
Via Nogales International
The Nogales High School baseball team topped Walden Grove 5-4 on Friday night to win the Lancer Baseball Classic, a midseason round-robin playoff hosted by Salpointe Catholic High School in Tucson that featured 27 participating schools.
The NHS Apaches went 6-0 during the five-day tournament, outscoring their opponents by a cumulative mark of 32-11. In addition to the title-clinching win over Walden Grove, victories came against Sabino (3-1), Mingus Union (10-0), Castle View (5-2), Sahuarita (3-2) and Catalina Foothills (6-2).
Nogales, which had won its first three contests of the season prior to the Lancer Baseball Classic, returns to regular-season action on Tuesday, March 22, when they host Desert View at War Memorial Stadium starting at 6 p.m.