High school baseball: Spanish Fork goes back-to-back, battling back to beat Maple Mountain for 5A title

OREM —  Spanish Fork had to take the long route to its second consecutive 5A state baseball championship, and 10th in school history.

But that’ll do for head coach Hadley Thorpe.

The Dons pounded out eight runs on nine hits en route to an 8-4 win over Maple Mountain in the third game of the 5A baseball championship series Saturday at Utah Valley’s UCCU Ballpark.

Jeremiah Hall, the winning pitcher from Game 2 earlier Saturday, mashed a home run to lead Maple Mountain.

Mick Winward, Key Ward and Crew Corry also drove in a run apiece.

But Utah Tech commit Sammy Dart collected five strikeouts and helped himself with two RBI as the Dons limited the Golden Eagles to four runs on six hits.

Trigg Cloward led Spanish Fork at the plate, belting a home run with four RBI as Spanish Fork jumped out to a 6-1 lead after three innings and never looked back.

Cloward added a two doubles in his four at-bats, and the sophomore added a sacrifice fly for good measure.

 

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Game 2: Maple Mountain one-hits Dons to force Game 3

Jeremiah Hall fanned eight during the Golden Eagles’ single-hit shutout, 3-0 over Spanish Fork to force a winner-take-all third game for the 5A title.

Nash Ferguson smacked a double with an RBI, and Mitch Walker and Key Ward also drove in runs for Maple Mountain.