KISMET — Ellinwood's Cohen Gunn pitched six masterful innings and delivered a clutch double to spark the Eagles past Southwestern Heights 6-2 in Wednesday's 3A baseball regional.
Gunn doubled home Brody Brack and Drake Hosman to ignite a game-clinching 4-run seventh inning. Trace Tudor singled in Gunn. Tudor scored on Shea Hoskins' single.
Gunn (6-2, 0.78 ERA) struck out 10 batters and reached his 105-pitch limit in the seventh inning. Gunn has 89 strikeouts in 45 innings.
Hoskins' first-inning single drove home Hosman. The Mustangs ' Sigala doubled and scored on an error. Gunn scored on a sixth-inning Hoskins' groundout.
Ellinwood (13-12) plays at Russell (20-5) in Monday's semifinal game.
Ellinwood 100 001 4 — 6 6 1
SW Heights 000 100 1 — 2 4 2
Cohen Gunn, Hosman (7) and Jacobs. Sigala, Stanfield (7) and Mendoza. W—Gunn, 6-2. L—Sigala. 2B—E—Gunn; SW—Sigala, Juarez.
3A RUSSELL SEMIFINALS (5-19)—Russell (20-5) vs. Elllinwood (13-12), 4:30; Ellis (17-8) vs,. Holcomb (16-9), 2 p.m.; QUARTERFINALS—Russell 12, Minneapolis 0; Ellinwood 6, SW Heights 2; Ellis 10, Nickerson 0; Holcomb 10, Sylvan-Lucas 0