Six from MHD Play For NE Baseball Championship

The following information was provided by David Rowe:

The Vikings Baseball team, a select AAU program based at Salem State University and featuring six Marblehead players, reached the championship game of the New England AAU 14-year-old open division tournament, played in Cranston, RI on July 15. 

To enter the playoff round, the Vikings compiled a 12-2 divisional record during regular season play between April – June, and began the tournament as the 9th seed.  In pool play July 7 & 8 they won all three games, thus punching their ticket to the “Final Four”.

On July 15 the Vikings won a drama-filled semifinal game against the South Shore Rox, continuing a season long pattern of come-from-behind victories by scoring three runs in the bottom of the seventh to force extra innings.  They then won, 9-8, in the bottom of the eighth, earning the right to play for the championship, where they fell to the Triple Play All Stars from Bolton, MA.

In reaching the final game, the Vikings, as a first-year program, finished the season #2 out of the 53 AAU 14U open division teams from throughout New England.

The program director for Vikings Baseball is former Salem State University player Marc Crovo.