a per- Robinson, Keeley Vollmer and Kabri play the game.” sonal best in the 1,600 meters (6:03.79) Young. Deltaville scored 5 runs in the bottom and fi nished 19th. She also fi nished “These young ladies did a wonder- of the 7th, capped by a Jacob Houston 22nd in the 3,200 meters (14:00.63). ful job in leading our youth and setting walk-off single to win, and the Deltas In boys track, sophomore Ridge Ellis good examples of sportsmanship and defeated the Cardinals 9-8. had two personal best times, fi nishing helping to demonstrate how to be track With Deltaville trailing 8-4, Robert 9th in the 1,600 meters (4:47.04) and athletes,” said Odom. “The future looks Shermer started the rally, leading off Deltas pitcher Harley Moore (Middlesex High School/Dickinson Col- 13th in the 800 meters (2:08.79). Malik good for our program and we are look- the inning with a double. After a Scott lege) struck out 8 of the 9 batters he faced in 3 innings of work. Green fi nished 11th in the 400 meters ing forward to developing a fi ne group Crump walk, Ryan Reynolds plated (Photo by Stephen Blue) with a personal best time (52.19). of young ladies into a high-performing Shermer with an RBI double. Alex- Cullen Johnson tied his personal best winning team.” ander Crittenden drew another walk cutting the lead to 8-7. with a solo home run in the 3rd, and time in the 800 meters (2:17.82). Radford scored 67 points to win the to load the bases, and after a Cardi- Ryan Wiggins then lifted a broken Deltaville responded in the 4th with an Greg Robinson fi nished 26th in the boys state title, and James River scored nal pitching change, Colby Wiggins bat single into left fi eld to tie the game. RBI single by Reynolds. 300-meter hurdles (48.03), and Robert 62 points to win the girls state title. ripped a single to score 2 more runs, Finally, Houston punched a single A defensive error allowed the Car- Lemon was 20th in the long jump through the infi eld, and C. Wiggins dinals to take the lead again in the (19’1”). dove head fi rst (see photo) into home, 5th, 4-3, but again Deltaville tied the The Chargers fi nished last in the beating the throw to the plate to win game in the bottom of the inning on a championship heat of the 4x400 meter the game. Shermer RBI single. relay but it was the best race of the day The rally capped a back and forth In the top of the 7th, the Cardinals for the Chargers. Coach Joel Ander- thriller, which saw the Cardinals take bats came alive, stringing together 3 son gave the following blow-by-blow the lead, and the Deltas tie the game 3 hits and 2 walks to take an 8-4 advan- account of the race: times in the fi rst 6 innings. tage. But it was not enough to hold off “Joseph Nordan came out of the After the Cardinals took a 2-0 lead the Deltas in the bottom half of the blocks like a bullet and ran the fi rst in the top of the 2nd inning, Deltaville inning. lap in 53 seconds. The hand-off was fi red right back with a single by Bran- Reggie Johnson started on the to Ridge Ellis who was in 3rd or 4th don Light and back-to-back doubles by mound for Deltaville, allowing 4 runs place when he got the baton. He Shermer and Crump, tying the game (3 earned) on 5 hits. Will Barrack was hawked down all of the pack to put us 2-2. neck-and-neck for second place. Tarik The Cardinals reclaimed the lead (See Deltas, page B2) Audain got the baton and did his best split ever, keeping us in the hunt for a medal. “He handed off to Malik Green who Final signup is Saturday sprang out the fastest I’ve ever seen with the type of adrenalin that could have resulted in a 50-second fl at 400 for Colts youth football meters. Then it happened—the team we were battling with tried to force The Middlesex Colts Youth Football Mites, 8-9 year olds; Midgets, 10-11 the lead on the fi rst curve and once the Association will hold fi nal registration year olds; and the Juniors, 12-14 year opposing runner cut in front of Malik, for the 2013 season on Saturday, June olds.