The Conestoga High School Pioneers are now the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Ahthletic Association AAAA Champions. Conestoga capped off a historic season for the school by defeating Division One champion Spring-Ford Rams 6-3 in a ten inning nail biter in State College.
The game is the longest in PIAA tournament history, going ten innings. Regulation games for the high schools in the league are seven innings.
It was the Pioneers' first-ever trip to the championship game and a chance to settle a score after losing to the division rival Spring-Ford Rams in a 22-11 in the Division 1 championship game earlier this month.
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Friday night's rematch at Penn State looked nothing like the slug fest that ended with a 10 run mercy rule win for the Spring-Ford Rams. The state championship game was a display of disciplined, hard-fought, nail-biting baseball. Conestoga held the lead through six-and-a- half of seven regulation innings. Spring-Ford tied it up in the bottom of the seventh, sending the game into extra innings.
After two scoreless extra innings, Conestoga bats came alive in the top of the tenth as the Pioneers got three across to take a 6-3 lead into the bottom of the tenth.
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In the end, Conestoga outhit the hard-hitting Rams as the Pioneers got 6 runs, on 16 hits, stranding 12 on base for the game. The Rams scored 3 runs on 11 hits and left 15 on base. Each team had just one error in the hard-fought game.
Check back with TE.Patch.com Saturday morning for new photos and in-depth game coverage from the stadium in State College.
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