WIAA Baseball: Central Meets East Saturday for State Berth

Updated 7:30 p.m. Saturday: After Central led for most of the game, East drove in five runs to win 7-6 to head to state. Story .

Brookfield East and Brookfield Central each won WIAA summer baseball sectional semifinal games at Germantown on Friday, and they'll travel up Pilgrim Road on Saturday to decide a berth at the state tournament.

Due to rain that delayed Friday's semifinals, the championship game was moved to 5 p.m. Saturday, from Friday.

East defeated Pewaukee 6-5 in the second semifinal game by scoring a run in the bottom of the seventh.

The Spartans led 5-3 heading into the final inning, but two errors contributed to two runs and Pewaukee tied the game.

In the seventh, Mike Eberle led off with a walk and pinch-runner Andy Wiesen took second on a wild pickoff throw. Bryan Sylla was intentionally walked and a sacrifice bunt moved up the runners and loaded the bases when the out was not made at first.

With bases loaded, a wild pitch brought Wiesen home with the winning run.

Patrick O'Brien and Nick Kanavas each drove in a pair of runs; O'Brien socked a solo homer to right for the game's first run. Starting pitcher Brian Sylla went six strong innings.

East improved to 16-13; the Spartans were 1-2 in three games against Central during the regular season.

Brookfield Central got four hits from Connor Shipman and more hitting up and down the lineup to beat Menomonee Falls 10-6 in Friday's first game.

The Lancers improved to 21-11 with the victory. Dan Barwick stroked two doubles and Jack Lawton also had two hits for the Lancers. Matt Haralson was the winning pitcher and Brad Leachy threw the final 1 2/3 innings to close out the game.