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Dellacona Breezes By Framingham in South Quarterfinals
Blessed with a pitcher's frame and poise and the even greater natural gift of a rifle arm, Barnstable's Keegan Dellacona turned in a brilliant complete-game performance versus Framingham High as BHS advanced to the MIAA South Semifinals.
One run was all he needed to cruise through a Framingham High (11-8) team that just upset Boston College High, 3-2.
Barnstable's Keegan Dellacona (4-0), a senior righty still looking for a junior college to commit to in the fall, turned in his fourth victory of the season this afternoon versus Framingham High School, a complete-game, nine-inning, four-hit shutout. The Red & White is now 2-0 in the postseason following their 5-0 blanking of the visitors today.
Dellacona, frankly, showed precisely why he was named the Old Colony League Pitcher of the Year last week.
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He struck out 14 batters, walked just one and tossed 130 pitches as the Red Raiders advanced to the MIAA Division 1 South Sectional Championship on Friday (June 8) versus the winner of tomorrow's Taunton-Franklin match-up. Yesterday was Dellacona's fourth complete-game victory of the season and third complete nine inning game. He has allowed four runs in those victories and a grand total of nine hits in 34 of those innings.
That's not even mentioning his brilliant relief efforts this season as well as his 8 1/3 innings of shutout pitching he threw against Bridgewater-Raynham earlier in the season.
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Thanks to his battery-mate Denny Beynor, Dellacona got all the run support he would need in the bottom of the second inning.
Barnstable third baseman Mark Brodd (2-4, RBI), led off the inning with a frozen rope up the middle, stole second then was sacrificed to third base by Everett Walsh. Sam Holway then took a free pass and stole second base and Beynor erupted with a two-out single that drove both Brodd and Holway home. The score after two frames was Barnstable 2, Framingham 0.
The Red Raiders picked up two more runs in the bottom of the third inning when Ty Adams was hit with a pitch to lead it off, stole second then advanced to third on a wild pitch. Dylan Morris walked, stole second and advanced to third on a catcher's wild throw into centerfield. Both men would score on a sacrifice by Danny Walsh and another single by Brodd.
Adams scored again in he fifth inning after rapping out a basehit then eventually coming home on another Danny Walsh sacrifice.
Defensively, the entire Barnstable squad played solidly with no errors once again in both the infield and outfield.
