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Dragons sectional baseball champs (Updated with info for next game)
Saturday, June 12, 2010 12:59 PM


They have made their mark in DHS baseball history by going deeper into the playoffs than any baseball team before them. Coach Barney Earle’s Dragons are now the MIAA Division II South Sectional champions after defeating former State champ, Plymouth North, 5-0, on Friday afternoon in Brockton.
The win was the 17th straight for Duxbury, bringing its record to 21-2, as it gets ready to face undefeated (23-0) and No. 1 seed Masconomet on Tuesday night at 7 p.m. at Alumni Field in Lowell for the eastern Massachusetts crown.

Every win seems to produce a new star on the Duxbury roster, but in this case it was the veteran seniors who provided all the excitement in a game that was theirs from the opening pitch.

Senior pitcher Jeff Blout was exceptional, limiting the Eagles to four hits, while striking out 14 batters and looking as fresh in the seventh as he did at the start.

Plymouth North had its ace on the mound too in Jeff Agnew, and it took just two innings for the Dragons to get to the Eagle lefty.

Senior captain Pat McWilliams led off the inning with a double to left-center. The next two batters couldn’t advance McWilliams, bringing senior Connor Inglis to the plate with two outs. Inglis promptly singled to drive in McWilliams and advanced to second base on the throw to the plate. Senior Pat Sweeney wasted little time, as he continues to swing a torrid bat and brought home Inglis for the only two runs the Dragons would need.

Blout experienced his first bit of trouble in the third when after registering his fifth strikeout he surrendered a back-to-back walk and single. Brother Steve made an unassisted putout at first for the second out, advancing the runners to second and third with the murderous Matt Walsh strolling top the plate.

After inducing a couple of foul balls, it looked like Blout caught Walsh looking at a third strike, while the umpire saw it differently. It didn’t seem to faze the senior righty, who blew a fastball by Walsh for a third strike and an end to the uprising.

Blout would allow the Eagles two more hits in the fourth, but he also struck out the side and had whiffed nine of the 12 outs he had produced.

No lead is too large against Plymouth North, and the Dragons kept adding on when senior Greg O’Neal opened the bottom of the fourth with a single and advanced to second on a passed ball.

Jeff Agnew looked like he would get out of the inning with a strikeout and an infield out. However, the ever-dangerous Pat Sweeney (.400 plus) came to the plate and blasted a shot over the centerfielder’s head that rolled to the wall, scoring O’Neal and leaving Sweeney at third when Tom Kazanowski’s line drive was snagged with a leaping catch by the PN second baseman.

“Pat Sweeney (DH/No. 8 hitter) comes through again with two outs,” said Coach Earle. “He has been doing things like that all year long. That’s what you have to do to win games like this.”

Blout was in a relaxed groove all night long, limbering up between innings by running down the left field foul line and returning to the dugout and meditating thru Zen.

After walking a batter to start the fifth, and hitting Walsh on the left shoulder after two were out, Blout settled down and blew a fastball by Mike Cahill to kill another rally and preserve his 3-0 lead.

It was beginning to look like the Eagles had no solution for solving Blout, and if they did, it was going to be even harder after the bottom of the fifth.

After junior Joe Coyne flied out to deep right field, senior Tommy Guilfoile stroked a single to left. Senior captain Matt Savard came up to the plate, hoping to contribute in some way to his team’s gutsy performance. With one swing of the bat he brought the crowd out of its seat at Campanelli Stadium with a titanic home run blast that traveled over 400 feet and over the left-centerfield fence to bring home Guilfoile for a 5-0 lead.

“I had struck out in my first two at-bats, so I was a little frustrated,” said Savard. “The coach told me to relax up there, so I saw my pitch and went after it. I guess it went pretty far.”

Blout continued to mow the Eagles down with two more strikeouts in the sixth inning, and was aided by an outstanding defensive play at shortstop by Kazanowski, who dove to his left and saved the ball from going through, getting a force play at second base.

The Zen master went to the mound in the seventh, just like had had been doing all afternoon, and ended the game with consecutive strikeouts to put the Dragons in the finals.

“We play loose and we play together,” said Blout. “And when we battle, no one can touch us. I just try to stay calm out there, and I know my fastball is pretty good. If I can just hit my spots and they are making the plays behind me, I just have to throw strikes.”

DIRECTIONS TO ALUMNI FIELD IN LOWELL

From Route 495 take exit 38 (Route 38) north toward Lowell. Go past Market Basket Shopping Plaza to USA Gas Station. Take a right after the gas station. Alumni Field is on the left.

Same complex as Cawley Stadium in Lowell where the girls' soccer team played their EMass final in '08.
 

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