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The Maryland Class 1A West baseball tournament will conclude today at Boonsboro High School. The region semifinal game between Williamsport and Northern Garrett - suspended Wednesday with the Wildcats holding a 6-3 lead through five innings - will be completed at 11 a.m. Boonsboro will play the winner of that game in the region final at 1 p.m. The region champion advances to Tuesday's state semifinals at McCurdy Field in Frederick.

Funkstown wins in American Legion tourney FREDERICK, Md. - Funkstown Post 211 rebounded Sunday with an 18-6 victory over Frederick in the Maryland American Legion tournament at McCurdy Field. Funkstown, which lost in the winner's bracket semifinal Saturday to Sacerna Park, will play Damascus at 7 p.m. today. Post 211 pounded out 16 hits, including Simon Henry and Danny Fowler, who each had three. Henry had three RBI and Fowler had three runs scored. Josh Carter had two hits and four RBI and Aaron Showe and P.J. Hiser had two hits and two RBI for Funkstown (26-9)

BRUNSWICK, Md. - Will Delawter's opposite field, three-run homer off the scoreboard in the fifth inning was the decisive blow as Catoctin defeated Brunswick 5-2 Monday in the Class 1A South baseball final. Catoctin will face Elkton today at 4 p.m. in the 1A semifinals at McCurdy Field in Frederick, Md. Delawter smacked a curve ball from Railroaders starter Brian Baugher down the left field line. "Baugher, he's throwing 90, 91 (miles per hour) like he has been his last four, five outings," Cougars coach Mike Franklin said.

LEGION BASEBALL FREDERICK, Md. - Funkstown grabbed a 5-0 lead that held through four innings behind the pitching of Andy Taylor but Gaithersburg rallied to post an 8-7 win on Friday in the Maryland State Tournament at McCurdy Field. Taylor hit a solo home run to open the scoring in the second inning and Phillip Powell added homers in the fourth and sixth innings. Gaithersburg hit Funkstown with a five-run seventh inning, putting the loss on reliever Josh Bussard.

kauffman@herald-mail.com FREDERICK, Md. - More than a few teams would have panicked Tuesday after falling behind 2-0 early in the Class 1A semifinals. Not Catoctin. Not with seniors Justus Yocum and Chad Wolfe. Not with Will Delawter - a junior who pitched in the 4A final for Thomas Johnson last season. And not after last year's run to the state title game. Determined to get back to the final again, Yocum had two doubles and two RBI, Delawter tripled, singled and drove in two and Wolfe settled down after early trouble to strike out eight as the Cougars earned a return trip to the championship game with a 5-2 victory over Elkton at McCurdy Field.

Funkstown's Hiser whiffs Damascus By JACK HILL III / Staff Correspondent FREDERICK, Md. - Eight would have been more than enough for Funkstown Post 211 on Tuesday. P.J. Hiser made sure that one was sufficient. continued Hiser fired a five-hit shutout and struck out 14 to make a single second-inning run stand up as Funkstown squeezed by Damascus Post 171 1-0 in the Maryland American Legion State Baseball Tournament at McCurdy Field. Funkstown (27-9)

Post 211 sweeps district FUNKSTOWN - The players for Funkstown Post 211 obviously listened to their parents as children. Years later, they still know that "Walk, don't run" pays off in a big way. Funkstown drew 14 walks Saturday, including four in a row in the bottom of the ninth inning, to beat Mount Airy Gold Star Post 191 5-4 and sweep the Western Maryland District American Legion championship series. "We just came a long way to coming together as a team this year," Funkstown manager Darryl Powell said.

Post 211 can't rally twice Funkstown falls in semifinals of state tourney By DAN KAUFFMAN / Staff Writer FREDERICK, Md. - At first glance, it seemed pretty ironic that a Funk - Severna Park's Jason Funk - hit the game-winning three-run double that doomed Funkstown on Saturday in the Maryland American Legion tournament winner's bracket semifinal. But while Funk's two-out drive to the right-filed gap with the bases loaded in the seventh inning sparked Severna Park to the 8-6 victory at McCurdy Field, it was the error and two walks preceding his at-bat that ruined what had been a thrilling Funkstown comeback.

Post 211 cruises through By DAN KAUFFMAN / Staff Writer FREDERICK, Md. - In the end, Funkstown Post 211 got everything it wanted out of its opening game in the American Legion Maryland State Tournament. It got a big early lead thanks to a couple clutch hits and several Garrett miscues. It got to rest ace pitcher P.J. Hiser and give Ryan Wingerd and Josh Carter a couple low-stress innings of work. Most of all, it got an easy 10-2 victory over Garrett at McCurdy Field on Friday, the kind that allowed Funkstown to breathe easy before facing stiffer competition over the next couple of days.

LEGION BASEBALL States washed out FREDERICK, Md. - Heavy rain Sunday morning caused the postponement of the Maryland State Legion Baseball Tournament at McCurdy Field. The tournament schedule will be bumped back one day, with Funkstown Post 211 opening today's action at 10 a.m. against Salisbury in a losers' bracket game. Other games follow at 2 and 7 p.m. YOUTH LEAGUES Adam Kees Tournament at Maugansville Halfway 10, South Mountain 9: Brent Allen drove in the game-winning run in the seventh inning as Halfway won the tournament title.

