The Camas baseball team recovered quickly after a one-run loss on Tuesday by steamrolling Bellarmine Prep 8-1 on Wednesday in the 4A bi-district tournament and keeping its season alive.
A seven-run fourth inning put the game out of reach.
Aaron Sung grounded into a fielder’s choice to bring home the Papermakers’ first run and tie the game at 1-1. Diego Trujillo hit a sacrifice fly to score the go-ahead run.
The Papermakers then strung together a two-run double by Matthew Manjooran, an RBI single by Jake Swenson, a run-scoring double by Holt Williams, and an RBI single by Max Fraser — all with two outs — to make it 8-1.
Bellarmine did load the bases with no outs in the seventh, but Ryan McClaskey came on in relief for Camas and retired the side on two strikeouts and a ground out.
Camas will play Kennedy Catholic in a winner-to-state game Saturday at Heritage Field.
KENNEDY CATHOLIC 5, UNION 4, 8 INNINGS — Kennedy Catholic’s Peter Hollabaugh hit a two-out grand slam in the bottom of the eighth inning to end the Titans’ season.
Union broke a 1-1 tie in the top of the eighth with a two-run single by Dylan Richardson and a hit by Ty Sutton.
3A bi-district baseball
PRAIRIE 5, AUBURN 3 — The Falcons were able to hold off Auburn’s seventh-inning rally to advance, where they will play 3A GSHL rival Kelso in a winner-to-state game on Saturday.
Prairie led 5-0 going into the seventh. The Falcons scored three runs in the first inning, the first coming in on a double play and two more and Brayden Petrowski’s base hit.
Two bases-loaded walks brought in two more runs in the fifth inning.
Auburn made two quick outs in the seventh before three hits and an error helped to bring in its three runs. Prairie ended the rally and the game with a fly out.
Kelso was a 10-1 winner over Capital.
Softball stars of the day
- McKayla White, Evergreen softball, doubled home what proved to be a key insurance run in the sixth inning as the Plainsmen beat Heritage 7-6.
- Alex Yelverton, Union softball, drove in the go-ahead run for the Titans in the sixth inning of their 3-2 win at Prairie.
- Annali Lindersmith, Battle Ground softball, went 3 for 4 with four RBI and two runs scored in the Tigers’ 12-0 win over Mountain VIew.
- Madeline Smith, Ridgefield softball, was 3 for 4 with a double, and a three-run home run in the Spudders’ 11-4 win over Hockinson.
- Jadyn Terry, R.A Long softball, pitched a one-hit shutout of Woodland with 16 strikeouts and one walk. She was also 2 for 4 at the plate with a run scored.
- Makenzie Henthorn, Mark Morris softball, struck out 15 Columbia River batter and also hit a three-run home run in the Monarchs’ 8-2 win.
- Kaci McNew and Hillary Zimmerman, Kelso softball, hit back-to-back home runs for the tying and go-ahead runs in the sixth inning of an 8-7 win over Camas.
