CHEROKEE'S COLIN Perro throws a pitch in the South Jersey Group 4 championship game against Lenape.
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EVESHAM?The Cherokee High School baseball team fell just short in the Diamond Classic. And again in the race for the Olympic Conference American Division title.
But the senior-heavy squad wasn?t going to let opportunity pass them by again.
The Chiefs (23-5) got 5 1/3 innings of shutout ball from Colin Perro and took advantage of four Lenape errors en route to the 3-0 victory last Friday and their third South Jersey Group 4 sectional title in school history.
?I knew coming into the season we had a special group,? said Cherokee coach Marc Petragnani after the win.
After being held without a hit by Lenape starting pitcher Kevin Milley through the first three innings, the Chiefs? bats got to work in the fourth.
Shane Garrett got things started with a one-out single and eventually came around to score what would prove to be the winning run on a throwing error.
Jake Powell?s RBI single plated Jordan Glover to make it a 2-0 game.
Glover took care of the RBI all by himself his next time up, cracking a home run to left center, accounting for the game?s final run.
The Indians had their chances, but failed to convert time and again, stranding eight runners on base, including two in the sixth inning.
Perro was pulled amidst that Lenape rally in favor of closer Sean Kelly, who promptly struck out Niko Celia to end the Indians? threat. Continued...
?I have all the confidence in the world in him,? Perro said of the one they call ?the Iceman.? ?I knew he?d come in and shut them down.?Kelly allowed a two-out single in the seventh to Tyler Mixon before retiring Pat Rodier on a comebacker to end the game and set off the celebration.
For Lenape, it was d?j? vu all over again. For the second straight year, the Indians (16-10) fell in the South Jersey Group 4 title game.
A six-game losing streak early on in the season led Lenape to the No. 12 seed in the tourney, but that didn?t stop them from upsetting No. 5 Millville, No. 4 Pennsauken and No. 9 Williamstown, before finally running out of gas against Cherokee.
?It says a lot about the character of the boys on our team,? said Lenape coach Phil Fiore of the Indians? playoff run. ?We just played one game at a time and we were focusing on giving ourselves the opportunity to play another day.?
It?s the Chiefs first title since 2005 and Perro knows that he and his fellow seniors wanted nothing more than to go out on top.
?I?ve been waiting for this for four years.?
The Chiefs met Manalapan (16-11) on Tuesday in the state Group 4 semifinals at Rutgers University in New Brunswick.
EVESHAM?The Cherokee High School baseball team fell just short in the Diamond Classic. And again in the race for the Olympic Conference American Division title.But the senior-heavy squad wasn?t going to let opportunity pass them by again.
The Chiefs (23-5) got 5 1/3 innings of shutout ball from Colin Perro and took advantage of four Lenape errors en route to the 3-0 victory last Friday and their third South Jersey Group 4 sectional title in school history.
?I knew coming into the season we had a special group,? said Cherokee coach Marc Petragnani after the win.
After being held without a hit by Lenape starting pitcher Kevin Milley through the first three innings, the Chiefs? bats got to work in the fourth.
Shane Garrett got things started with a one-out single and eventually came around to score what would prove to be the winning run on a throwing error.
Jake Powell?s RBI single plated Jordan Glover to make it a 2-0 game.
Glover took care of the RBI all by himself his next time up, cracking a home run to left center, accounting for the game?s final run.
The Indians had their chances, but failed to convert time and again, stranding eight runners on base, including two in the sixth inning.
Perro was pulled amidst that Lenape rally in favor of closer Sean Kelly, who promptly struck out Niko Celia to end the Indians? threat.
?I have all the confidence in the world in him,? Perro said of the one they call ?the Iceman.? ?I knew he?d come in and shut them down.?
Kelly allowed a two-out single in the seventh to Tyler Mixon before retiring Pat Rodier on a comebacker to end the game and set off the celebration.
For Lenape, it was d?j? vu all over again. For the second straight year, the Indians (16-10) fell in the South Jersey Group 4 title game.
A six-game losing streak early on in the season led Lenape to the No. 12 seed in the tourney, but that didn?t stop them from upsetting No. 5 Millville, No. 4 Pennsauken and No. 9 Williamstown, before finally running out of gas against Cherokee.
?It says a lot about the character of the boys on our team,? said Lenape coach Phil Fiore of the Indians? playoff run. ?We just played one game at a time and we were focusing on giving ourselves the opportunity to play another day.?
It?s the Chiefs first title since 2005 and Perro knows that he and his fellow seniors wanted nothing more than to go out on top.
?I?ve been waiting for this for four years.?
The Chiefs met Manalapan (16-11) on Tuesday in the state Group 4 semifinals at Rutgers University in New Brunswick.
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