2026 MIAA Baseball Championships: Seekonk, Georgetown Win Late Thrillers; Catholic Memorial Breaks Out; King Philip, Middleborough Crowned

The 2026 MIAA Baseball Championships returned to Polar Park in Worcester for the fourth consecutive year, with five title games between Friday, June 12 and Saturday, June 13.

Two of the matchups went down to the final out -- or even the final strike. There was one champion familiar with the Polar stage that finally reversed its fortunes, another that won for the first time in more than a decade, and one more that snapped a drought of more than a half-century.

Catholic Memorial School used an 11-run inning for the Division 1 Baseball championship, its first in 53 years.

Division 1

What was expected to be a pitching showcase turned into a display of offensive dominance by Catholic Memorial School. The No. 5 seed Knights scored 11 straight runs in the fifth inning to take total control and rolled to a 13-4 win over No. 2 seed Bishop Feehan High School.

Playing in a state final since winning its only other previous appearance in 1973, CM was facing a 4-2 deficit with two out and none on in the top of the fifth. What followed was 12 consecutive baserunners and a share of the record for most runs in an inning in an MIAA Baseball state final.

Estiben Cruz Pina tied the game with a two-run single and Liam McKinney’s RBI single made it 5-4. Richie Curran and Timmy Mills added two-run singles and Kevin Mills a two-run double as part of the explosion.

McKinney had two hits, and RBI and three runs scored, and also pitched a complete game with two earned runs. CM spotted him a 2-0 lead as Carson McCarthy and Rocky Vankoski had RBI singles against Bishop Feehan star lefthander Brody Bumila.

The Shamrocks, playing in their first state final since 1998, took the 4-2 lead as Bumila and Collin McEwan each had two-run singles. But Bumila left after two innings, and the Knights eventually broke it open against the Feehan bullpen.

After falling short twice in the previous four seasons, King Philip Regional High School finally broke through for its first Division 2 championship.

Division 2

Matching up in the state final for the third time in five years, King Philip Regional High School finally turned the result in its favor.

Matt Labriola allowed four hits and struck out four in 6 ⅔ innings and the 11th-seeded Warriors held off No. 4 seed Milton High School, 4-1, for the school’s first baseball championship.

Thomas Lufty gave Labriola and KP all the offense they would need in the first inning, belting an RBI single and eventually scoring on the back end of a double steal attempt.

Jack Naughton’s single cut the deficit in half for the Wildcats in the second, but Cooper Sisti’s RBI single provided a big insurance run in the sixth before Nick Broughton was plunked with the bases loaded.

Ryan Kelly struck out seven for Milton, which beat King Philip for the Division 2 crown in both 2022 and ’23.

Middleborough High School held off Apponequet Regional High School for its first Division 3 Baseball championship since 2015.

Division 3

EJ Wanke’s two-run single provided the offense, and he also pitched the final inning for the save as No. 3 seed Middleborough High School held off No. 5 seed Apponequet Regional High School, 2-1.

In clinching the Sachems’ first state championship since 2015, Wanke induced a game-ending 6-4-3 double play. He was the last of four pitchers for Middleborough, who started with Jacob Landers before turning to Shannon Sylvia and Tullish.

Middleborough was down 1-0 in the third before loading the bases on walks to Tyler Zamora and Tullish around Nolan Trottier hit by pitch. Wanke then shot a liner the opposite way down the right field line to score Zamora and Trottier.

Peter Kanakis came into a bases-loaded jam later in the inning and extinguished the threat, striking out seven over 3 ⅓ hitless innings. But after Bryce Figueroa’s RBI double in nthe second, the Lakers couldn’t do any more damage.

Apponequet was making its first appearance in a state final.

Seekonk High School won its third Division 4 Baseball championship in four seasons, but needed a big two-out rally in the seventh inning to do it.

Division 4

No. 7 seed Seekonk High School was down to its final strike before Brayden McBride drilled a two-run double inside the third base bag, part of a stunning seventh inning as the Warriors topped No. 1 seed Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School, 4-3.

With two out and none on, Seekonk got a hit by pitch and a single from Avian DaRosa to bring McBride to the plate. But after taking the lead, the drama wasn’t over as the Generals put a runner on third with one out before first baseman Austin Robinson snagged a popped-up squeeze bunt attempt and fired to DaRosa at third for an acrobatic double play to end it.

That sealed Seekonk’s third Division 4 championship in the last four years.

Seekonk had a 2-0 lead in the top of the first, but Hamilton-Wenham immediately responded with Owen Waddell’s two-run single.

The Generals, playing in their first state final since 1991, took the lead on a Cormac Heney RBI single in the fifth. Heney also went five innings with five strikeouts, while Cole Arruda struck out eight in six innings for the Warriors.

Georgetown High School also was down to its final out before rallying to win the Division 5 championship, its first since 2012.

Division 5

In another fantastic finish, No. 2 seed Georgetown High School tied it with two outs in the seventh and then scratched across a run in the top of the eighth to shock No. 1 seed English High School, 3-2.

In a rematch of the 2024 state final won by English, it looked again like it was going the way of the Eagles, who took a 2-0 lead into the seventh and held the Royals hitless to that point. But a pair of walks eventually set the stage for Ty Southall, and the lefty laced a two-run triple to right field to tie the game.

In the eighth, the Royals loaded the bases for Ryan Skahan, whose sacrifice fly brought in the winning run and Georgetown’s first baseball title since 2012.

Southall struck out five with no earned runs over the first six innings, but the Royals were having no luck against English starter Jaurel Melo, who struck out 14 before hitting the pitch count limit with two out in the sixth inning.

English was in the Division 5 final for the third consecutive year.

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