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After the rain finally let up to let the games begin the Falcons edged out the Jaguars 4-3 in the Regional Quarter-Final to move on to the Regional Semi-Final against the Douglas Eagles.
The game was suspended on Thursday afternoon with the Falcons leading 3-0, and coming to bat in the bottom of the 2nd inning. The scoring started with 2 outs when Andres Visbal got HBP and stole 2nd base. Ryan Dodge came up with a 2 out single to score Visbal and put the Falcons up 1-0. Daniel Oliveri followed that up with a single and the Falcons had runners on 1st and 2nd with 2 outs and Kharlin Sued coming to bat. With a 2-2 count Sued drilled a double into the right centerfield gap to score both Dodge and Oliveri to put the Falcons up 3-0. Gentry Fortuno had started the game on the hill for the Falcons and threw 2 innings only seeing 7 hitters.
The rains came and the game was suspended til Friday.
When the game resumed the Falcons quickly got on the board when Miguel Presno, who was 2-2 on the day, got a 1 out single and stole 2nd base. Presno moved to 3rd on a groundout by Oscar Rodriguez. Eric Rivera came up to bat and drove Presno in with a 2 out base hit to make the score 4-0. It looked as if the Falcons would start to run away with the game but the Jaguars held tough and didn't give up another run the rest of the way. The Falcons came back with Alex Sarmiento on the mound on Friday. Sarmiento got through the 3rd inning without any trouble but found it in the 4th when the Jaguars mounted a comeback. The Jaguars fought back and were able to score 3 runs in the 4th inning off of Sarmiento to make it a 4-3 game.
The game was in limbo when in the 6th inning, the Falcons made a costly throwing error and put the tying run at second base with no outs. The runner than advanced on a wild pitch. With the tying run on 3rd and no outs the Falcons turned to Gentry Fortuno to try and squash the situation and that he did in dramatic fashion. Fortuno struck out the side to keep the score at 4-3. In the top of the 7th the Jaguars went down 1-2-3 to end the game, 4-3. Sarmiento threw 3 innings and got the win while Fortuno threw the first 2 innings and the last 2 innings of the game to get the save.
The Falcons (19-5) will play the Douglas Eagles at home in a Regional Semi-Final on Tuesday at 7pm.
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