Trailblazers top Cathedral for first time

The REPORTER

The University baseball team got a historic win over Cathedral 6-5 Thursday at RoundTripper Academy.

The Trailblazers scored four runs in the first inning. Ryan Castetter scored after Cooper Cammack drew a bases-loaded walk, then Oliver Kingery got home when Finn Steiner drew a walk. Beckett Suh scored on David Gasper’s sacrifice fly, then Cammack got home on Quinn Green’s RBI groundout.

Philip Jacobs doubled in Cammack for a third-inning run and University led 5-0. The Irish burst back in the fifth inning, scoring five runs to tie the game. But Castetter blasted a double in the sixth inning and scored Green for what would be the game-winning run.

Castetter finished with two hits. Steiner pitched two innings for the win, striking out four. Cammack pitched four innings, also striking out four.

University is 15-6 and hosts Park Tudor on Tuesday for the Pioneer Conference championship.

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Westfield edged out Zionsville 3-2 in a Thursday home Hoosier Crossroads Conference game.

Both teams scored a run in the first inning; Andrew Noble got the Shamrocks on the board by scoring on a wild pitch. Beck Jordan singled in Maddox Novotney for a fifth-inning run, then Gabe Garcia got home in the sixth inning on Gavin Russ’ sacrifice fly.

Aiden Grabowski and Nick Fero both had two hits; one of Grabowski’s hits was a triple. James Kovacs went two innings for the pitching win, while starter Corey Wilhelm pitched four strikeouts in five innings.

Westfield is 5-4 in the conference and 10-8-1 overall and plays at Zionsville tonight to complete the conference series.

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Fishers also picked up an HCC victory on Thursday, beating Avon 3-2.

Both teams scored two runs in the bottom of the second inning. Andrew Baldini singled in both of the Tigers’ runs, scoring Asher Nelson and Vincent Pecoraro. Baldini scored the winning run, getting home on a wild pitch in the seventh inning.

Baldini had two hits. Hayden Werner threw six innings, striking out seven. Grant Wolf relieved him in the seventh and got the win, striking out all three Avon batters.

Fishers is 6-4 in HCC play and 10-12 overall. The Tigers host McCutcheon tonight.