St. Mary’s senior Nick Hulme intensely watched Parker Weekley as his teammate prepared to deal what he hoped — what every Saint on the field or in the Joe Cannon Stadium bleachers hoped — would be the last pitch. Hulme and Weekley discussed something like this the other day.
As much as Hulme hated handing the ball away in the top of the seventh inning with two McDonogh runners on base and one out away from St. Mary’s first title in nine years, he trusted his friend to close. With a flyout, the dark brown Joe Cannon hill turned white and blue as St.
Mary’s celebrated its 7-3 victory over McDonogh for the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association B Conference title Sunday. The Saints beat McDonogh, 8-1, on Thursday in the semifinals of the double-elimination tournament. “I’ve been waiting for that moment for a long time,” Hulme said.
“We all have,” senior Henry Carbone added. The Saints (21-4) bring home the program’s first MIAA trophy since 2015 and fifth overall, following their first winning season since 2017. “It’s pure joy now,” St.
Mary’s coach Mike Bronakoski said. “It’s been a long road of up and downs getting back here, adversity our program and kids have faced collectively. To sum it up, they’ve been winners off the field a long time.
It’s nice to see them recognized as winners on the field.” Expectations followed St. Mary’s switch from the A to B Conference this spring.
After years forged in the fires of Division I-rich c.
