The Meadowdale Mavericks earned a 3-1 victory over Peninsula at Bellevue’s Bannerwood Park Saturday morning, then fell to Mount Si 7-2 in the afternoon, ending their hopes of making it to semifinals of the state 3A baseball tournament next week.

In the Mount Si contest, Meadowdale was tied with the Wildcats 2-2 in the top of the fourth, but Mount Si pushed across five runs in the fifth inning, building a lead that the Mavs couldn’t overcome.

You can read sports correspondent Quint Turner’s recap of the Mavs-Peninsula game below:

Meadowdale 3, Peninsula 1
By Quint Turner

Meadowdale’s Elliott Reece gave up just one unearned run, five hits, and notched four strikeouts in a 3-1 victory over Peninsula Saturday.

Scott Russell got the start for the Seahawks and went 4.2 innings; he gave up seven hits and all three Maverick runs while striking out three. The Mavs got their three runs in the top of the fourth when Parker Coffey and Ryan White hit back-to-back doubles to make it 2-1, and then Collin Costello hit a two-out double to make it 3-1.

Kenley Ackerman hit a double down the left field line with one out in the top of the first, and then Garrett Walsh walked with two outs. Coffey had runners on first and second with two outs and Russell threw a fastball right past him to get out of the inning. In the bottom of the first, Kory Vanderstaay knocked a single to right field with two outs, but Russell flew out to right field afterwards to end the inning.

After White grounded out to start the second, Russell struck out both Phillip Thomas and Costello to put the Mavs down 1-2-3 in the inning. Peninsula took the lead in the bottom of the second. Kailer Smith hit a ground ball to Thomas at third, and Thomas’s throw to first was in the dirt and Walsh couldn’t scoop it, so Smith reached by error. Jimmy Price flew out next, and then Austin Filkins stepped up. Filkins hit a single and Smith reached third easily. Ben Weymiller came to the plate with runners on the corners and one out. Weymiller hit a sacrifice fly to center field, which scored Smith from third, and the Seahawks took a 1-0 lead. Alex Weymiller grounded out to end the inning.

In the top of the third, Tyler McGuire got a single with one out. After Ackerman flew out and Brian Marty stepped up, McGuire tried to steal second and was thrown out by the catcher Smith for the final out of the inning. Shane Hanon led off the bottom of the third with a single, and advanced to second on a wild pitch. Reece calmed down, and got Vanderstaay to pop out and struck out Russell, but Smith reached base on an error again. This time, a hot grounder to third baseman Thomas was misplayed, and there were runners on first and second with two outs. Price came up next and flew out to end the inning.

The Mavs blew it open in the fourth. Marty reached base on an infield single, and then Coffey drove him home on a one out double over the leftfielder. White was next in line, and he smacked a double over the rightfielder’s head to drive in Coffey, and the Mavs took a 2-1 lead. Thomas grounded out for the second out of the inning, but then Costello hit a double to score White, and the Mavs had a 3-1 lead. Finally, Chris Tanner flew out to end the inning. The Seahawks went down in order in the bottom of the fourth, and the Mavericks took a 3-1 lead into the fifth.

Marty came up again with two outs in the top of the fifth and hit a double into the right-centerfield gap, and Russell was relieved as pitcher. In came Jimmy Richie, and he got cleanup hitter Walsh to ground out to end the inning. Alex Weymiller got an infield single to lead off the fifth and then stole second during Hanon’s at-bat. Hanon popped out to second for the first out of the inning. Marty couldn’t block a pitch in the dirt, and Weymiller made it to third. Reece came back and got Vanderstaay to popout for the second out, and then struck out cleanup hitter Russell (who played first base the rest of the game) for the last out of the inning. Weymiller came in as the reliever, and pitched the rest of the game.

Coffey notched a single to lead off the sixth and was advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by White. Weymiller then got Thomas to groundout and Costello to pop out to end the top of the sixth. Reece shut down the Seahawks 1-2-3 in the bottom half of the inning, with the last out a strikeout. The Mavs kept the 3-1 lead into the seventh.

The Mavs also went down in order in the top of the seventh. A. Weymiller struck out Tanner, then McGuire grounded out, and finally Ackerman grounded out to end the inning. The Seahawks got the tying run aboard when leadoff hitter Ben Weymiller hit a double over the leftfielder’s head. Josh Youngchild came up next and hit a fly out to deep left field. B. Weymiller was waved to third and made it easily. However, Reece checked if B. Weymiller had tagged up before going to third, and the second base umpire said that he did not, and called him out. So A. Weymiller came up with two outs and nobody on base instead of one out and a runner on third. Reece got A. Weymiller to line out to Ackerman to end the game.

Sports correspondent Quint Turner is a junior at Meadowdale High School.