Logan Garvey had already caught 13 innings on Saturday and didn’t want to catch any more than he needed to.

So, he did what he could to make sure he only had to catch one more.

“It’s been a long day with two games catching, and I didn’t want to go into extra innings,” Garvey said. “So, I knew I had a 3-2 count, and I didn’t care what it was. I knew he had to come to me with something, and I just wanted to find a gap.”

He found the left-center field gap, chasing home Mikey Bonagura with the Chapel Field baseball team’s third run, and Bryce Hollo worked in and out of trouble in the bottom of the seventh, sealing the Lions’ New York State Public High School Athletic Association championship with a 3-2 win over Section 5 champion Northstar Christian Academy Knights at Maine-Endwell High School.

“It’s indescribable,” Garvey said. “After last year in the finals, it’s definitely indescribable to feel.”

The biggest reaction came from Hollo, who got the first out, but then gave up a walk to Da’Vonn Stevens and a double to Dominic Kurmis to put runners on second and third with one out.

But he got himself out of it by striking out Parker Seeley and inducing a comebacker from A.J. Mitchell.

“I don’t remember how I got it,” Hollo said. “I just know that I had it, and for about three seconds, time stopped. I didn’t think about the flip. It just all worked out.”

He snagged the chopper, trotted toward first base, and after first baseman Will Wilson recorded the pull out, Hollo spiked his glove on the ground behind first base in celebration.

“We’ve been chasing this for years,” said Leam Powell, who beat Section 4 champion Deposit-Hancock in the semifinal earlier in the day with a one-hit shutout. “We lost last year, and then we lost (in the state final) in basketball. When the ball was hit to Bryce for the last out, time just slowed down, and everything was kind of shut out, and then it all sped back up when we won.”

Powell contributed in several ways on Saturday, both with his arm and even his legs.

Not only did he take a no-hitter into the seventh inning in the Lions’ 5-0 win over the Deposit-Hancock Eagles in the semifinals with 13 strikeouts, he also stole the Lions’ first run in the title game.

When he ran through a stop sign to reach third base in the semifinal game, he told his father and Chapel Field coach Shawn Powell he was “feeling fast.”

“Usually, I’m one of the slowest guys on the team, but I started timing the kid,” Powell said. “I saw the catcher just throwing the ball back slow and I was like, ‘we’ll see what I can do.’”

With Will Wilson batting and two out, Powell timed Kurmis’ throw back to starting pitcher and took off for the plate, beating the return throw, and giving the Lions a 1-0 lead.

“That was a shock to me,” coach Powell said. “He just took off.”

The Lions added another run in the fifth inning on an RBI single by Drew Hollo.

However, the Knights drew even in the bottom of the inning when Bryce Hollo walked to A.J. Mitchell to lead off the inning and then Tim Leery delivered a one-out single, sending Mitchell to third. After Leery stole second, Matt Allen delivered a two-run single to tie the game.

Although he allowed base runners in all but two innings, those were the only runs Hollo gave up.

“He definitely scared me a couple of times, but I got him through it,” Garvey said. “I just tried to keep him out of his own head and just throwing strikes, and let the infield and outfield do what they do best.”

The defense didn’t need to do much in the first game of the day at Mirabito Stadium in Binghamton as Leam Powell recorded 13 of the 21 outs on his own.

“I didn’t have anything not working,” Powell said. “I struck a couple of kids out on knuckleballs, curveballs and fastballs, two-seam, changeups, everything. It was just another good day today.”

Powell and Mikey Bonagura gave the Lions a 2-0 lead in the third with two-out RBI singles. Noah Swart drove in a run on a sixth-inning single, and another run came in on a Deposit-Hancock throwing error. Drew Hollo chased in the fifth run with a single.

“We came in and we were seeking revenge (for last year’s 14-5 loss in the state finals to the Eagles),” Powell said. “We just wanted to win. We were so hungry after losing last year.”

That hunger actually had to wait an additional sleep to be satisfied. Both teams were on the field on Friday at SUNY Broome when the rain started while the Eagles were taking infield practice.

After waiting about a half hour, umpires and tournament officials postponed Friday’s semifinal to Saturday morning at Mirabito Stadium at 10 a.m., which was originally scheduled to be the site for the state title game.

“I was exhausted (heading into the second game),” Leam Powell said. “But I was like, ‘let’s keep that energy that we got from winning the first game today and just roll right with it.’”

The Knights got their game in on Friday, beating Section 5 champion Parishville-Hopkinton, 7-5, and had nearly a full day’s rest before meeting the Lions.

The Lions and Eagles were the only teams to play a Saturday semifinal.

“I won’t say it was unfair, but it wasn’t ideal,” coach Powell said. “I don’t have any ill feelings at all for our leadership or the leadership who had to make decisions. They did everything they could.”