Game Details - Baseball

The No. 11 Richfield Wildcats have done it again. The Wildcats had to win two in a row in its super regional with Providence Hall after losing their first game 4-3. Richfield went on to win the next two games, but its prize was facing defending 3A champion No. 3 Union in the first round of bracket play. However, Richfield did not look like an 11 seed on Monday as it beat the Cougars 7-3 for yet another upset win. “11-seed knocking off the 6-seed in the Super Regionals, having to come back after a loss in that first Thursday game and winning two on Friday at their place,” said Richfield head coach Drew Hill. “It was huge just to get here. Once we did that, I kept telling them, ‘You get to the state tournament and all bets are off. It's a brand-new season. Write your own story’ and we were ready.” Richfield jumped out to a 4-1 lead after it loaded the bases in the first inning and got a run on a walk. The Wildcats then loaded the bases again in the second inning and Malik Fautin and Garrett Wayman each hit a runner home while Cord White stole home for the 4-1 lead. Jess Curtis was the most consistent player at the bat for either team on Monday. Curtis had four base hits and three RBIs in the win for the Wildcats. “Jess Curtis is our leader,” said Hill. “Jess has wanted this for so long, he told me after the super-regional, ‘Coach, I've not played at UVU yet my high school career, thank you.’” Union made a short run in the sixth inning with a triple from Gannon Labrum scoring two runs but it wasn’t enough. Richfield advances in bracket play and Hill said they’re fully embracing the underdog mentality. “We’re embracing it and we want to be the underdogs in every game,” Hill said. “We have something to prove. We have something to prove to ourselves, something to prove to our community and something to prove to everybody who supports us.”