When McCutcheon, Lafayette and Harrison all three left the Hoosier Crossroads Conference after the spring sports season in 2014, it was almost a given that the Mavericks would be kept on the schedule for head coach Justin Keever and the Millers.
Just as McCutcheon made the Friday night trip to The Dunk this season, the Millers will take the trip to Lafayette in 2016 to keep this ongoing rivalry alive.
As expected, it would be another classic in the series that could have gone either way. Jake Burton, made his typical 3 or 4 walks out onto the field to complain about calls on the base paths and tried changing the mind of the base umpire, but that obviously never happens and didn't on Friday night.
4A #8 McCutcheon 6, Noblesville 5 - (Fri. 5/1 at The Dunk, Noblesville)
Mavericks 0 0 0 0 2 4 0 - 6 9 2
Millers 2 0 1 2 0 0 0 - 5 5 1
Senior pitcher Justin Buchanan looked like the J.B. that we saw against Knoxville West at Grace Christian in the second game of the spring baseball trip about a month ago. He forced two fly outs and a ground out to make quick work of the Mavericks in the top of the 1st.
Travis Gillian singled to left center on the first pitch he saw and made his way to second on an error by the first baseman Jackson Smeltz. Connor Christman walked for a pair of runners aboard quickly.
Michael Carmosino seems to really be seeing the ball much better in the past week or so. Carmo took a 2-1 pitch to deep center on a hop to the fence for a stand-up double, scoring both Gillian and Christman for an early 2-0 Noblesville lead.
The Millers tacked on another in the home half of the 3rd when Ty Lindstrand walked with the bases load to score Gillian for 3-0.
The cushion got a little bigger in the bottom of the 4th.
After Harris Camp and Alec Parker were out via a fly out to center and a strikeout looking, respectively, they started a two-out rally. Gillian singled for his second hit of the night. Christman singled to get Travis to 3rd for runners at the corners. The next pitch, Carmo hit a two-run single off of reliever Mason Bruce up the middle into center and it was now a 5-0 score in favor of the Millers.
Clayton Marowski came on in relief of Buchanan in the top of the 4th, after J.B. had walked the Smeltz and Walter Talcott to start the inning.
Marowski took down the Mavericks next three hitters to get Noblesville out of the slight jam.
Bruce got himself into a little bit of a groove on the mound for the remainder of the game. After sending down the Millers 1-2-3 in the top of the 5th, McCutcheon found a way to get their offense going.
Braden Giroux smacked a double deep to the fence in left center with one out. Two batters later, Sean Roginski took a fly ball over the left field fence for a two-run home run, scoring both he and Giroux to cut Noblesville's lead to 5-2 through five.
The visiting Mavericks had figured out Marowski in the 6th. They scored four runs in the inning to take a 6-5 lead, which would wind up as the final score. Two runs were scored with Marowski in the game and the other two with left-handed reliever Connor Adams on the mound, but all four were the responsibility of Marowski.
Mason Bruce did what he was put in the game to do. He kept the Noblesville bats just about silent in the final three innings as he and the Mavericks made their comeback offensively.
The win upped McCutcheon's overall record to 10-3 and dropped Noblesville to 8-8.
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