BANGOR, Maine — The Brewer High School baseball team looked every bit like one of the favorites in Class A North Tuesday evening.
The Witches got a strong five innings out of Logan Littlefield and took advantage of some Bangor miscues to scratch out a regular season-ending 4-2 victory over the rival Rams at Mansfield Stadium.
Coach Dana Corey’s club, which had the top slot in the region locked up, concludes the regular season 14-2.
Bangor, which had won three straight coming in, heads into the playoffs 8-8 and will likely be the No. 6 seed in the region.
After trailing 2-0 early, the Witches seized control in the bottom of the third with a four-run surge, with three walks and two Rams errors being contributing factors.
Rowan Valley got it started by working a bases-loaded walk, and Littlefield’s run-scoring single to shallow right tied it at 2.
After Valley scored on a perfectly executed double-steal, Littlefield came home on a throwing error.
The Witches threatened again the following inning, loading the bases with nobody out, but Matt Holmes got a strikeout and a groundout to second to keep his Rams in it.
Littlefield scattered just one run on one hit in his five innings of work, striking out four while walking only three and not allowing any Rams past second base after the second inning.
Blake Littlefield worked around a base hit and a walk in the seventh to close it out.
The Rams scratched across single runs in the first two innings in spite of mustering only one hit.
Bangor loaded the bases with nobody out in the first thanks to a pair of walks and a hit batsman, but Brewer starter Grady Vanidestine induced a bases-loaded double play to help the Witches limit the damage.
The Rams stretched their lead the following inning on a Matt Holmes sacrifice fly to center.
Logan Littlefield was the game’s lone repeat hitter with two singles.