Wayzata Baseball Loses Heartbreaker in State Semifinals
The Wayzata baseball team lost for the first time this season, falling 5-4 in eight innings to Mounds View in the state class AAAA semifinals.
After Mounds View scored single runs in the first and fourth innings to lead 2-0, Wayzata’s bats came alive in the bottom of the fourth as they started the inning with three straight hits and tied the game 2-2. Brady Lash’s double scored Gaard Swenson, who tripled leading off the inning. Lash scored on a groundout by Adam Deselich.
The Mustangs regained the lead on a sacrifice fly by Jack Glancey in the fifth. Glancey’s fly to right scored Adam Sperbeck, who had tripled.
Mounds View held the 3-2 lead in the sixth with the help of a successful hidden ball trick to retire a runner at third.
Wayzata’s Swenson came through with a clutch hit with two outs in the bottom of the seventh as he drove in Kieran Leatherman with the tying run to send the game to extra innings. Mounds View scored twice in the top of the eighth, and despite getting one run in the bottom of the frame the Trojans couldn’t tie it again.
Wayzata did bounce back to beat Forest Lake 3-0 in the third place game to finish 26-1.
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