Baserunners all over the place, but none of them score for Xavier

DES MOINES - No execution, no clutch hits, no runs. No state championship.No more season, for that matter.Just way too many nos all the way around Wednesday night for Cedar Rapids Xavier in a 1-0 loss to Sioux City East in a Class 4A state baseball tournament quarterfinal."We played really good baseball," said Xavier's Mitch Keller. "Hats off to them. They played a little bit better."The top of the seventh inning was this game in a microcosm for Xavier (25-16). Keller walked leading off against East reliever Trey Lapke, and Bryce Grimm was hit by a 3-0 pitch.Corbin Woods took a strike, failed to get a sacrifice bunt down and eventually struck out looking. After another strikeout, Zach Brown walked to load the bases, but Jordan Ratz struck out swinging at a 2-2 fastball.The Saints stranded the bases loaded twice and left 11 men on base. They failed three times to get a sacrifice bunt down when called upon to do so. They had a long Woods fly ball to left-center field caught near the warning track. They had what looked like an extra-base hit to right-center field taken away by a terrific diving catch.By the way, the Metro had two teams play here Wednesday (Linn-Mar was the other) and neither scored. Fooey to you, Principal Park."Pretty much frustrating," Ratz said. "Not exactly a storybook ending. But I wouldn't want to do it with anyone else. I had some great teammates.""Those (bunts) probably hurt a little bit, but it still comes down to getting those two-out hits," said Xavier Coach Dave Schemmel. "Gosh, we had guys on base every inning. Every single inning. Had guys on third base a couple of times. Good teams get those hits. I mean, we're a good team. But to win games at state, you've got to get two-out hits."East starting pitcher Davis Camarigg (9-0) threw the first six innings, with Lapke, somewhat surprisingly, coming on for the seventh. He was shaky, to say the least, but got the outs when absolutely needed."He's been closing games for us for three years," East Coach Jared Ocker explained, when asked why he removed Camarigg."Whew," Lapke said, taking a deep breath. "That's all I can say ... I found the zone, eventually."Keller took the loss, though he pitched well enough to get a no decision at the very least. The junior right-hander, committed to the University of North Carolina, scattered five hits, walked one and struck out six.East (31-9), which came in hitting .368 as a team, got the only run of the game in the fifth on a Dom Thompson-Williams RBI single to left-center."Mitch threw a great game," Woods said. "We just couldn't get any runs for him."