April 21, 2015

The Bloomfield Wildcats and Bell City Cubs advanced to the semifinals of the SCAA baseball tournament with wins Monday. Top-seeded Bernie will host the winner of a quarterfinal between fourth-seeded Woodland and fifth-seeded Puxico and second-seeded Bell City will host third-seeded Bloomfield...

The Bloomfield Wildcats and Bell City Cubs advanced to the semifinals of the SCAA baseball tournament with wins Monday.

Top-seeded Bernie will host the winner of a quarterfinal between fourth-seeded Woodland and fifth-seeded Puxico and second-seeded Bell City will host third-seeded Bloomfield.

Both semifinals take place Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. Winners play in the title game Wednesday at 4:30 p.m.

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Bloomfield 3, Advance 0

Bloomfield tallied three runs in the bottom of the third inning on its way to a 3-0 victory against sixth-seeded Advance in its quarterfinal Monday.

Tim Hector earned a complete-game win for Bloomfield. He allowed two hits and struck out 12 in seven innings pitched.

Noah Vandiver and Tim Hector combined to collect four of Bloomfield's seven hits off of Advance starting pitcher Dawson Mayo.

Mayo suffered a complete-game loss.

SCAA Quarterfinal

AHS 000 000 0 - 0 2 1

BHS 003 000 0 - 3 7 2

WP - Tim Hector. LP - Dawson Mayo. Multiple hits - Bloomfield: Noah Vandiver (B) 2-3, Tim Hector 2-3.

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Bell City 20, Richland 0

Bell City recorded all 20 of its runs in the first three innings in a 20-0 four-inning win against seventh-seeded Richland in its quarterfinal Monday.

Cole Nichols threw a perfect game for Bell City. He struck out 10 while pitching all four innings.

The Cubs tallied 15 hits.

SCAA Quarterfinal

RHS 000 0 - 0 0 6

BCS 776 0 - 20 15 0

WP - Cole Nichols. LP - Azure. 2B - Nichols (B), Austin Hicks (B), Peyton Maddox (B), Jesse Smith (B). Multiple hits - Bell City: Nichols 2-4, Hicks 3-4, Nate Finney 3-4, Maddox 2-4, Smith 2-3.

Nichols threw a perfect game, 10 ks in 4 IP

Editor's Note: The Woodland-Puxico score was not available by press deadline Monday night.

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