Sun, 06/07/2015 - 8:00am

BEN BULKELEY, Staff Reporter

The Wiscasset High School boys varsity baseball team will face off against second-seeded Searsport on Tuesday, June 10. BEN BULKELEY/Wiscasset Newspaper

The Wiscasset Wolverines redemption tour begins June 10.

The Wiscasset High School boys varsity baseball team plays at 3 p.m. Wednesday, June 10 against Searsport District High School in Searsport.

If the Wolverines want to go on a 2014-esque run, they will have to begin with a tough Vikings team.

Searsport earned the No. 2 spot in Western Class D after finishing the year with 12 wins against four losses. Neither the Vikings nor the Wolverines shared a common opponent in 2015, but Searsport twice blanked 2014 Class D champion Bangor Christian with wins April 29 (5-0) and May 11 (4-0).

Richmond, buoyed again by ace Mike Stewart, sprinted out in front and never looked back this spring, as the Wildcats finished with a 13-3 record and the top spot in the playoffs. They will play in the first round against eighth-seeded Forest Hills School (7-9). Last year, Wiscasset was able to upset Richmond in Richmond to move onto the Class D West regional finals.

Rounding out the rest of the bracket will be fourth seed Greenville (12-4) against fifth seed Valley (8-6) and third-ranked Buckfield (11-5) against six seed Rangeley (3-8). Wiscasset knocked perennial power Buckfield out of the playoffs last year in the regional finals before falling to Bangor Christian in the state finals.

On the other side of the bracket are several familiar teams, including Bangor Christian, which made the playoffs despite a down year. The eighth-seeded Patriots (9-7) will play against nine seed Woodland (9-6) in the preliminary round June 9. The winner of that game will play top-seeded Southern Aroostook (13-2) June 11.

Further down the Eastern Class D bracket will see June 9 preliminary games like fifth seed Hodgdon (8-6) taking on 12 seed Schenck (6-10) with the winner facing fourth-seeded Washburn (10-4); six seed Shead (13-2) taking on 11 seed Katahdin (5-9) with the winner facing Ashland (11-5) and seventh seeded Fort Fairfield (9-5) playing against 10 seed Penobscot (7-9) to decide who will play second seed Stearns (13-3) in the quarterfinals.