WIAA State Summer Baseball Championships Today
Friday, July 19th, 2013 -- 6:35 AM
The 49th Annual WIAA Summer Baseball State Tournament will take place today at Kapco Park on the campus of Concordia University in Mequon.Action will begin at noon with the first of two semifinals followed by the championship game at 6:35 p.m. Ticket prices for the tourney are $8 per session and are available only at the park.
Friday, July 19
Semifinals - Noon
Game #1 - Sheboygan Falls (17-11) vs. West Bend West (23-8)
Game #2 - Kettle Moraine (25-5) vs. New Berlin West (24-5)*
Championship Final - 6:35 p.m.
Game #3 - Winner of Game #1 vs. Winner of Game #2
STATE GAMES ON THE WEB: The semifinals and finals of the WIAA State Summer Baseball Tournament will be streamed live on foxsportswisconsin.com.
TOURNAMENT FIELD: West Bend West will be making its 13th appearance at the State Tournament and its eighth in the last 10 seasons. The Spartans won State titles in 1972, 1984 and 2007, and have had runner-up finishes in 1981, 2010 and in 2011. They finished fourth in the North Shore Conference this year and qualified through the Cedarburg Sectional with a 4-3 win over Nicolet in the final. Sheboygan Falls returns to the State Tournament for the third straight season and for the fifth time overall. The Falcons won the championship in 1973. This season, they finished third in the Eastern Wisconsin Conference, and they advance from the sectional final held at Campbellsport with a 3-1 victory over Kewaskum. New Berlin West makes its second overall appearance and its first since its only other appearance in 2010. The Vikings lost in the quarterfinals in that initial experience. They defeated Muskego 3-2 in the Whitnall Sectional final to advance to the State semifinals. They were champions in the West Division of the Woodland Conference this season. Kettle Moraine is making its third appearance at State. The Lasers? two other appearances resulted in a State title in 1988 and a runner-up finish in 2008. They finished atop the Classic 8 Conference standings this summer and are the qualifiers out of the Brookfield Central Sectional following a 3-0 win over Pius XI in the final.
LAST YEAR: Oak Creek won its membership-leading fourth State championship by defeating Germantown 5-4 in the championship game. The Knights erased a 4-0 deficit with four runs in the bottom of the sixth inning and scored the winning run in the seventh. Three of the four runs scored by the Knights in the sixth were unearned on three Germantown errors. Tanner Johnson, Riley Shelton and Dakota Slone led the Knights offense, each with a pair of hits.
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