Bay Port beats Preble to earn trip to state - Green Bay Press Gazette
The Bay Port baseball team can pack its bags for the WIAA Division 1 state tournament. The Pirates beat Green Bay Preble 5-1 in a sectional championship at VandenPlas Field on Tuesday afternoon, earning a trip to state for the fourth straight year and the 12th time overall. They will play Oconomowoc in a state quarterfinal at 1 p. m. Tuesday at Fox Cities Stadium in Grand Chute, the stadium in which they won back-to-back state titles in 2009 and 2010. "The thing about this team here is that there have been such high... But all the way through, undefeated conference season late in the season, the expectations have been very high. Bay Port had beaten Preble by a combined 25-1 in two meetings this season, but this took far more work to get done. In a lineup dominated by seniors, it was sophomore Quinn Pierner who finally got Bay Port on the board in the bottom of the fourth inning. His two-out RBI single to right field made it 1-0 in what at that point had been a pitching duel between Preble sophomore right-hander Griffin Summers and Bay Port senior right-hander Joe Baier. Preble had a few scoring opportunities early in the game — including runners on first and second with one out in the first inning and a runner on second with two outs in the third — but none better than the sixth, when the team loaded the bases... Source: www.greenbaypressgazette.com
