LEBANON, Tenn. – That storybook finish McCallie had been authoring hit a shredder Wednesday night, but the authors remained alive with chapters still to be written.
The Blue Tornado rebounded from an 8-2 winners-bracket final loss to Brentwood Academy in the TSSAA Division II-AA state tournament and set up today’s championship rematch with the Eagles thanks to their second tournament victory over Briarcrest Christian, 5-1, in a late-night affair at Wilson Central.
The title game is scheduled to begin at 1:30 EDT this afternoon at Middle Tennessee State’s Reese Smith Jr. Field. McCallie will have to win two against the Eagles in order to earn its first baseball state title since 2014.
The Blue Tornado fell behind early in the loss to BA. To make matters worse for the Blue Tornado, they had to turn around with only a brief respite to collect themselves and play the losers-bracket final.
The Blue Tornado had shelved a season of ups and downs once postseason pitching began, bouncing first Montgomery Bell Academy and then Baylor – both in best-of-three series – to punch their ticket to state. They then beat Briarcrest to reach the winners-bracket final.