Hope played their toughest opponent of the season again tonight, but this time it was for the right to go to the championship game on Monday. The game was scoreless early and Hope blew a couple great chances to go up early, incuding in the second inning when they had bases loaded and no outs, but couldn't manage to get any runs. Lincolnville struggled all evening to get anything going with their bats due to great pitching from Ben Welt who pitched his last LL game. Hope scored 1 run in the third and then put together a rally to score 4 more in the 4th. After that it was more great pitching and a couple great defensive plays and Lincolnville was held scoreless for Hopes first shutout of the season. Julian was 0-1 tonight with a strikeout.
Hope will face either Thomaston II or Washington, who played tonight, for the championship. Hopefully we can find out who won that game tomorrow!
