Dunedin wins with a fly out to right. It’s Dunedin’s first baseball state title since 1964!! Final score Dunedin 3, South Fork 2 in 10 innings.
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Dunedin is three outs away from a state title. Rogers is still in on the mound. Zaharion is up to bat for South Fork.
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Dane Comfort comes in to pitch for South Fork. He is not on the regular rotation, he’s a righty! Comfort has pitched 15 innings and has 15 Ks with a .047 ERA and 1-0 record.

Fly out to first in foul territory for the third out. Bottom of the 10th.
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Kreuter goes to second on a 6-3. Two outs.
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One out single to center by Kreuter sends Priest home to give Dunedin the 3-2 lead.

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Wild pitch sends Priest to third. Still one out.

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Priest to 2B on a sac bunt from Kumbat. One out, Kreuter up for Dunedin.
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New pitcher for South Fork. Clayton Schulz comes in. South Fork only has lefties on its pitching staff.
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A sac bunt for Spencer Dickinson puts Ryan Breen in scoring position at 2nd. Will Claunch advanced to first and Dan Harper is up. One out, runner on second and first.

A 6-3 double play sends this game to 10 innings.
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Fisher goes down swinging for the third out of the top of the ninth.

South Fork gets another chance to send us all home…
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Dunedin has two outs and Schneider is on on a base on balls. Fisher is up to bat.

This is the first extra inning state final since 2004.
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To this point, one out in the top of the 9th, 23 batters have been stranded by both teams combined. Does anyone want to win this game???
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Ninth inning here we come! South Fork went three up, three down in the bottom of the eighth on a 4-3, fly out to first in foul territory and a strikeout.

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South Fork gets out of the top of the eighth with two strikeouts from Hunter and a fly out to center.

South Fork comes up to bat in the bottom of the eighth. Robert Bednar is up.

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Cam Fisher gets out No. 3 on a catch in right field.

Going to extra innings…
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Bases still loaded. Rogers strikes out Zaharion for out number two.

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Dunedin has the first out on a 1-2 to get the lead runner.

Another pitching change for Dunedin. Jake Rogers comes in for Norris.
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South Fork has runners on first and third with no outs…

South Fork has never won a state championship in any sport.

Dunedin is making a pitching change. Alex Norris comes in for Clay Kollenbaum.
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Dunedin’s Cam Fisher tripled to left on a first pitch in the seventh inning with two outs and Max Priest got on base with a walk, but the Falcons couldn’t bring either home as Nick Zaharion made a running catch in right field to record the final out.

Dunedin has left 13 on base this game.

South Fork is up at the top of the order. Ryan Breen has a lead-off single in the bottom of the seventh.

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Dunedin just turned a 6-4-3 double play to close out the sixth inning. The game is still tied 2-2. Kollenbaum is still pitching for Dunedin.

To the top of the seventh we go…
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Headed to the top of the sixth inning, the game is tied at two after South Fork adds one run in the bottom of the fifth.

However, South Fork left the bases loaded at the end of the fifth and has now stranded six runners in this game.

Dunedin has stranded nine.
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We have a new pitcher for South Fork, Kyle Hunter, who boasts an 8-0 record with a 1.17 ERA.

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After three innings, Dunedin leads 2-1 after a South Fork run came on an RBI single.

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Going into the bottom of the third, Dunedin leads 2-0. Casey Turgeon scored on a fielder’s choice from Jamison Sweat and Sweat came home on a wild pitch from Harper.

Harper has walked five so far.

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After two complete innings there is no score. There’s also only been one hit and that was from Dunedin’s Max Kreuter, who was the first batter of the game.

Kollenbaum has five strikeouts through the two innings, two looking and three swinging.  South Fork’s Dan Harper has two strikeouts, both swinging.

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Here are the lineups for today’s Class 5A state final between Dunedin and South Fork:

Dunedin (visitor)

Max Kreuter 8
Casey Turgeon 4
Jake Rogers 6
Jamison Sweat 5
Clay Kollenbaum P
Ryan Schneider 2
Cam Fisher 7
Max Priest 9
Mike Kumbat (for Alex Norris) DH
Alex Norris (not hitting) 3

South Fork (home)
Ryan Breen 2
Spencer Dickinson 6
Will Claunch DH (for Kyle Hunter)
Kyle Hunter 8 (not batting)
Dan Harper P
Nick Zaharion 9
Blake Cilwick 4
Robert Bednar 5
Mike Beck 7
Tyson Young 3