BASEBALL — Beacon (15-6) won the first two games of the Section IX, Class A playoffs to advance to the title game on Saturday morning (May 25) against No. 1 Marlboro (13-5) at Cantine Field in Saugerties.
Marlboro won an April 27 game between the teams, 8-7. It received a bye in the first round of the tournament and then avoided an upset by No. 4 Red Hook, 4-3.
Seeded No. 3, the Bulldogs opened the postseason with a 3-0 win on Monday over No. 6 Saugerties behind five innings by Mikey Fontaine and a save from Derrick Heaton, who also had two RBIs.
Beacon followed that with an upset on Wednesday over No. 2 Rondout Valley, 11-5. Mercer Jordan was 4-for-4 and Jackson Atwell was 3-for-3.
SOFTBALL — Seeded fifth in the Section IX, Class A playoffs, Beacon’s season ended in the first round on Monday (May 20) with a 12-6 loss at No. 4 New Paltz. Beacon led 6-4 before New Paltz scored eight runs in the sixth. The Bulldogs finished 6-12, two wins better than last season.
TRACK AND FIELD — Beacon competed at the 24-team OCIAA Championship at Warwick this past weekend.
For the boys, sophomore Noah Spiak “ran the race of his life,” according to Coach Jim Henry, to win the 400-meter hurdles in 56.98, trimming 3 seconds off his personal best. Damani DeLoatch won the triple jump in 47-01; Jayden Mihalchik was fourth in the javelin with a throw of 130 feet; and Rubio Castagna-Torres finished fourth in the pentathlon with 2,259 points after running the 1,500 meters in 4:48. For the girls, Isabella Migliore was 12th in the 800 meters in 2:25.23 and Kira Sheehan was third in the javelin with a throw of 67-01.
Beacon will compete on Saturday (May 25) at the Section IX, Class B championships at Goshen.
BOYS’ GOLF — Will Martin shot a 74 at the Section IX playoffs on Tuesday (May 21) in Kingston and advanced to the second round on Thursday in Poughkeepsie.
BOYS’ TENNIS — Beacon had two representatives in the Section IX tournament this week in Goshen after Frank Zezza and Charlie Klein qualified in doubles. They won their first round match against a team from Lourdes (6-3, 6-1) but were eliminated by a team from Monroe-Woodbury High School (6-2, 6-4).
