BANGOR, Maine — Jay Lauter pitched 4⅔ innings of two-hit, shutout ball on Wednesday to help Bronco-Hermon post a 10-0 victory over Old Town in the District 3 Junior League Baseball all-star championship game at Mansfield Stadium.
Lauter struck out two and walked two and was supported by a 13-hit attack, which produced five runs in the bottom of the fifth to end the game via the 10-run rule.
Mychal Beaulieu singled twice and knocked in a run to pace Bronco-Hermon (4-0), while Gavin Partridge stroked a two-run double. River Mullen rapped a double and a single.
Michael Brown and Dylan Street hit first-inning singles to lead Old Town, which ended the tournament at 3-2.
American Legion
Zone 1 tourney field set
Reigning zone titlist Post 51 of Oakland and the two-time defending state champion Bangor Coffee News Comrades will have opening-round byes when the American Legion Zone 1 baseball tournament begins Thursday at the Winkin Complex on the campus of Husson University.
Post 51, made up of players from the Oakland-Waterville-Fairfield area, finished its regular season as the zone’s top seed with a 16-5 record, one-half game ahead of second-place Bangor Coffee News (15-5).
Post 51 gained that edge by sweeping all three regular-season meetings from Bangor.
R.H. Foster-Hampden (14-6) is the No. 3 seed, while Post 16 of Skowhegan (13-8), Brewer (12-9) and the Acadians (7-14) earned the final spots in the six-team Zone 1 tournament field.
Two play-in games are scheduled for Thursday, with No. 4 Skowhegan facing No. 5 Brewer at 5 p.m. and No. 3 R.H. Foster-Hampden against No. 6 Acadians at 8 p.m.
Thursday’s winners advance to the double-elimination phase of the tournament that begins Friday with No. 2 Bangor facing the higher-seeded play-in game winner at 4 p.m. and No. 1 Post 51 against the lower-seeded play-in survivor at 7 p.m.
The tourney continues with three games Saturday on the new FieldTurf at the Winkin Complex, and the championship round is set for noon Sunday with an if-necessary game to follow.
The top two teams in the Zone 1 tournament advance to the eight-team state championship tourney that begins next Wednesday at the Capitol Area Recreation Association fields in Augusta.
Brewer 12, Bangor 7
At Heddericg Field in Brewer, the Falcons scored 10 runs combined in the third and fourth innings to build a lead they would not relinquish in a Zone 1 contest.
Garrett Hamlin drove in three runs with two singles for Brewer, while Jack Corey posted four singles and an RBI with three runs scored. Corey also worked two-plus innings in relief to notch the win.
Also for the Falcons, Alex Maxsimic poked a double and two singles with an RBI and Matt Pushard added two singles.
Jesse Colford led Coffee News of Bangor with two singles and two RBIs, while Andrew Hillier and Ben Crichton also each singled twice.
Bangor 312 001 0 — 7 9 1
Brewer 116 400 x — 12 15 3
Peirce, Crichton (3), Hillier (5), Cowperthwaite (6) and Fournier; Pushard, Corey (3), Brooks (5), Gauvin (7) and Maxsimic
