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Saratoga Springs Baseball Wins Section II Class AA Championship As No. 7 Seed 
TROY — When the tension ought to overpower Raul Rodriguez, the Saratoga Springs second baseman showed once more Friday night that grade level and age make no difference to the unbelievably gifted and unflappable eighth-grade phenom.

The second round of the Section II Class AA best-of-3 series was tied as Rodriguez confronted Shaker senior starter Andrew Dongelewic, a Division I focus on Stony Brook. Confronting a 1-2 include with two outs in the lower part of the 6th, Rodriguez tranquilly bound a RBI single to focus to score sophomore colleague Michael Mack to give the Blue Streaks the lead.

Zander Teator, who opened the game at shortstop and supplanted Mack on the hill in the fifth, struck out Dom Aquino to end the game to give Saratoga Springs a spellbinding 7-6 triumph over the Blue Bison as the No. 7 seed cleared Shaker in two games. Two evenings prior, the Blue Streaks caught a legendary 7-4 win against Shaker in a challenge that last 12 innings and 3 hours and 51 minutes.

"The central thing we did was not necessarily in every case play sharp baseball, yet we remained all together, we energized in the hole and we brought the energy," said Teator, who struck out eight in acquiring the triumph in help of Mack. "That truly impelled us to the success."

Saratoga Springs (18-7), cultivated No. 7, advances to play the Section III boss on June 4 in the state quarterfinals. The Blue Streaks matched the accomplishment turned in Thursday by the school's softball crew that likewise come out on top for the AA championship as a No. 7 seed by disturbing top-cultivated Shenendehowa 6-4 out of eight innings.

Dissimilar to Wednesday, the ball club didn't need additional innings to beat Shaker this time — in spite of the fact that Saratoga Springs followed 6-2 after the fourth-cultivated Blue Bison (14-10) scored multiple times in the highest point of the fifth.

Rodriguez, who started the season in the JV group, had a quick effect upon his appearance to the varsity. He immediately climbed to the highest point of the batting request and has previously secured himself as one of the area's chief players as an eighth grader. Little did Rodriguez acknowledge he would have an indispensable impact of the Blue Streaks' title season.

"Clearly, when I see him think of a sprinter in scoring position, it made me take a full breath," Saratoga Springs trainer Andy Cuthbertson said. "I just felt like he planned to make it happen. I have all the trust on the planet in him."

"The experience is insane. It is astounding going from changed last year, JV this year and get called up to win the part. Unfathomable," Rodriguez said. "I need to thank the mentors, thank my old mentors, thank my partners and my folks only for this astounding second I've had."

Dongelewic had Rodriguez down 0-2, yet the capable second baseman took a pitch and afterward tore his second hit of the game to give the Blue Streaks the lead.

"At the point when I got 0-2, I just remained loose," Rodriguez said. "I was not hoping (to drive in the triumphant run)."

"He has quite recently come up and done astounding things," said Mack, who had three hits and drove in the group's second spat a four-run rally in the lower part of the 6th. "He has endured through all that and played astounding for us."

Shaker mentor Joe Rispole and his instructing staff did broad exploring on Rodriguez. He wonders about exactly the way in which great the eighth grader as of now is.

"He has no example," Rispole said. "(Ryan) Bates had him down 0-2 a few evenings ago. He tossed him a slider and he hit a fair hit up the center. ... It is absolutely impossible that a 12 or 13-year-old youngster ought to hit like that and opening for the Section II title group. He is an ability."