After just four batters faced, he forced a flyout to end it and send him and his teammates into hysterics. When play did resume, Wilmington managed a last gasp that forced the Blowfish to respond, scoring three runs in the top of the seventh inning to tie the game at 5-5 and threatening to grab a late lead with the Petitt Cup hanging in the balance.īut Lexington County’s two-run bottom of the eighth got the hosts back in front, and with closer CJ Czerwinski sent out to get one of the most important saves of his life, he delivered. That delayed the game over an hour, only adding to the tension, as both teams regrouped and waited out the storm. It looked as if Lexington County was going to roll away with the Petitt Cup as it got out to a 4-0 lead, and it remained in business when a lightning delay struck prior to the fifth inning with the Blowfish up 5-2. Once again, congratulations to the Lexington County Blowfish on being the 2023 CPL Petitt Cup Champions! Thanks for all of the support all season long, fans! We are already planning for 2024 and can't wait to see you at the stadium come May! Till then, take care and… /M3CKFcdR7W- Coastal Plain League August 13, 2023 Playing against the Wilmington Sharks in the Championship Series, that all-too-familiar first-game hole arrived again when the East Division champs won Game 1 by a 7-5 margin, but the Blowfish were undeterred, taking Game 2 on home soil 7-4 to level the series and set up a winner-take-all Game 3 on Saturday. Lexington County lost its first game in the best-of-three series, before storming back to win two and take the series. The West Division champions were the comeback kids of this year’s playoffs - in both the divisional championship series and the one to decide the 2023 holders of the Petitt Cup. The Blowfish won the Petitt Cup once before, in 2012, when they were then located in Columbia, South Carolina, but since moving to Lexington County in 2014, the team had not won another CPL title, let alone even made it to the Championship Series. Here’s a look at the Coastal Plain League’s recently completed Championship Series, which saw the Lexington County Blowfish win the Petitt Cup (the league’s winner’s trophy) for the second time in club history: The Wait is Over It wasn’t the most dominant of summers, but it was important enough - and in baseball, that’s sometimes all you need. Eleven years after first capturing a Coastal Plain League title, the Lexington County Blowfish - with a new place to call home this time - finally did it again.Īnd what a path the Blowfish took to get there.įrom hiring a head coach in his mid-20s, being outside the playoff places following the first half of the season and facing playoff elimination in four of their six postseason games, the Blowfish played unconventionally the whole summer and found that it ended up working wonders.īut behind it all, Lexington County played winning, elite baseball the entire season, with remarkable talent frequently helping it clear the hurdles it needed to reach the CPL’s pinnacle.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |