14 • COMMUNITY ADVOCATE • Friday, June 17, 2022
COMMUNITY SPORTS SHS baseball prolongs season with playoff wins By Dakota Antelman Managing Editor SHREWSBURY - A difficult start didn’t end the Shrewsbury High School (SHS) baseball team’s season on Wednesday of last week. Instead, the squad bounced back, defeating Lincoln-Sudbury at home to move one step further in this year’s state championship tournament. Down again just three days later, the Colonials managed to rally once again, defeating BC High School to advance to the state Final Four. “Survive and advance,” Head Coach Lee Diamantopoulos said after the Lincoln-Sudbury win. “That’s the rule of tournament play, you never look past your next opponent.” Griffith helps boost team in win Hosting their Round of 16 game at SHS, the Colonials
Ben Griffith celebrates after scoring during his team’s game against LincolnSudbury last week.
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initially fell behind in the second inning against LincolnSudbury, with multiple errors in the field. They quickly tied the game, however, before cementing a lead. “I’m just so proud of how the boys competed out there today,” Diamantopoulos said. “We had a couple self-inflicted wounds to start,” he continued. “They overcame
that and I think that’s a sign of a great team to be able to grind out some great at bats and play good defense out there.” Shrewsbury allowed just one more run after the second inning. Its bats, meanwhile, came alive. Ben Griffith led the way, hammering a pair of RBI-triples into the outfield to pad Shrewsbury’s advantage.
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Griffith then took the mound as a relief pitcher in the game’s final frames to navigate Shrewsbury’s final outs against Lincoln-Sudbury after a five-inning start from teammate Rocco Hickson. “Ben’s been our guy all season,” Diamantopoulos said. “There’s no one else we want on the mound there to finish the game. We felt good with him on the mound when we needed to close it out.” All this did mark a rebound for Griffith, who had struggled both at the plate and on the mound in recent appearances. “I’m so happy for him,” Diamantopoulos said after the win. “He’s worked really hard and he’s definitely a gamer. We’ve got total confidence in him.”
tournament, Shrewsbury has had its share of dominant days this spring. As it did in the early moments of both its Lincoln-Sudbury and BC High games, though, the team has also had its share of struggles. Just a week prior to the state tournament, the Colonials lost to 27th-ranked Algonquin in an upset in the CMADA finals. Players and coaches noted that defeat following their Lincoln-Sudbury win while celebrating their program’s ability to make adjustments. “We responded well to losses all year,” Griffith said. “We’ve gone on win-streaks after losses.” “It just gives us fire,” he continued, “so, we perform.”
Shrewsbury bounces back from defeat Ranked fourth out of the 42 teams that qualified for this year’s Division I state baseball
‘We still have more to win’ Shrewsbury turned its attention to the BC High Eagles quickly last week.
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