Arvada West baseball, with parallels to 1994 title team with Roy Halladay, stays hot in Class 5A state tournament

Arvada West baseball, with parallels to 1994 title team with Roy Halladay, stays hot in Class 5A state tournament

The No. 1-seeded Arvada West Wildcats cruised through the first two games of the Class 5A baseball state tournament on Friday at All-Star Park in Lakewood, beating Chatfield in the opening round and then topping Pine Creek in the second round.

A-West baseball overcomes scare, early deficit on Day 1 of 5A state tournament - Colorado Preps

LAKEWOOD — Junior Cooper Vais and Arvada West’s defense slammed the door shut on Pine Creek late-afternoon at Keli McGregor Field at Blue Sky All-Star Park. Vais had 11 strikeouts while retiring Pine Creek’s final 20 batters in a row to finish out the complete-game victory on the mound. A-West took a 9-2 victory to automatically advance the top-seeded Wildcats (24-3 record) to the Final 4 of the Class 5A state baseball tournament next weekend. A…