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In a battle of the top two teams in Anne Arundel County, the Severna Park Falcons defeated the top seed Arundel Wildcats behind a strong performance by Kody Milton (Maryland) to take the County Championship title for the 4th straight season. In a high scoring affair, the Falcons closed out a 12-9 win in front of a large crowd at Joe Cannon Stadium.

The scoring started early after Severna Park's Nick Horgan (2-for-4, 3 R's) reached on an error and was driven in on a double by Milton (2-for-3, 2 BB's, 3 R's) off of Arundel starter Moises Aristy to take a 1-0 lead. Milton would come around to score on a wild throw by the Wildcat's catcher on a stolen base. After loading the bases with no outs Arundel would respond in the battle half of the inning with a sacrifice fly by Pat Mason (2-for-4, 2 2B's, 2 R's) to score Matt Hagemann and a single by EJ Santana (3-for-4, 2 runs) that also drove in a run off of Severna Park starter George Lesher (WP, 4 IP, 3 ER).

Both starting pitchers would settle down in the second inning before Arundel would add two more runs in the bottom of 3rd. Noel Aristy hit a double to left center and would later score on a fielder's choice by Mason that barely beat the tag at the plate. Pat would come around to score on another fielder's choice by Chase Uhlich.

It wouldn't take long for Severna Park to score as they plated six runs in the top of the 4th, all with two outs. Aristy would finish with 3.2 IP with three ER's. Champ Wert (2020) came on in relief but couldn't gstop the Severna Park offense as they took an 8-4 lead. Horgan and Brendan Simonds each had 2-RBI base hits in the inning.

In the top half of the 5th, Severna Park would add on four more runs, again all with two outs. After a pick off by Wert and strikeout, Severna Park would follow with base hits by AJ Weyant, Nick Horgan, a walk by Cam Clark and a two RBI single by Milton. Simonds would also follow with a ball that dropped in left field to plate two more runs for Severna Park.

Following three earned runs in four innings by Lesher, he was relieved by Simonds in the bottom half of the 5th. Arundel would put up three runs off an RBI single by Hagemann and a hard hit ball by Moises Aristy to third base that ended up in the outfield to score two more.

Dan Ownby would come on in relief for Arundel to hold Severna Park offense at bay with 2.1 innings of shutout ball. In the bottom of the 6th, Arundel threatened to make a comeback. Mason would start the inning off with a hustle play on a pop fly that dropped to get to second and would come around to score on a Santana single. Santana would score on an RBI single by Will Schubert. Following a walk to Uhlich, Milton was brought in to shut the door and got the six- out save to accompany his strong day at the plate.

Both teams received first round byes and will start their run to a state championship this Saturday. Severna Park will face the winner of Old Mill and Meade while Arundel will see the winner of North County and Glen Bernie.