Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Mamou advances past Oakdale to reach the best-of-three second round

Mamou advances past Oakdale to reach the best-of-three second round
 It took five innings for Mamou to dispose of Oakdale in the opening game of the baseball playoffs as the Demons won 10-0 at home Monday night. Mamou now looks like it will travel to Many for a best-of-three series in the second round.
Head coach Dale Serie was pleased with his team’s performance coming into the season. “We did well,” he said. “We’re right at about 20 wins. We’ve been playing well as of late. Seven out of our last eight games we won. We had a tough district. Overall we’re young. We have three seniors, two start. So we got a ton of experience we gained this year and a ton of experience coming back.”
Starting on the mound against Oakdale was junior Li’l Paul Williams. “He’s come on as of late,” his coach said. “He’s emerged as one of our top guys a little bit later in the season.”
Serie knew what to expect from his Warrior opponents. “I know Brent McKoy does a good job with them,” he said before the game. “Typically they’re pretty good. They’ll swing the bats real well. It’s gonna be a dogfight. We’re expecting to be in a war.”
The war that Serie was expecting turned rather one sided. The pitching woes that plagued the Warriors to end the season continued against Mamou. Hunter Longino got the start on the mound and labored in the first inning walking four batters including the first three in the Demon lineup. The defense behind him cost him two runs as a dropped pop up at shortstop allowed two runs to come across the plate for Mamou. 
It then took three Oakdale pitchers to pitch into and out of the second inning. Longino was pulled from the game after facing the first batter in the inning. Terrence Holmes came in and walked two of the four batters he faced. Nick Doyle then came in to pitch and settled things down, but the damage was done as Mamou plated seven runs in the inning.
“That inning was big,” said Serie about the second inning. “We executed some bunts. We executed some things we needed to do. We wanted to test their corner guys. Wanted to test their bunt defense. We were just successful putting some timely hits together, and it worked out in our favor.”
On the other side of the coin, Williams struck out five Warriors in his five innings of work. He walked one, hit a batter, and only allowed one hit that came in the fourth inning. “He was good,” said Serie. “He was real crisp. His fastball was working real good. He painted the corners real good. He kept in knee high just like we worked. He was on today.” 
“Many’s in the same district with Oakdale,” said Serie about Mamou’s possible next opponent. “Oakdale’s beat them once, so it gives us a little confidence going in. And we played some teams Many played, so I think it’ll be a great series.”

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