Brusly Panther baseball team seeks state title redemption

Baseball season has ended for most high schools throughout Louisiana, but one area school is not finished yet.

Brusly will spend this weekend in Sulphur, where the Panthers hope to take care of some unfinished business in the Louisiana High School Athletic Association Division II Non-Select Baseball Tournament.

It will mark the second consecutive year the Panthers have ventured to championship tournament, but this year the Panthers hope to take care of some unfished business.

The No.1-seeded Panthers will battle for the Division II State Championship against No. 3 seed Lutcher in a best-of-three series beginning Thursday at MacMurry Park in Sulphur.

After losing in the last leg of the three-game series to North DeSoto last year, coach Jason Lemoine’s Panthers punched their ticket to this year’s tournament after a 15-0 after they won their first two games of the “Best of 3” series with a 6-2 win in Game 1 and 9-5 in Game 2 against Lakeshore High School.

In Game 2, BHS got busy early with a 7-1 lead in the top of the first. Aubrey St. Angelo scored on a passed ball. Isaiah Daley followed with a base-loaded walk.

Coy Purpera brought in the next run off Brandon Blanchard’s bunt single to first. Tre Daley and Jackson Betts scored on bases-loaded walks, while Blanchard reached home on a catcher’s error.

Brody Bourgoyne brought home the seventh run of the inning off a sacrifice fly to right.

Right-fielder Tassin went 2-for-2 with two RBIs for the Panthes.

In Game 1, St. Angelo powered Brusly with three hits in an 8-2 win over Lakeshore. He smacked a solo homer to left, hit a double in the second and singled in the sixth.

His homer to left set up a 4-0 lead in the first, but Lakeshore cut the Panther lead in half with two runs in the fourth.

Four runs in the bottom of the sixth helped Brusly seal the win.

This article originally appeared on Plaquemine Post South: Brusly Panthers baseball aims for state championship