Saturday, June 11, 2022

Warde Baseball Captures State Title

Warde Baseball is the 2022 CIAC Class LL State Champions. 

The Mustangs defeated Southington 7-5 on Saturday afternoon at Palmer Field in Middletown to claim the title. Tremendous season for the Mustangs, capturing both the FCIAC and State title. 

It's the third state title in Fairfield baseball history. The first for the current Fairfield Warde High School. Andrew Warde won the title in 1981 and Fairfield High School (when there was one high school in town) won the title in 2002. 

Warde got on the board in the bottom of the first on a Griffin Polley two-out suicide-squeeze bunt to score Roman DiGiacomo. 

Southington tied it with a suicide-squeeze bunt of their own when Jaden Maia laid one down in the third inning. 

Warde took the lead right back in the bottom half of the third. A ground out and error led to one run to make it 2-1. Later in the inning with the Mustangs up 3-1, Jack Andrews hit a sacrifice fly to right to plate another run and make it 4-1 Warde after three. 

Warde added another in the fifth to go up 5-1. 

In the sixth, John Heitzman and Zach Broderick each had RBI singles to extend the Mustang lead to 7-1. 

Broderick, in his final high school start, was great on the mound once again. He came out with Warde holding a 7-1 lead and two on base and one out in the seventh. 

As has been well documented by the local media, Broderick's father, Mike, was a part of the 1981 Warde championship team. Also on that team was John Swaim, whose son Carson is on the Mustangs squad this year. 

Paddy Galvin came on for the Mustangs, and ran into trouble, but ultimately was able get through the inning and leave the tying run at the plate. 

Congrats to all the Mustang coaches and players on the championship and on an overall incredible season. 


Mustang players run over to celebrate with their fans

Warde celebrates with "The Stampede"


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