Click here for more photos of Wednesday's game. FREDERICK, Md. -- Clear Spring's dreams of a state baseball title vanished into thin air Wednesday night. Literally. Harford Tech scored four runs in the fourth inning, helped by a pair of balls hit into the overcast, twilight sky that Blazers fielders never saw, and the Cobras went on to a 6-3 victory in the Maryland Class 1A state semifinals at McCurdy Field. "We've been a big-inning team all season, and tonight we got beat by one. ... We got in that twilight inning and lost the ball twice," Clear Spring coach Mark Shives said.

CLEAR SPRING -- Its top two pitchers combined to go 9-1 with a 1.22 ERA in the regular season. Its top nine hitters combined for a .404 average with 37 doubles and 20 home runs, scoring more than eight runs a game. No wonder Clear Spring's baseball team enters the state semifinals with a surplus of confidence. "Any given day we come to the park, we know we're going to hit and we know we're going to pitch," Blazers senior John Kehr said after Clear Spring won the Class 1A West region on Friday.

FUNKSTOWN - Funkstown American Legion Post 211 had its season ended Saturday afternoon by a pair of hits that never left the Funkstown Memorial Park infield. Mount Airy Post 191 scored three runs in the top of the seventh, sparked by two infield hits, to knock off Funkstown 10-7 in the first game of a doubleheader sweep and clinch the Western Maryland District second-half title. Mount Airy won the second game 5-0 and advances to the Maryland State Tournament at McCurdy Field in Frederick, Md., beginning Friday.

FREDERICK, Md. - Though Boonsboro's baseball season came to an end in Tuesday afternoon's Maryland Class 1A state semifinals at McCurdy Field, Warriors coach Max Shaffer kept things in perspective. "The guys have to realize what they accomplished. It's an honor to get this far," Shaffer said after Boonsboro fell to Snow Hill, 6-4. "I just told them, 'Thanks for the ride.' The kids did a marvelous job. " The Warriors (16-6) had their chances against the Eagles (20-4) and played well overall, but they never got the key hit they needed after Snow Hill's five-run second inning for a 6-3 lead.

BOONSBORO - All season long, Boonsboro ace Cam Shifler has gotten it done with his right arm. Locked in a pitcher's duel against Williamsport ace Aerik Taylor in Saturday's Maryland Class 1A West final, Shifler's bat made a difference, too. Trailing 2-1 in the sixth inning, Shifler jumped on a first-pitch fastball and roped a single to right-center field, scoring Jeremiah Mills with the tying run. Pinch runner Ryan Alick later scored the...

The Maryland Class 1A West baseball tournament will conclude today at Boonsboro High School. The region semifinal game between Williamsport and Northern Garrett - suspended Wednesday with the Wildcats holding a 6-3 lead through five innings - will be completed at 11 a.m. Boonsboro will play the winner of that game in the region final at 1 p.m. The region champion advances to Tuesday's state semifinals at McCurdy Field in Frederick.

PREP BASEBALL MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - Josh Simons pitched a complete game, allowing no earned runs and striking out 11 to lead Jefferson to a 6-1 win over Musselman in the West Virginia AAA Region II semifinals at P.O. Faulkner Park on Thursday. Simons also had a strong day at the plate, collecting two hits including a home run while also driving in three of the Cougars' six runs. Brian Collins, Brendan McLaughlin and Jonathan Hash each added two hits for the Cougars (30-6)

PREP BASEBALL FREDERICK, Md. - Robbie Mathias pitched a five-hitter and drove in both runs as Liberty handed No. 1 Frederick its first loss of the season, 2-0 Tuesday night in an MVAL Chesapeake Conference game at McCurdy Field. Mathias staked the Lions to a 1-0 lead with a first-inning sacrifice fly, then added a run-scoring double in the sixth. Mathias struck out four and walked none in a complete-game shutout. Mike Herald gave up five hits in five innings for the Cadets (12-1, 8-1)

Darryn DeShong picked up a victory in the Tri-State Junior Golf Association tournament at Beaver Creek Golf Course on Monday. DeShong won the 16-18 division with a 3-over-par 75, two strokes ahead of Kevin Reiber and Clayton Rotz. Steven Hutzell shot a 78 to win the 14-15 division and Alex Hoffman was first in the 12-13 division with a 78. Kacy Straub's 87 led the girls. The Tri-State Juniors conclude the year Aug. 16 with the championships at Black Rock. LEGION BASEBALL Funkstown ousted FREDERICK, Md. - Salisbury strung together five straight hits to build a four-run sixth inning to break a 1-1 tie en route to a 7-4 victory to eliminate Funkstown from the Maryland State American Legion tournament at McCurdy Field.

LEGION BASEBALL States washed out FREDERICK, Md. - Heavy rain Sunday morning caused the postponement of the Maryland State Legion Baseball Tournament at McCurdy Field. The tournament schedule will be bumped back one day, with Funkstown Post 211 opening today's action at 10 a.m. against Salisbury in a losers' bracket game. Other games follow at 2 and 7 p.m. YOUTH LEAGUES Adam Kees Tournament at Maugansville Halfway 10, South Mountain 9: Brent Allen drove in the game-winning run in the seventh inning as Halfway won the tournament title.