WHS Baseball Crushes Pembroke, Advances to State Semifinals

Windham High School's baseball squad, competing in their first state tournament in team history, trounced no. 3 seed Pembroke Academy Saturday 12-3.

The win for the no. 6 Jaguars lands them a spot in the NHIAA Division II semifinals, where they will have a date on Thursday with no. 2 Portsmouth High School.

Junior pitcher Jeff Peterson allowed 3 runs, 1 earned, in the first inning. He later shut the door for the rest of the game, pitching a complete game giving up 6 hits, 3 walks and striking out 3.

According to Head Coach Derek Lee, the win avenges Windham's 10-9 regular season loss to Pembroke.

Other stat leaders for Windham were as follows:

Junior 1B Connor Whittemore went 2 for 5 with 1 RBI.

Senior CF Matt Carbonello went 2 for 4 with 1 RBI 3 runs scored and 1 walk.

Freshman DH Connor Moynihan went 2 for 4 with 2 runs scored and 3 RBI.

Freshman Catcher Riley Magee went 3 for 5 with 1 run scored and 1 RBI.

The state semifinals game will take place at 4 p.m. at Southern New Hampshire University.

Portsmouth is also coming off a blowout victory, slamming Souhegan 13-3 in the quarterfinals round.

The two squads met just once in the regular season, with Portsmouth shutting out Windham 4-0.

Also in action was Windham High's girls softball squad, who saw their season end against Hollis-Brookline by a narrow 2-0 margin.