SPORTS: West Seattle High School baseball team heading to state championships

6 PM: After two district-tournament wins in Bellevue right now – 4-1 over Stanwood and 6-5 over Walla Walla – the West Seattle HS baseball group is headed to state! Full story and images after we get again to HQ.

(WSB images)

ADDED 10:03 PM: The celebration adopted a tense remaining inning within the Wildcats’ sport in opposition to Walla Walla.

Senior Felix Schlede began on the mound for WSHS, and the sport was scoreless till the 4th inning.

Then Walla Walla went on a 4-0 run. However West Seattle refused to let the runs go unanswered, and broke its personal scoring drought within the backside of the 4th, beginning with 2 RBIs by #5. senior Nick Hazlegrove. The rating was tied at 4-4 earlier than the inning was out.

The Wildcats added two extra runs within the fifth, however then the Blue Devils tried a comeback, scoring 1 run within the high of the sixth, bringing the rating to 6-5, too shut for consolation, after which loading the bases within the high of the seventh, however Wildcats reliever Maddox Brent acquired out of the jam, and WSHS acquired the journey to state.

Hazlegrove was chosen Participant of the Recreation.

The Wildcats, 24-1 in Dylan Mclauchlin‘s first season as head coach, at the moment are within the state’s remaining 4, and so they’ll play Mercer Island at 7 pm Friday (Could twenty seventh) at Gesa Stadium in Pasco. The final WSHS look in regional/state competitors was 2014.