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PUEBLO – Despite a change of venue and playing five hours later than originally scheduled, Severance and Golden both came to play in the Class 4A state baseball championship game at Rawlings Field on the campus of CSU-Pueblo.
In the end, the No. 6-seeded Silver Knights of Severance defeated the No. 4 Goldens 1-0 to earn the school’s first-ever state title. The lone run scored in the top of the second inning when Severance senior Joe Tamburo scored on a wild pitch.
“It’s huge. It will not sink in for a while. That’s a great group of kids,” Saturday coach Kevin Johnson said as he watched the celebration on the field. “I’m proud of these kids and the work they’ve done over the last three and a half years as a program.”
Severance High School opened its doors in August 2019. The Silver Knights (23-6 record) face Golden High School, which is the oldest continuously running high school in Colorado, having opened in 1873…150 years ago.
“We started this school four years ago,” Severance senior Mason Bright said. “I’m in the world now.”
Bright was on top of the game, throwing a complete game shutout. The Severance ace gave up just three singles — a pair by Golden senior Noah Weeks and one by sophomore Jayden Stroup — in six innings.
Bright threw just 79 pitches heading into the bottom of the seventh inning, but a triple by Golden junior Brayden McCarroll gave the Devils (25-6) a chance to send the game into extra innings.
“He (Bruh) is a very knee-jerk kid with an ERA under 2.00,” Johnson said of the senior, who is close to throwing 80 innings for the Silver Knights this season. He made good lines to get the strike out and then the fly.
Golden junior Noah Welte pinch hit and got no outs. Senior Dayne Hart hit a fly ball to left field. Severance left fielder Bryson Farris caught and fired to third baseman Noah Hertzke. Silver Knight’s Angie Dominguez caught the relay throw from Hertzke and tagged Golden sophomore Andrew Romero, who ran for McCarroll.
The umpire called Romero out for the last time at the plate on a close play.
“I actually threw it and thought we’re going somewhere else,” Farris said of starting the defensive gem. “I was celebrating on the field thinking we’d come second and I saw the dog and I ran. It is true.”
Bright picked up his 12th win of the season, relying on a stellar defense behind him as the Silver Knights ended the season with their 12th straight win.
“Bryson had an amazing throw that won us that game,” he said. “Thank you very much for that.”
Golden had five baserunners in the game, but couldn’t push a run across the field.
“It was a bang-bang game at the plate. That’s how it works sometimes,” Golden coach Jackie McBroom said of the final game.
Golden had a rough road to the championship game. In the year After a strong 9-0 shutout victory over Summit in the opening round of the double-elimination state tournament on May 26, the No. 4-seeded Demons lost 8-5 to top-seeded Saint Family the same day. The uphill battle began.
The Goldens advanced to the Final Four this weekend at UCCS Mountain Lion Stadium with an 8-1 win over Riverdale Ridge on May 27.
Seniors Leif Palmer and Weeks — who earned wins over Summit and Riverdale Ridge — both had impressive highlight-reel performances Friday, June 2, at Euchelz Park in Colorado Springs.
Palmer had 13 strikeouts in a 3-2 win over Lutheran. Not only did Wicks hit the 110-pitch count to make it the final game against the Lions, but Wicks also threw a 3-hitter in Golden’s 4-1 win against Holy Family on Friday afternoon.
The wins on Friday moved the Goldens into Saturday’s state championship game against Severance. The Silver Knights had the luxury of advancing directly to the title game after a 3-0 start that included wins over Cheyenne Mountain, Pueblo County and Holy Family.
McCarroll was not in the mix after combining for 200 innings on the mound Friday, along with Palmer and Weeks at Severance on the same Saturday.
“Braeden gave us a chance to win,” McBroom said.[Palmer and Weeks]did as well as they did. Give them pot (brilliant) credit, but we need to do better and run.
The 4A state championship game was scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday at Euchelz Park in Colorado Springs. The 9 a.m. decision was made because the field in Colorado Springs was unplayable due to wet conditions, so the game was moved to 3 p.m. in Pueblo after the 2A state championship game.
“Obviously we had to conserve energy,” Bright said. “We had to be listening to music on the bus and staying in the zone. Then we saw the 2A state game ahead of us. We knew right away we had to go.”
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