The Blue Mountain Major Division baseball team will officially be competing for a state championship.<\/p>\n
On Friday night, Blue Mountain defeated Newtown Edgmont 9-2 out of Section 8 and District 19 to advance to the Pennsylvania state championship round starting on Monday evening.<\/p>\n
Eight different Blue Mountain hitters recorded RBI in the win including Judein Marx leading the team with a pair of RBI.<\/p>\n
Blue Mountain jumped out to an early lead on Friday night, scoring four runs in the second, including Owen Borger driving in one run with a single down the left field line. They\u2019d tack on another run in the third thanks to a Chase Goodman double.<\/p>\n
Newtown Edgemont picked up a pair of runs in the third, but Blue Mountain put the game away with a three-run fourth inning before Anthony Grimminger put an exclamation point on the win with a solo home run in the fifth.<\/p>\n
Chase Goodman got the start, pitching four innings, striking out four while working around two hits and three walks. Max Porrino pitched two-thirds of an inning, striking out one and allowing a hit before Grimminger closed out the last inning and a third, striking out two.<\/p>\n
Coming out of the winner\u2019s bracket with a perfect 3-0 record this week, Blue Mountain will have the advantage in the championship round having to lose twice to be eliminated, while only having to win once.<\/p>\n
If Blue Mountain loses on Monday to Newtown winner Edgmont vs. either East Side or Hollidaysburg, they\u2019ll have a chance at redemption on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The winner of next week\u2019s championship round will advance to the Mid-Atlantic Regional to be held from August 8 through August 14 in Bristol, Connecticut. The eventual Mid-Atlantic champion will represent the region at this year\u2019s Little League World Series in Williamsport starting on August 19.<\/p>\n
The last Schuylkill County team to win the Pennsylvania state tournament was Pottsville\u2019s 1997 Railway Park team that went on to represent the Mid-Atlantic region in the Little League World Series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blue Mountain Major Division baseball team will officially be competing for a state championship. On Friday night,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[305,28,30,29,726],"class_list":["post-256908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-high-school-sports","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}