Photo Gallery: Castle Rock baseball sweeps twinbill over Kalama

Staking a Claim – Rockets clinch playoff berth in double dip with Chinooks

(From left to right) Castle Rock’s JJ Soden (3), Trevor Rogen, and another anonymous Rocket celebrate with Stuart Teter (2) after winning the first game of a doubelheader against Kalama by a score of 5-4. Teter drove in the game-winning run with a single in the bottom of the seventh inning. / Photos by Candy Durgeloh for Blast Zone Media

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THE ROCK — On the final day of the regular season the Castle Rock baseball team was able to clinch a berth to the playoffs in dramatic fashion, and then celebrated with a mercy rule victory lap in a doubleheader at home against Kalama in 1A Trico League play.

The Rockets won the opener in comeback fashion by a score of 5-4, before coming back to drop Kalama 10-0 in the rematch.

"Credit Kalama and their pitcher in the first game tonight,” Castle Rock skipper Joe Bair said. “They gave us everything we could handle.”

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