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Championship Final
Saturday June 3, 2000

Mt. Pleasant 7, St. Mark's 1
Mt. Pleasant (20-2)  330 100 0 - 7 10 0
St. Mark's (18-4)      001 000 0 - 1 4 4
Cochran and Wright. Henning and Proud. W- Henning (7-0) L- Cochran (6-1).
No extra base hits. SB- Mt. Pleasant 7 (Rogers 3, J. Savage, A. Savage, Holcomb, Winter. HBP: by Cochran (Holcomb 2, A. Savage) DP- Mt. Pleasant 1. Strikeouts; Henning 5, Cochran 2.

At 2 o'clock it was over to Frawley stadium to watch the Mt. Pleasant Green Knights win the baseball championship game with a 7-1 win over the defending champion St. Mark's Spartans.
The Spartans were never in this game. Mount scored three runs in the top of the first, and three in the second to open up the Spartan grave.
Brent Rogers went 4 for 4 with two RBI, stole three bases, and scored twice for the Knights, who won the first Mt. Pleasant team championship since the 1981 football team won the state title.
Rogers singled, stole second, and advanced to third on a error on a bad throw on the attempt to catch him stealing. Daryl Holcomb was then hit by a pitch. Both runners scored when Kevin Leach singled and reached third as St. Mark's made two throwing errors on the one play trying to catch runners advancing.
In the second inning, the Green Knights scored their three runs with two outs. Adam Pfister, Rogers, and Holcomb each stroked RBI singles
  Scott Henning (7-0) went the distance for Mount and drove in the third run in the first with a sacrifice fly. He pitched his way into near trouble when he became wild in the third inning. With one out and the bases loaded, he walked cleanup hitter and opposing pitcher Tom Cochran (6-1) to drive in the only Spartan run of the day.
But Henning picked Kevin Maloney off of second base for the second out, and then walked Al Blanchard to load the bases again which would have driven in the second run of the inning. Henning said, "We worked on that play everyday, it seems, since we were freshman, and it paid off big today."
Geoff Ashton then launched a deep fly to center, but it was tracked down by Jared Savage to end the inning and the threat.
  Mount stole seven bases in the game despite the best efforts by Tom Cochran. He picked five runners off of first, but four of them managed to slide in safely to second after poor throws to the bag.
Knight coach Rob Limmina said, "We told the guys to run with the first movement and hopefully either beat the throw from the first baseman or get a big enough jump where it was going to be difficult for the catcher to throw them out."
Limmina said," It's exciting, words just can't describe it. I'm happy for the kids and the coaching staff because I know how hard they've worked, and I'm happy for the school. There is nothing better than the first one."
The keys to the Green Knight success this year were pitching and defense, Limmina added. "They had great work ethic. They were unselfish. They had personal goals but never put them before the team goals.They wanted this and wanted to make this a reality, and that's what they did. This is a special group of kids. It's going to be difficult to let them go."
Mount Pleasant (20-2) becomes the first Blue Hen Conference Flight B baseball champion since Claymont in 1973 and prevented St. Mark's from becoming the first back-toback champions since Concord in 1981-82.

Semifinal Round
Thursday June 1, 2000

Mt Pleasant 7, Laurel 1
Laurel       (15-5)   000 100 0 - 1 6 5
Mt Pleasant (19-2) 011 140 x - 7 10 2
Phillips and Macklin. Holcomb and Proud. W- Holcomb (7-1). L-Phillips (9-1)
2B- L: Williams, MP: A. Savage, Holcomb, Rogers.

St. Marks 7, Dickinson 6
Dickinson   (15-6)   000 000 6 - 6 3 6
St. Mark's   (18-3)   110 001 5 - 7 8 1
Harden and McCain. Romanczuk, Radulski (7) Rash (7) and Wright. W- Rash (4-1) L- Harden (6-5)
2B- SM: Maloney 3B- D: Harden

Quarterfinal Round
Tuesday May 30, 2000

Laurel 6, Salesianum 3
Laurel (15-4)        400 010 1 - 6 9 1
Salesianum (18-2)000 002 1 - 3 5 1
Magee, Bolinkski (7) and Canuso. Boyce and Macklin.
W- Boyce (3-2) L- Magee (5-1) 2b- L: Phillips, Williams; S: Deelerme. 3b- S; Canuso. HR- L: Phillips

