2A baseball: Enterprise outlasts North Sevier for state title – Salt Lake Tribune

“I’ve been looking forward to this day for a long time,” Bundy said. “Losing these seniors, taking them through T-ball all the way through, it’s bittersweet.”

While the sweet from the second game for Enterprise came in a 10-1 lead after the second inning, the bitter was the never-quit comeback shown from North Sevier. The 2A East champions forced the final battle by beating Enterprise 9-4 in the opening game behind a three-run homer from Casey Anderson.

North Sevier started its long climb out of the big hole in Game 2 with a bases-clearing double from Fisher Andersen in the second inning, and when Landry Nelson came through with a two-run single in a three-run sixth, the deficit was down to a single run.

Then came the seventh. Chaos reigned supreme, and it started with Enterprise producing three huge runs in the top half that pushed the lead back to four. Caden Prisbrey grounded out to score one, Cole Stratton added an RBI single, and he scored on a wild pitch from Andersen.

They would need every last run.

“I don’t think this will hit for about three weeks,” Bundy said. “It won’t sink in because we went through so many outs before we got the last one.”

With Brandel Shumway on the mound in relief of starter Treyson Christiansen, the senior got the first two outs in the bottom of the seventh with relative ease, but North Sevier didn’t go quietly.

“The last outs were so tough. I knew I just had to battle back and my defense would help me,” Shumway said.

After an Anderson double moved Andersen over to third, Braxton Maxwell was hit by a pitch to load the bases. With Treyson Christiansen at third, his throwing error on a Colby Christiansen grounder led to two runs, and Nelson was hit by a pitch to put the potential winning run at first base.

“When he made that throw to first, I thought, ‘Oh, crap. Here comes a roller coaster,’ ” Enterprise senior catcher and career doubles record-holder Kayson Bundy said.

When Isaac Thompson grounded out to second for the final out, it set off a celebration that washed away the disappointment of last year’s title game loss. Shumway struck out at the plate for the final out that day, but coming through on the mound made the redemption that much sweeter.

“That was ridiculous,” Kayson Bundy said of the final inning. “They didn’t stop fighting, just kept chipping away. As soon as it got to a one-run game, we had to work something out.”

And with the wave of emotion from nearly losing all of a nine-run lead to breaking through and getting the elusive state title, it’s a memory Bundy and his fellow seniors will never forget.

“This was a lot more fun. We’ll remember it our whole lives,” Bundy said. “You don’t remember a whole lot with a blowout.”

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