North Broward Prep Begins State Title Defense With District Title

With every season that Brian Campbell has been the manager at North Broward Prep, there has been the consistency of what his squads look like throughout the year.

Like clockwork, the season plays out like a well-rehearsed play. 2025 is no different.

Schedule high quality opponents. Check.

Lose some early-season games due to that schedule. Check. (The Eagles started 3-2)

Round in to form around mid-season. Check.

Which brings us to, begin their playoff run with a district title. Check.

NBP won their fifth straight district title on Thursday night, defeating American Heritage-Delray 2-1, in a hard-fought, well-pitched, championship game.

“American Heritage has been playing well, and they are well-coached,” said Campbell. “I’m really proud of my team, especially the pitching staff with Rostock, Baldassarri, and O’Neill. Heritage’s staff did a great job, but we were able to get the timely hit to win.”

That timely hit came off the bat of junior Adrian Rodriguez, who doubled to right-field, bringing in the Eagles two runs on the night.

The aforementioned Rostock, Baldassarri, and O’Neill made sure those two runs were enough to hold up.

Rostock started the game, and went five innings, allowing only two hits, while striking out nine Stallions.

Baldassarri took over in the sixth and worked around a lead-off walk by getting a double play and a ground out.

In the seventh, Heritage-Delray mounted their biggest threat of the game, when Nico Bellantoni was hit by a pitch to lead off the inning, and Alex Zhao doubled, putting runners on second and third.

A groundout scored Bellantoni.

Dylan Ober the appeared to tie the game with a sacrifice fly, but the runner was called out on appeal, and the Eagles had secured the district title.

The win was the 13th in the past 14 games for NBP, and as they have in previous state title years, they now enter regional play with a ton of momentum and confidence. Despite that, Campbell understands that there is no room for error starting next week.

“Obviously, everything gets harder now in regionals, and we are looking forward to the challenge.”

The Eagles will be one of the favorites in Class 3A, and there is a chance them and Heritage could meet again down the road.

The Stallions will also head into regional play with their 15-11 record, and showed on Thursday evening that they will not be an easy out for anyone come regional play.

The final rankinghs for the 2025 season will be out on Friday, which will determine the regional quarterfinal match-ups that start on Monday.

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