Dickinson 11, St. Elizabeth 5
Dickinson   (15-5)    154 100 0 - 11 11 1
St. Elizabeth(14-6)   010 400 0 - 5 6 6
Santiago, Underwood (4) and McCain. McGinnes, Raduszewski (2) and Zickraft. W- Santiago (5-0) L- McGinnes (4-4). 2b- D: Underwood 2, SE: Zickgraf. HR- D: McCain, SE: Zickgraf

Mt Pleasant 12, Caesar Rodney 2
C.R.    (15-5) 020 000 - 2 3 5
Mt.     (18-2) 114 024 -12 9 3
Demby, J. Strickland (3) and Sawyer. Henning, Pfister (6) and Prud. W- Henning (6-0). L-Demby (3-4). 2b- M: A. Savage. HR-M: Montana.

St. Marks's 7, Seaford 1
Seaford    (13-7)   100 000 0- 1 1 1
St. Marks (17-3)  240 001 x - 7 13 0
Vincent, Pegelow (2) and Komorowski. Cochran and Wright. 2b- SM: Cochran 2, Fitzgerald. Wright.

First Round
Saturday May 27, 2000

Salesianum 9, Tower Hill 2
Tower Hill (11-8) 101 000 0 - 2 5 7
Salesianum (18-1) 300 213 x-9 7 1
Ashton, Phillips (6) and Newcomb. Bolinski, Magee (7) and Canuso. W-Bolinski (9-1). L-- Ashton.
2B--TH: Dick. 3B-S: Canuso, Fromuth.

Seaford 2, William Penn 1
Seaford (13-6) 000 000 2 -- 2 3 2
William Penn (15-4) 000 000 1 -- 1 1 0
Truitt, Dunk (7) and Komorowski. Rogers and Robusto. W-- Truitt (4-4). L-- Rogers (9-2). S-- Dunk.

Laurel 3, Brandywine 2
Brandywine (14-5) 000 000 2-2 3 2
Laurel (14-4) 200 001 x-3 8 3
Willoughby and Santobianco. Phillips and Macklin. W-Phillips (9-0). L-Willoughby.
HR-L: Lewis.

St. Elizabeth 12, Milford 5
Milford 010 400 0- 5 8 3
St. Elizabeth 413 022 x-12 14 1
Barron, Craft (6) and Kenton. McGinnes, Raduszewski (4), Podolak (4) and Zickgraf. W-McGinnes (4-3). L-Barron (5-3).
2B-M: Craft; SE: Lewis 2, A. Swarter. 3B-M: White: Se: Fletcher. HR-S:E: Lewis.

Mount Pleasant 6, Delmar 0
Delmar (10-9) 000 000 0-0 5 1
Mount Pleasant (17-2) 230 001 x-6 9 0
Budd and Johnson. Holcomb, Pfister (7) and Proud. W-Holcomb (6-1). L-Budd. S-Pfister (1).
2B-MP: Pfister, Henning. 3B-MP: Holcomb.

Caesar Rodney 3, Caravel 2 (11 innings)
Caravel (9-9) 010 000 100 00-2 6 2
Caesar Rodney (15-4) 010 010 000 01-3 8 0
Robinette, Richardson (10) and Joyce. Snell and Sawyer. W-Snell. L-Richardson.
2B-Car: Crothers, Heath. HR-Car: Crothers, CR: Cassady.

St. Mark's 5, Glasgow 2
Glasgow (11-8) 002 000 0-2 3 2
St. Mark's (16-3) 011 201 x-5 7 1
Romanczuk and Wright. Haupt and Whitehead. W-Romanczuk (6-2). L-Haupt (5-2).
2B-SM: Zeccola. 3B-G: McLeroy.

Dickinson 11, Sussex Central 8
Dickinson       (14-5)  002 230 4 - 11 17 3
Sussex Cen.    (13-6)  304 000 1 - 8 8 2
Harden, Underwood (7), Harden (7) and McCain. Timmons, West (5), McCabe (5) and Hershelman. W- Harden (6-4), L-McCabe
2b- D: Nelson, Underwood, Thomas, Harden, Brown. HR- D: Underwood, Thomas.

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