Nick Cunningham threw a two-hit shutout and delivered a game-winning RBI single with two outs in the bottom of the sixth inning as second-seeded Ashland tipped visiting third-seeded Sudbury, 1-0, on Friday night in the third and deciding game of a Central Mass. Senior Babe Ruth North opening round playoff series.
Ashland (16-6) advances to play defending CMSBR World Series champion and top-seeded Medfield in the first game of the best-of-three North finals. The teams split two games during the regular season.
Sudbury finished the season with a record of 15-7.
Cunningham, who struck out five and walked one, won a pitching duel with Sudbury?s Tommy Novick, who finished with a four-hitter and seven strikeouts.
With the game scoreless, Seamus Reardon led off the Ashland sixth by reaching on an infield error. After moving to third on a Zach Blecher groundout to first, he came home with the winning run on Cunningham?s line drive hit between first and second and into right field.
Sudbury?s Kieran Pathak broke up Cunningham?s no-hit with single in the fourth. Matt Broadbent doubled with two outs top of the seventh but Cunningham needed it with a groundout to the mound.
Christian Reick went 1-for-1 with a single and walk, John Ciampaglia went 1-for-2 and Thomas Schelling had an infield single to lead off the fourth. Schelling reached second on a wild pitch, but Novick fanned the next three batters to get out of the jam.
"It was an exiting game," said Ashland coach Kyle Wilson. "Cunningham came through like he always does."
BELLINGHAM 11, MEDWAY 1: Taylor Sutherland went 2-for-3 with two RBIs and allowed just four hits in four innings on the mound as top-seeded Bellingham (17-4-1) beat visiting second-seeded Medway (11-11) in the first game of a best-of-three CMSBR South finals.
Jeff Dunn went 2-for-3 with two runs scored while Mike Ryan went 1-for-3 with a solo home run for Bellingham, which broke open the game with a seven-run third inning to make the score 9-1.
Kevin Bergeron went 2-for-3 with a double and a run scored for Medway. Jordan Krozy was 1-for-3 with an RBI, driving in Bergeron to give Medway a 1-0 lead in the first inning.
Game 2 is Saturday at 5:30 p.m. at Medway High School.
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ASHLAND WINS BY FORFEIT: Ashland Post 77 (14-6) won its regular-season finale by forfeit against visiting Malden, as the guests didn't arrive until 6:50 for a 6 p.m. game.
"The umpires called it at 6:35. Usually we give teams 20 minutes, but it was getting too late," said Post 77 manager Dan Sullivan. "We had a Senior Babe Ruth playoff game scheduled for the same field at 8, so we couldn't wait."
Post 77 had already been eliminated from the Intrastate playoffs as Ashland was edged out by Billerica, which won the tiebreaker for the fourth and final playoff spot in Zone 5. Ashland will play in Zone 5?s Chairman's Cup beginning on Monday.
BILLERICA 12, NATICK 0 (6 INN.): Jack Turner went 1-for-2 with a double for Natick (6-14), but Post 107 fell to visiting Billerica in its regular season Zone 5 finale.
Post 107 was within one run after three innings, but two errors in the fourth allowed Billerica to score five runs, putting the margin at 6-0.
"We did well early, but that inning opened the floodgates. Only three of our runs were earned," said Post 107 manager Jeff Ward.
Jeff Bortman went 1-for-1 with a single.
Natick will play in the Zone 5 Chairman's Cup starting on Monday.
"Depending on how Lexington finishes in their last three games, we could get a home game in the first round," said Ward.
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