Very tight game all the way through. I believe NCC put a couple on the board in the bottom of the 6th to get a little breathing room.

he Newport Central Catholic Thoroughbreds baseball team shut out the Bellevue Tigers, 4-0 in the 36th District semifinals Monday.

Josh Cain pitched the first six innings and threw a masterpiece striking out 11 and walking one for the Thoroughbreds (20-12). Teammate Colin DuPont pitched the seventh as the two allowed just six hits.

 

The Thoroughbreds did not score until the fourth inning. They scored one in each of the fourth and fifth innings before adding two insurance runs in the sixth.

 

NewCath managed nine hits against Bellevue pitcher Briley Seiter. Cain, Connor Bartels and Kevin Hoffstedder all managed two hits each for the Thoroughbreds. Cain, Bartels and Alex Grau had doubles for NewCath and DuPont tripled.

 

The Thoroughbreds also displayed their aggressive base running. Cain swiped tw bases with Bartels and Hoffstedder nabbing one each.

 

The Tigers did not record any extra-base hits. Zack Poinsette and Tate Grainger both went 2-for-3 to lead them offensively.

 

The second-seeded Thoroughbreds receive two days off before playing host to the district championship at Morscher Field on Thursday. Game time is 5 p.m.

Sounds like a great game. With a couple breaks going their way, NCC can make a deep run in the regionals in my opinion.

Not surprised by this score at all. Bellevue has a quality team. This sounds a lot like the game Bellevue played a few weeks ago against CovCath. If CovCath didn't get such a great effort by its starting pitcher, Bellevue wins that game. Congrats to NCC.