PHOTOS BY BRIAN HOFFMAN
The Salem High baseball team is the River Ridge District champion. The Spartans beat Patrick Henry last Friday, 15-4, to finish with the best district record and lay claim to the first place trophy.
Salem finished the regular season with a 10-2 RRD record and a 15-6 record overall. That’s good for third place in the Region 4D sub-region tournament, and the Spartans will open tournament play at Blacksburg next Monday, June 2nd.
The Spartans wrapped up the regular season at Patrick Henry last Friday. It would have been “Senior Night” in Salem but the postponed game was moved to PH because a “Movie Night” was scheduled at Kiwanis Field, the Spartans home diamond. The players decided not to celebrate Senior Night in Roanoke, but all the seniors got a good amount of playing time as Salem cruised to the win.
Senior Keegan Craighead started on the mound and picked up the win. Craighead pitched four innings and allowed four runs while striking out two. Carter Black threw one inning to close out the slaughter rule win.
Seniors Black and Trace Monroe led the offense with three doubles and six runs scored between them. Monroe had two doubles, giving him 24 for his four year Salem career and a new school record for two-baggers. Brayden White and Zach Bocock each drove in two runs.
Jefferson Forest is the top seed in the sub-region and will play the winner of a game between fourth seeded Halifax and fifth seed E.C. Glass in the semifinal on Monday. The winner of that game will meet the Salem-Blacksburg winner in the south sub-region final, and the south winner will then play the north sub-region winner and both will qualify for the state Class 4 tournament.
PHOTOS BY BRIAN HOFFMAN
