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Now we’re to the last of the local state tournaments; the Virginia State finals, which took place this past weekend at various locations around the state.\u00a0 The finalists in all Virginia regionals qualified for the “final four” in each classification. \u00a0Here’s what we’re looking at by Virginia classification (all VHSL conference and regional playoff brackets here<\/a>, and the State playoffs ( final four brackets<\/a> are here).<\/p>\n Before getting to the tournament results, it is of note that the Washington Post released its All-Met teams<\/a> for the year, and most of the first and second team players have been mentioned in this blog here and there for their leadership on championship teams across the local region.\u00a0 All Met player of the year should be no surprise: Jacob Bukauskus<\/strong>, who was also one of three local players<\/a> named to the Louisville Slugger All-American <\/a>teams.\u00a0 Bukauskas, Cody Morris<\/strong> of the Maryland 3-A champion Reservoir and WCAC\/DCSAA champion St. John’s A.J. Lee<\/strong> were named to the first and\/or second all-american teams.\u00a0 Other local accolades announced: the 5-A North All-Region team<\/a>.<\/p>\n Virginia State Tournament Finals<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n In each state semi-final each regional winner plays the runner-up from the other regional.\u00a0 These games are set for Friday June 13th with the state championships the following day (except when rain pushed games to sunday 6\/15).\u00a0 The 6-A and 5-A tournaments are being played in Northern Virginia (at Lake Braddock and Robinson).\u00a0 4-A and 3-A is being played at Liberty University.\u00a0\u00a0 And 2-A\/1-A is being played in Salem and at Radford University.<\/p>\n 6-A State Finals<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n 6-A State Bracket<\/a>.\u00a0 My prediction was a 6-A South regional final rematch between Virginia’s two nationally recognized powers with Cosby getting revenge for their 6-A south regional loss.<\/p>\n 6-A State Finals Results<\/span>:\u00a0 In the first 6-A semi, McLean pushed nationally ranked Western Branch but ended up losing 5-4<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 In the second 6-A semi, Chantilly pulled off a stunner and beat Cosby 3-2<\/a>, beating 32nd round pick and UNC commit Hunter Williams<\/strong> behind a complete game from Eason Recto<\/strong> (committed to Cornell).\u00a0 In the 6\/15 final<\/a>, Chantilly once again punched above their weight and scared a tougher team, but in the end lost 6-4<\/a> to Western Branch.<\/span><\/p>\n 6-A State champ<\/strong><\/span>: Western Branch (Chesapeake) with a 26-2 record on the season.<\/p>\n 5-A State Finals<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n 5-A State Bracket<\/a>. My 5-A prediction was seeing Freeman riding roughshod over the Bukauskas-less Stone Bridge team in the final.<\/p>\n 5-A State Finals Results: In one semi, Freeman pounded the over-matched Freedom team 7-0<\/a> while Hickory blitzed Stone Bridge 9-1<\/a> behind junior Connor Eason<\/strong>‘s gem (early UVA commit), setting up an all 5-A south final. \u00a0In the 6\/15\/14 5-A final, Hickory got revenge against Freeman and took their first state title by outlasting Freeman 6-4 in 10 innings<\/a>. \u00a0Hickory, fyi, is the alma mater of Mets 3rd baseman\u00a0David Wright<\/strong> and veteran utilityman\u00a0Scott Sizemore<\/strong>. 5-A State champ<\/strong><\/span>: Hickory (Chesapeake) with an 19-7 record.<\/p>\n 4-A State Finals<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n 4-A State Bracket<\/a>: My 4-A Prediction: Hanover blitzes their way to a repeat state title over Winchester’s Millbrook squad and leaves people wondering if they could have won the larger classifications as well.\u00a0 4-A Results: Sure enough, the two regional champions both advanced easily to the 4-A final, with Millbrook defeating Grafton 10-3<\/a> and Hanover defeating Sherando 6-2<\/a>.\u00a0 In the 6\/14 final, Hanover’s Derek Casey<\/strong> made quick work of Millbrook, capping off an undefeated prep career (27-0) with Hanover winning its second consecutive state title 7-1<\/a>.<\/p>\n 4-A State champ<\/strong><\/span>: Hanover (Mechanicsville\/Richmond), 21-2 on the season<\/p>\n Virginia Smaller Classifications<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n 2014 Virginia State HS champs<\/strong><\/span>:<\/p>\n A good year for Chesapeake Schools, who took both the biggest classification titles. \u00a0Hanover out of Richmond “defends” its state title, though in the 4-A classification, leading many to wonder if they could have competed in the higher classifications. \u00a0The best performance by a local team remains Purceville’s Loudoun Valley, winning the state 3-A title. \u00a0With apologies of course to Chantilly, who surprised this observer by knocking off Cosby prior to pushing Western Branch despite hits un-lofty record. \u00a0I think its safe to say we’re all bummed that Bukauskas couldn’t finish out the year; I would have liked to have seen him against the two down-state 5-A powerhouses.<\/p>\n Recent Virginia AAA HS champs<\/strong><\/span>:<\/p>\n 2013: Hanover d Great Bridge. Hanover’s super-junior Derek Casey<\/strong> (committed to UVA) outlasts Great Bridge and their 1st round talent Connor Jones<\/strong> (now attending UVA after spurning a likely late 1st round draft position).\u00a0 DC Local teams Lake Braddock and Oakton beaten in the semis.<\/p>\n 2012: Lake Braddock d Kellam 4-0. Lake Braddock lost to West Springfield in the regional title game but then ran to\u00a0a state championship.<\/p>\n 2011: Great Bridge d South County in the state final, giving the powerful South County its first and only loss on the season after starting the season 28-0. \u00a0Lake Braddock was the regional finalist and lost to Great Bridge in the state quarters.<\/p>\n 2010: West Springfield d Woodbridge in the final, giving Woodbridge its only loss on the year. WT Woodson regional finalist.<\/p>\n Complete history of Virginia HS Champions<\/a>: from VHSL’s website. \u00a0Covers all sports.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Maryland<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n See the\u00a0previous posts<\/a>\u00a0for a full run-down on the Maryland regional and state tournaments, which ended 5\/24\/14. \u00a0Here’s your 2014 state champs in Maryland:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n DC<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n See the\u00a0previous post<\/a>\u00a0for a more complete run-down on the DCSAA tournament. \u00a0One last game remained for the DC public schools:<\/p>\n Private<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n All private leagues in the DC, VA and MD areas are complete at this point. \u00a0See previous posts in this series for more detail.<\/p>\n National High School Baseball Ranking Lists<\/strong>:<\/p>\n Resources<\/strong>:<\/p>\n Prep tournament Baseball updates so far in 2014: Maryland Regionals and Virginia regular season play wrapping up Maryland State Finals and Virginia conference play Virginia Regionals review Now we’re to the last of the local state tournaments; the Virginia State finals, which took place this past weekend at various locations around the state.\u00a0 The finalists […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2411],"tags":[2502,2507,2446,2504,2346,797,1807,2503,2354,2506,2338,2505,1016],"class_list":["post-9271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-baseball","tag-aj-lee","tag-austin-miles","tag-cody-morris","tag-conner-eason","tag-connor-jones","tag-david-wright","tag-derek-casey","tag-eason-recto","tag-hunter-williams","tag-jack-degroat","tag-jacob-bukauskas","tag-scott-sizemore","tag-todd-boss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9271"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9390,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9271\/revisions\/9390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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