It wasn’t Brody Bumila’s finest, but with a boost from his bat Bishop Feehan is on to the D1 semifinals
ATTLEBORO — Brody Bumila didn’t have his ‘A’ stuff in the first inning. His Bishop Feehan teammates had his back.
After surrendering two runs in the top of the first, the No. 2 Shamrocks exploded for five runs in the bottom half, sending 10 batters to the plate and overturning the early deficit en route to a 10-5 win over No. 23 Pope Francis in the Division 1 quarterfinals.
Andrew Shute and Bumila each singled for the Shamrocks (17-6) in the first before Colin McEwan (RBI single), Bryce Heinselman (RBI triple), and Nolan Harvey (2-RBI double) delivered big hits.
“It meant so much for the team to just kind of rally around me considering I didn’t have too hot of a start,” Bumila said. “Them coming out and performing like that in the first inning, and then [keeping] it going for the next four innings, putting up 10 runs meant a lot to me.”
Bumila added a solo homer in the second after returning to the mound – he pitched four innings, allowing two hits, two runs (both in the first), four walks, and striking out seven. He threw 74 pitches before making way for Braelon Carrera, who finished with two scoreless innings.
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The Cardinals (12-11) jumped on Bumila early — a leadoff walk preceded an RBI triple to the right-center gap from Jack Reyngold, who then scored on a grounder.
The Shamrocks weren’t too worried, posting crooked numbers in three of the first four innings to keep the Cardinals at bay until a late rally.
“They punched us in the face in the top of the first,” coach Joe Breen said. “All year long, there’s been games where we’re down and we’re down late, so being down early wasn’t a big deal to us, and we knew if we just stuck to our plan, we’d be OK.”
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