BCR Roundup for Wednesday, May 17: Red Devils roll into finals

Payton Dye and the Hall baseball team cruised to a 12-2 win in six innings over Rockridge in Class 2A regional semifinal play Wednesday night at Orion.

Dye scattered six hits and struck out seven for the win.

Max Bryant had a double and triple with two RBIs.

The Red Devils will face No. 7 seed Riverdale (8-14) in Saturday’s championship game at 11 a.m. The Rams upset top seed and host Orion, 5-1, in Wednesday’s first semifinal.

Sherrard 13, Kewanee 3: The top-seeded Tigers punched their ticket to the championship game of the Class 2A Princeton Regional by defeating the Boilermakers at Prather Field.

Sherrard (22-6) will await the winner of Thursday’s rivalry semifinal between (4) Princeton (17-6) and (5) Bureau Valley (13-12) in Saturday’s finals at 1 p.m.

BOYS TRACK

At El Paso: St. Bede’s Tom Makransky (pole vault) and Greyson Marincic (300 hurdles) qualified for the Class 1A State Meet next weekend with second-place finishes at the El Paso-Gridley Sectional on Wednesday.

Marincic placed second in the 300 hurdles with a time of 43.08 and Makransky was second with a vault of 11-7 3/4, a personal best.

Hall had fifth-place finishes in the 4x100 (45.97) with Jeremy Smith, Joseph Bacidore, Caleb Bickett and Ryan Bosi and Logan, Gabe Wamhoff, Anthony Fiocchi and Leo Lopez in the 4x200 (1:42.77) relays.

The Bruins placed eighth (16) as a team. Eureka (165) was the team champion.

Putnam County’s Alex Rodriguez placed third in the discus (114-6 1/2) and sixth in the shot put (37-9 1/2). The Panthers placed fifth in the 4x800 relay (9:26.76) with Cayden Bouxsein, Braden Bickerman, Broedy Sandberg and Wyatt Grimshaw.