CHESTER – The Hazen Union baseball team’s season came to an abrupt end last week against a superior Green Mountain team last week in the first round of the Division III playoffs.
Mason Parker and Tanner Swisher combined for a no-hitter and the Green Mountain offense showed little mercy last Wednesday as they breezed past the Wildcats at home 22-2. Swisher (1-2, 4 runs) and Parker (2-3, 2 RBI) helped their own cause at the plate, answering Hazen’s run in the top of the first with 9 runs in the inning’s bottom half. Chris Rogers added a pair of hits, including a three-run double as Green Mountain tacked on 11 runs in the fourth to leave little doubt about the outcome. Justin Montgomery and Zeke Guebarra each drove in a run for Hazen with sac-fly’s, plating Owen Skorstad and Grayson McNaughten. Craftsbury Academy’s Evan LaMare will be the only graduating senior leaving head coach Shaun Allen’s young squad. Hazen finishes at 3-14 and many of the miscues that plagued them early in the season (errors, hit batsmen, walks) reared their ugly again on Wednesday. It was the fourth time the Wildcats were no-hit this spring.
Sixth seeded Green Mountain upset #3 Bellows Falls on Sunday to advance to the division III Final Four. They matched up against second seeded Thetford Academy on Tuesday.
