BLYTHEWOOD, SC - The Boiling Springs baseball team entered their game against Blythewood in familiar territory, having to win two to move on, but the magic from this miraculous run finally ran out on Wednesday night as they fell to Blythewood 8-6 to end their season just short of the 5A state championship series.
During the run through the 2023 5A playoffs it didn't seem like the magic was ever going to run out for this team as they entered Wednesday night with an unreal 6-0 record in elimination games. In the first part of the game on Wednesday night, it seemed like the magic was going to keep going for this team as they held a pretty strong lead with just a few innings left until a possible game two. Blythewood took the first lead in the bottom of the first inning as L Penfield worked a walk before eventually coming around to score on an infield single by C Weathers to put the Bengals up 1-0. In the third inning Boiling Springs took their first lead of the game which started with Titus Hutchins getting on base with an infield single before moving to second base on a Luke Compton groundout to first base. Hutchins tied the game for the Bulldogs at 1-1 when Justin Dawkins roped a double to leftfield. Dawkins moved to third base on a Jackson Cole single to right field with two outs while Cole was able to move to second base on the Bengals throw. Corben Childers followed Cole to the plate delivering a single to centerfield that scored both Dawkins and Cole to put the Bulldogs up 3-1 over the Bengals. L Penfield struck again for the Bengals in the bottom of the fourth inning as he hit a two-out homerun to centerfield to cut the Bulldogs lead to 3-2. Boiling Springs bounced back in the top of the fifth inning as Luke Compton led off the inning with a single and later scored on a Jackson Cole single to left field to make the lead 4-2 in favor of the Bulldogs. Cole advanced to second base on a Corben Childers single to right field before both advanced to second and third bases as Rylee Douglas worked a walk to load the bases. Cole made the lead 5-2 when he scored on a wild pitch to Chansen Cole before he also brought home Childers later in the at-bat on a single to left field to make the score 6-2 in favor of Boiling Springs. In the bottom of the fifth inning Blythewood scored four runs to tie the game at 6-6, with three of those runs scoring with two outs. They ended up adding two more runs in the bottom of sixth inning to take an 8-6 lead and the Bulldogs were unable to respond. While the season didn't end the way that the Bulldogs had hoped, the 2023 Bulldogs baseball team left their fans with a lot of special memories as they won a region championship, a district championship, and were the Upper State runners-up, all while having to battle back for each of those. It's a team that will be remembered by their fans as a team that refused to give up and when their backs were against the wall they responded in impressive fashion as after losing their season series to Dorman to start region play, they then went 8-1 in region play to capture the region and like was mentioned earlier went a combined 6-1 in elimination games during the 5A playoffs, which is almost unheard of as it included victories over two of the top 10 teams in state against Lexington and TL Hanna. Earlier this week, Bulldogs head coach Jeff Lipscomb talked about how proud he was of the resiliency of this Boiling Springs baseball team. "This team has had their backs against the wall numerous times this season," said Lipscomb. "Whenever we loss this year they just bounced back and that's a sign of a good team. I'm just really proud of this group of guys." With the loss against Blythewood, the Bulldogs now will say goodbye to 10 seniors who have been key pieces to the Boiling Springs program over the years. Those seniors are Aaron Sewell, Andrew Coley, Rylee Douglas, Jackson Cole, Luke Compton, Hudson Wilson, Jackson Reel, Corben Childers, Mason Collins, and Ty Stanford. Comments are closed.
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