Justice is served in the Class 3A championship series in baseball.

The best-of-three battle for the title begins on Saturday night at 7:30 in the southern corner of Berkeley County, where Clinton (24-3) visits Hanahan (26-7).

The series is to be broadcast locally via WPCC (96.5 FM, 1410 AM). Game two is scheduled for Tuesday on the Red Devils’ home field. If necessary, a decisive third game is to be contested at a neutral site, to be determined by the S.C. High School League, next Saturday.

Clinton has won 16 games in a row, six of them in the playoffs. Hanahan needed two games on Friday night to advance. Brookland-Cayce forced a second game by defeating the Hawks, 5-2, but Hanahan bounced back to win the Low Country title by a score of 3-1.

The Red Devils are as rested as a team playing its 28^th game can be. Hanahan’s Nick Cappello stopped the Bearcats on three hits, striking out eight, but he threw 112 pitches and is not available for Saturday night. Neither team scored after the Hawks scored two runs in the top of the third inning. Catcher Mason Brady and center fielder Hunter Gomes drove in the runs, each with two-out singles.

Porter Sprovero earned a save by recording the final two outs.

Clinton placed three players — center fielder Wilson Wages, first baseman-pitcher Wil Stewart and infielder Zane McLendon — on the S.C. Baseball Coaches Association all-state team. Cappello – undoubtedly someone has called him “Ah” – shortstop Camden Kackley and Brady represent the Hawks.