Prep baseball: winning school score, losing school score
Published 8:27 pm Wednesday, April 20, 2011
EVERETT — Archbishop Murphy claimed its third straight Cascade Conference baseball championship with an 8-1 win over Lakewood Wednesday.
The Wildcats remained unbeated in league play at 15-0 with two games to play. Wednesday’s defeat gave second-place Lakewood three league losses.
“We did it with a new crew,” said third-year Murphy coach Stan Taloff, “with a lot of young players. The seniors stepped up as well. I am very impressed with the new guys we added to the varsity program.”
Winning pitcher Dan Marshbank allowed one run on five hits and struck out seven batters in 51/3 innings. Monday’s starter, Levi MaVorhis, also held Lakewood to one run.
“Lakewood’s a good team,” Taloff said, “and we gave up just one run in each game.”
MaVorhis had a solo home run in the first and an RBI double in the third.
“We hit the ball extremely well and kept the pressure on them from beginning,” Taloff said.
At Archbishop Murphy H.S.
Lakewood 100 000 0–1 6 1
Archbishop Murphy 305 000 x–8 8 0
Blount, Burbee (4) and Harnden. Marshbank, Burdyshaw (6) and Galgano. WP–Marshbank. LP–Blount. 2B–Lawson (AM), MaVorhis (AM), Galgano (AM). 3B–Lawson (AM). HR–MaVorhis (AM). Records–Lakewood 8-3 league, 9-3 overall. Archbishop Murphy 15-0, 15-1.
