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Alex Fietek and top-ranked Windsor baseball turned in a monster performance in a huge game on Monday.
Fietek threw a no-hitter, and his team handled No. 3 Longmont 10-0 in five innings. He allowed just one baserunner when he hit a batter in the second inning, according to BoCoPreps.com.
“The only thing I was thinking about was getting my team some ground balls,” Fietek said on Tuesday. “I wasn’t trying to overpower the hitter. It was just all about getting ground balls and letting my defense work for me.”
The game was actually delayed by rain in the top of the fifth with one out. So Fietek had to sit for a half-hour before finishing up the game.
“When we hit the 30-minute rain delay, that’s when I kind of came the realization that I only needed two more outs for the no-hitter,” Fietek said. “I didn’t think coach would put me back in. Because once you go on a long rain delay, then you have a little bit of rest, it’s hard to go back in.”
“I just warmed up with my catcher,” Fietek added. “We took about 10 minutes to warm up, and I just got back after it.”
It was Fietek’s third no-hitter of his high school career. He is now 4-0 this season with a 1.72 ERA in 20 1/3 innings.
Monday’s contest, which was moved up to avoid poor weather later this week, was a huge matchup of two title contenders. Longmont entered with a 15-game winning streak — the Trojans hadn’t lost since their opener on March 16.
But Windsor jumped all over the Trojans early Monday, and led 7-0 after two innings. Zach Watts and Keegan Vialpando, both seniors, each had three RBIs for the Wizards.
“We keep a mentality of a 9-vs-1 approach — we take all nine of our guys that were playing against that one pitcher,” Fietek said. “We all work together as a team, and we just generate runs, and hope for the kind of pitching performance that we’ve been doing a lot this year.”
Windsor, top-ranked in both the coaches poll and the 4A RPI standings, is now 16-1 this season.
“Our goal is just to make it to districts, do well in that, and then hopefully get to that state (tournament),” Fietek said.
Windsor closes out its regular season with a set of games against Berthoud on Thursday and Saturday.