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'We're just rolling': Pitching tandem has ignited Braintree baseball's run to Div. 1 semis

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Braintree High baseball advances to the MIAA Division 1 state semifinals after defeating Natick 2-0 .

Sophomore Luke Joyce threw a complete game shutout, allowing only six hits and one walk.

Joyce and senior Connor Grieve have been alternating complete games throughout the playoffs.

The Wamps are two more knockouts away from the program's first state title since the glory days of back-to-back Super 8 titles in 2015 and 2016 .

The Wamps had been tripped up by this quarterfinal hurdle in both 2022 and last year .

"It feels like the whole town is counting on us to bring it home," Joyce Canavan said.

"We just gotta keep going," Joyce said of Braintree .

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