Luke Jackson Photo by Steve Ellmore April 19 CHS won, 14-4
MAPLEWOOD – The Columbia High School varsity baseball team received the No. 9 seed in the state North Jersey Section 2,Group 4 tournament and will visit No. 8 seed Bridgewater-Raritan in the first round on May 23.
The winner will face the winner between No. 1 seed Watchung Hills and No. 16 seed Plainfield in the quarterfinals on May 26. The semifinals are May 31 and the final is June 3.
Pete Nolet hurled a five-hit shutout with 10 strikeouts and no walks in the 10-0 win at Montclair Kimberley Academy on May 16 in a Super Essex Conference-Liberty Division game.
Quinn Krais went 2-for-4 and Eliot Dix had a three-run single for the Cougars, who avenged a 7-5 loss to MKA in the first round of the Greater Newark Tournament on May 9.
CHS fell to West Orange, 3-2, May 18, in a divisional game. West Orange won it in walk-off fashion on an RBI sacrifice fly in the bottom of the seventh inning.
The Cougars moved to a 13-8 record.
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