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With Bishop Carroll coming in as the defending Class 5A baseball champ and stocked with state tournament veterans, Charlie Ebright was concerned his top-seeded Golden Eagles might be looking past Emporia on Friday.

"With young guys thinking that in playing the eighth seed they just have to show up," Ebright said.

Not a problem.

The Eagles jumped Emporia for five runs in the first inning and went on to win the opening-round game 11-2 as Austin Woodard and Alex Kruse combined for a two-hitter.

Carroll (21-2) will meet No. 4 Topeka Seaman (19-4), a 9-4 winner over Lansing, in today's 12:30 p.m. semifinal at Hummer Sports Complex. Seventh-seed Arkansas City, which rode the one-hit pitching of Shawn Acosta to upset two-seed St. Thomas Aquinas 1-0 will face Blue Valley West in the 10 a.m. semifinal. ...

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