(6-10-26) Two Midwest Athletic Conference (MAC) teams, St. Henry and Delphos St. John’s, will play for Ohio State Baseball Championships this week.

The Redskins will play in the D VI state semifinal game against Berlin Hiland…who is looking to win its 4th straight title. While the Blue Jays will match-up in a D VII private school semifinal game with Tiffin Calvert.

Team summaries courtesy OHSAA – 2026 Baseball State Tournament Preview

D VI

Division VI

  • Semifinal #1: No. 4 Hartville Lake Center Christian (23-4-1) vs. No. 8 Galion Northmor (25-5), Thursday, June 11 at 7 17 Credit Union Park, 10 a.m.
  • Semifinal #2: No. 2 Berlin Hiland (24-4) vs. No. 3 St. Henry (26-3), Thursday, June 11 at 7 17 Credit Union Park, 1 p.m.

State Championship: Friday, June 12 at 7 17 Credit Union Park, 10 a.m.

ST. HENRY: This will mark the seventh state appearance for St. Henry after the third-ranked team in D-VI rolled past Seneca East 11-6 in the regional finals.

Drew Langenkamp was 3-5 for the Redskins, which produced 10 hits in beating Patrick Henry 6-5 in the semifinals, with Jake Schwieterman going 3-4. St. Henry advanced to regionals for the 26th time in school history by beating Colonel Crawford 7-4 with Schwieterman and Austin Kunk going 3-4. Max Delzeith fanned a dozen in an 8-0 two-hit blanking of Parkway in the district semis. Langenkamp went 3-3 while scoring four runs. Indiana Tech commit Owen Zimmerman had three base knocks as did Kunk and Hudson Schmitz in a 21-0 beatdown of Ada in sectionals. The team has set the school record for stolen bases with 123, surpassing the previous record of 120 set in 1999. St. Henry, 26-3 this season, is 1,428-596 all-time in baseball with the last trip to state coming in 2023. There have been three state championship squads, 1999, 2000 and 2003.

Former MLB outfielder Wally Post was a member of the 1945 and 46 state teams and is the great grandfather of right fielder Tate Boeckman.

HILAND: Defending Division VI state champion Hiland will be making its fourth consecutive trip to state after a pair of 12-0 wins in regionals. Mike Miller threw five two-hit innings of a regional final win over Mechanicsburg, with Jonah Yoder going 3-4 and Gerut Monigold driving home four. Andre Yoder tossed a two-hitter in the semifinals versus Waterford with Gerut Monigold 4-4 with two doubles, a triple and five RBIs. The Hawks trailed 2-0 before rolling past Fort Frye 11-2 in the district finals for a trip to regionals for the 16th time. Grady Monigold was 2-2 with a home run and two RBIs and Griffin Monigold had a double and three RBIs in beating Buckeye Trail 6-1. Miller threw a four-hitter with 13 Ks after tossing a no-hitter in the sectionals in an 11-1 victory over Bridgeport. Grady Monigold, a Malone recruit, has set season records at the school for home runs with 11 and RBIs with 49 and career marks for homers with 20 and RBIs with 134. Hiland is making its eighth state appearance, winning it all the last three seasons as well as 2016, while finishing as runners-up three times. 

D VII

Division VII

  • Semifinal #1: No. 1 Tiffin Calvert vs. Delphos St. John’s (18-7), Friday, June 12 at Thurman Munson Memorial Stadium, 10 a.m.
  • Semifinal #2: Leipsic (17-9) vs. No. 9 South Webster (21-10), Friday, June 12 at Thurman Munson Memorial Stadium, 1 p.m.

State Championship: Saturday, June 13 at 7 17 Credit Union Park, 4 p.m.

DELPHOS ST. JOHN’S: Delphos St. John’s is two wins from duplicating the accomplishment of a state championship by the basketball team back in March. Andrew Elwer fired a six-hit shutout to beat Newton 3-0 after Cam Elwer, a Furman basketball commit, did not permit an earned run in an 8-1 victory over Fort Loramie in the regional semis. Cam Elwer was 3-4 and drove in two and Brayden Klaus threw out a runner at home plate in the first inning against Newton while Andrew Elwer had two doubles and scored three runs versus Fort Loramie. Andrew Elwer and Braden Lindeman teamed up for a two-hit shutout in a 9-0 blanking of Mohawk in the district title game. The Blue Jays, which have a tournament ERA of 0.677, have outscored the opposition 60-4 in the tourney, including wins over Lima Temple Christian 23-0 and Delphos Jefferson 17-3, and batted .412 with runners in scoring position in the regionals. For the tournament, the seventh-rated team by Prep Baseball and unranked by the OHSBCA is batting .415 with 60 runs in five games featuring 25 extra-base hits. This will be the second state appearance for DSJ, the other coming in 2011.  

TIFFIN CALVERT: Top-ranked Tiffin Calvert has dominated in tournament play, outscoring opponents 63-6. Calvert won regional games over Maplewood 16-5 in the semifinals and Central Christian 10-0 in the finals after beating Cardinal Stritch 17-0, Lakeside Danbury 11-0 and South Central 9-1 in the first three tourney contests. Logan Ritzler pitched a two-hit shutout versus Central Christian with Charlie Palm driving in three runs and scoring twice. Vincenzo Lyons was 3-3 with three runs and two RBIs versus Maplewood and AJ Shoemaker 2-2 with two runs and two RBIs. Lyons was also 3-3 in the district finals and Ritzler 2-2 with two runs and two RBIs versus Danbury. Lyons and Tucker King went 2-2 against Stritch. Ritzler has thrown 16 innings with 24 Ks while not permitting an earned run in the tourney. AJ Shoemaker, a Lorain County CC commit, now has 131 career hits. Charlie Palm has tied the school mark of 14 doubles in a season held by Nick Palm and now has the single-season stolen base record with 30. Cameron Moyer is the new career RBI leader with 125. This marks the fourth state trip in five years for Calvert, which lost in the semifinals the previous three appearances, including 6-4 to Newark Catholic last year. Calvert has scored 324 runs in 29 games with a .276 batting average and .499 OBP.