Faced with a win-or-go-home game 3 of the best-of-3 quarterfinal against Jesuit in the Select Division I playoff, St. Thomas More junior pitcher Noah Gauthier wasn’t going to let the seniors down.
“We have 16 seniors on this team and their backs were against the wall,” he said. “And I wasn’t going to let them down.”
Gauthier’s complete game three hit shutout, aided by a two-run homer from senior Riley Rowell, was the difference as the Cougars knocked off the Blue Jays 5-0 in the third game to knock Jesuit from the playoffs and advance to next week’s best-of-3 semifinal against Catholic High of Baton Rouge…