Seneca Valley's postseason baseball run has been more than remarkable.

It's bearing down on history.

With their 8-0 win over DuBois Area on Thursday, the Raiders secured their sixth postseason victory of the year. That matches their six regular season wins.

That's not just amazing. It may be unprecedented.

In the annals of PIAA team sports, one must wonder if a team has ever won as many playoff games as regular season games in the same year.

Football teams have made their respective district playoffs with two or three wins before. It's highly unlikely those teams would have won two or three playoff games, however.

The same can be said for basketball.

Teams have snuck into the postseason with five, six or seven wins.

But going on a five to seven-game winning streak in the playoffs would mean winning a district championship and then some.

Again, it's doubtful that has happened.

What Seneca Valley is doing this season just doesn't happen.

In baseball, to even make the WPIAL playoffs with a 6-11 record is crazy.

Every other Quad A playoff team in the WPIAL won at least 12 regular season games this year — twice as many as the Raiders. Only one other team in the entire WPIAL — Uniontown at 8-9 in Class AAA — reached postseason play with a losing record.

In WPIAL softball, every team in the playoffs this year had a winning record.

Seneca Valley has already become the first team to reach four consecutive WPIAL baseball title games. It is believed to be the first team to ever capture a WPIAL crown with a sub-.500 record.

To embark upon a postseason run like Seneca Valley has done, some breaks obviously have to go your way.

Getting Connor Coward back for the playoffs has been more than a slight factor in the Raiders' success. SV's senior ace right-hander posted three wins in the WPIAL Tournament after missing the regular season with a bad back.

Coward did not start on the mound for his team's first state tournament game, but Alex Hajduk pitched effectively and took advantage of spacious Kelly Automotive Park to post a 4-2 victory.

Moon drilled a couple of long fly-outs that would have been home runs in virtually any other high school park.

As Moon coach Dom Santeufemio said afterward, “the breaks just didn't go our way.”

And he was right.

He also suggested the WPIAL should consider a best two out of three format for its baseball championship games. That way, a team would have to win the championship, “not just one player.”

And he was wrong.

Under the current format, the WPIAL allotts plenty of time between its baseball semifinals and title games. All teams in the championship games are able to start their ace pitchers.

Even if a pitcher does dominate, he still needs solid defense behind him and a few runs scored for him to win.

Make no mistake, baseball is a team game. And SV is enjoying a run like none before it.

John Enrietto is sports editor of the Butler Eagle