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Tate High Aggies Advance To Tournament Championship
April 2, 2010
The Tate Aggies are headed to the championship game of the Aggie-Gata National Baseball Classic tournament Friday night after a win over Bartow.
The Aggies beat Bartow 5-4 Thursday to advance to play Gibbs High Friday night.
Bartow jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first inning. Tate closed the gap to 3-2 with a single by Adam Mack and Tevin Padgett was hit by a pitch.
Lee Hunter moved runners over to second and third. Tino Benjamin then hit a ground ball to the third baseman who made an error, scoring both Mack and Padgett.
Bartow scored a run in the top of the fourth to go up 4-2. Then in the bottom of the fifth, Tate had a single by Brandon Blackwelder and a double by Lee Hunter.
Benjamin hit a ground ball to Bartow’s shortstop scoring Blackwelder and tagging out Hunter. After two walks and with bases loaded, David Lee hit a high chopper in front of the pitcher who threw the runner out at home.
But the catcher hit Lee running to first trying to turn the double play. Two runs score and Lee ended up at third making the score 5-4 Tate.
In the top of the seventh, after two singles for Bartow and a sacrifice bunt to move runners to second and third with one out, Bartow tried a squeeze and popped it up to the catcher who threw to second for the double play to end the game.
Zach Mcculley picked up the win with six innings of work.
The Aggie-Gata tournament is a four-day, six-team tournament. Tate, Escambia and Pine Forest from Escambia County; Coral Reef High School from Miami; Gibbs High School from Knowville, Tenn.; and Bartow High School from Bartow, Fla., are taking part in the week.
Friday’s games are:
- 1:30 Pine Forest vs. Bartow
- 4:00 Coral Reef vs. Escambia
- 6:30 Tate vs. Gibbs (Championship)
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