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2023 MHSAA Tournament: Division 1 State Semifinal - Woodhaven vs Dakota

EAST LANSING - Evan Langlois threw a complete game allowing just one earned run in pitching Brownstown Woodhaven past Macomb Dakota 6-4 in the Division I state semifinals on Thursday morning.

The Warriors rallied from a 4-0 deficit with a five-run fourth inning, batting around to win for the 19th time in their last 21 games, advancing to the state finals for the second time in school history.

With two out and a runner on second in the bottom of the fourth, Andrew Phillips walked and Tyler Harris followed with a double to left-center scoring two runs. Michael Budai then drove in Harris with a single. After a Gary Pilgrim base hit, Jacob Wright hit an RBI single to right. A Nick Phillips hit to left plated Pilgrim with the final run of the inning.

Langlois gave up just two hits the rest of the way to finish with a six-hitter. The Wayne State commit fanned five and walked just one in helping Woodhaven move within one win of its first state championship.

The Warriors, which came back from a 7-2 sixth-inning deficit against Grosse Pointe South in a 9-7 quarterfinal win, added an insurance run in the fifth on a Budai run-scoring single.

Dakota scored all four of its runs in the third. Luke Marley and Matt Wouters hit one-out singles and Blake Garbarino was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Brendan Borowicz brought in Marley with a fielder’s choice ground out and an error plated Wouters. A Will DeMasse single scored Garbarino and the final run by the Cougars came when pinch runner Braylon Ryan scored during a rundown between first and second base.

Harris had a single and double to lead a nine-hit attack for the Warriors, which received four hits, four runs and RBIs from the 7-8-9 hitters in the Woodhaven lineup, Andrew Phillips, Harris and Budai. Pilgrim, who made a nice catch in center field to help prevent a Dakota comeback in the sixth, and Budai chipped in with a pair of singles apiece.

DeMasse, who permitted five runs in 3.2 innings to take the loss, had three hits and Wouters two for Dakota, in the state Final Four for just the second time ever.

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Dakota           004  000  0  -  4  6  0
Woodhaven   000  510  x  -  6  9  2

Records: Woodhaven 32-11, Dakota 26-13-2.

Winning pitcher: Evan Langlois (7 innings, 4 runs, 1 earned run, 6 hits, 5 strikeouts, 1 walk).

Losing pitcher: Will DeMasse (3.2 innings, 5 runs, 6 hits, 3 strikeouts, 3 walks). Other: Brendan Przybylski (2.1 innings, 1 run, 3 hits, 4 strikeouts, 1 walk).

Leading hitters: (Dakota) - Blake Garbarino run; Brendan Borowicz RBI; Braylon Ryan run; Will DeMasse 3 singles, RBI; Luke Marley single, run; Matt Wouters 2 singles, run. (Woodhaven) - Gary Pilgrim 2 singles, run; Jacob Wright single, RBI; Nick Phillips single, RBI; Evan Langlois single; Dawson Terry run; Andrew Phillips 2 runs; Tyler Harris single, double, run, 2 RBIs; Michael Budai 2 singles, run, 2 RBIs.