Stoughton High Baseball Looks Ahead to Postseason After Setback at North Attleboro

The was in action Wednesday afternoon when they traveled to North Attleboro for a Hockomock League crossover game, featuring the second place teams in the Davenport Division (Stoughton) and the Kelley-Rex Division (NA) going head to head. 

Unfortunately, the Knights were upended 9-1 in the last regular season game before the MIAA state tournament.

Stoughton falls to 10-10, but qualified for the postseason on Monday with a .

North Attleboro jumped right out of the gate getting to Stoughton early and often in which turned out to be a home run derby for the Rocketeers.

Stoughton scored its lone run in the third when junior captain Mike Connelly hit a sacrifice fly to drive in fellow junior captain Pat Jackman.

Brian Kaplan, Will McGrath and Pat Raeke pitched for Stoughton.

This was Stoughton's third loss to NA this season.

After the game, Jackman was quick to turn his attention to the upcoming state tournament.

"This is just one game. We are going to have a couple of good practices and we will be ready for the tournament. This was one of those games you learn from and move on. I still think come tournament time we are going to be a team that no one is going to want to face," he said.

The Knights will find out on Tuesday who they will face in the first round of the tournament which features a "March Madness" type of feel to it.

Connelly was very optimistic when analyzing his teams chances come next week.

"We have been playing real good baseball the second half of the season. After 8 games no one thought we would have a chance to make a run at it, but we always believed in ourselves. We are going to be prepared and are going to give a big fight no matter who we are playing."

The Knights have a solid week of rest before the road to become state champions gets underway.