Highlands earns unanimous top seed in district tournament

PHOTO: Allen Ramsey, DWCPhoto.com. Highlands Head Coach Jeremy Baioni watches in a recent game.

The Highlands Bluebirds baseball team earned another outright top seed in the 36th District Tournament.

But at Highland Park on Thursday, the Bellevue Tigers made the Bluebirds (15-15 overall, 4-0 district) earn it with a 1-0 victory in eight innings. Brady Gosney batted in Trey Bowden in the bottom of the eighth to win the game off Bellevue pitcher Brady Hayes.

The Bluebirds managed four hits off Bellevue ace Briley Seiter. Drew Rom and Brady Gosney had two each with Gosney doubling. Seiter pitched into the eighth inning striking out five and allowing just four walks.

Ricky Raisor (5-3) took over on the mound in the seventh to earn the win. He struck out three after starting pitcher Ethan Doty struck out 16.

Highlands takes on Covington Catholic in the Conner Classic on Friday. Game time is 5 p.m. at Park Hills.

Box Score:

BELLEVUE (0) AT HIGHLANDS HIGH SCHOOL (1)

BELLEVUE             AB  R  H BI  HIGHLANDS HIGH SCHOO AB  R  H BI
Nick Ackerson         4  0  1  0  Kyle Rust             4  0  0  0  
Briley Seiter         2  0  0  0  Sam Hennigan          3  0  0  0  
Brady Hayes           3  0  0  0  Conner Kreeger        4  0  1  0  
Nick Baker            2  0  0  0  Mark Walkenhorst      3  0  0  0  
Tucker Thomas         3  0  0  0  Austin Mayhew         3  0  0  0  
Brett Seiter          2  0  0  0  Trey Bowden           3  1  1  0  
Gavin Messman         3  0  0  0  Drew Rom              2  0  2  0  
Eric Atkins           3  0  0  0  Brady Gosney          3  0  2  1  
N Ball                3  0  0  0  Brad Greene           2  0  0  0  
                                   Cooper Schwalbach    0  0  0  0  
                                   Cramer               1  0  0  0  
TOTALS               25  0  1  0  TOTALS               28  1  6  1

BELLEVUE                      000 000 00 -- 0  
HIGHLANDS HIGH SCHOOL         000 000 01 -- 1  

LOB--BELLEVUE 4, HIGHLANDS HIGH SCHOOL 12. ERR--N Ball, Nick
Ackerson. 2B--Brady Gosney. HBP--Mark Walkenhorst.
SACB--Drew Rom, Sam Hennigan. SB--Nick Ackerson (2), Brady
Gosney.

 BELLEVUE                        IP    H    R   ER   BB   SO   HR
Briley Seiter                  7.33    4    1    1    4    5    0
Brady Hayes (L)                0.00    2    0    0    0    0    0
 HIGHLANDS HIGH SCHOOL      
Ethan Doty                     6.67    1    0    0    3   16    0
Ricky Raisor (W)               1.33    0    0    0    0    3    0

WP--Briley Seiter (2). SO--Brady Hayes (3), Nick Baker (2),
Eric Atkins (3), Brett Seiter (2), Gavin Messman (2), Tucker
Thomas (3), N Ball (3), Briley Seiter, Kyle Rust, Trey
Bowden, Austin Mayhew, Brad Greene, Cramer. BB--Nick Baker,
Brett Seiter, Briley Seiter, Drew Rom, Trey Bowden, Austin
Mayhew, Brady Gosney.