When it’s postseason time, Broomfield senior Maverick Scarpella has proven more than ready.

As a linebacker for his school’s state champion football team in the fall, he brought back a fumble for a score in the Class 4A semifinals, before tacking on a career-high 13 tackles in a comeback win in the title game over Montrose.

Then last weekend, in his team’s regional baseball championship game, he came up big again, tossing a seven-inning, 12-strikeout, no-hitter to move the Eagles into 5A’s eight-team, double-elimination tournament, which starts Friday.

“Something just switches in my brain,” Scarpella said of the playoffs. “When it’s go-time, it’s go-time.”

No. 5 Broomfield vs. No. 4 Fossil Ridge, noon Friday at All-Star Park

Why Broomfield can advance: You could argue that nobody in 5A’s final eight is quite as hot as the Eagles (22-3), who have won 14 straight, which included outscoring Fort Collins and Cherokee Trail a combined 18-1 in their regional tournament last weekend.

Their pitching staff is among the best in the state, touting a miniscule 1.88 ERA. And out front, Scarpella (1.58 ERA in 44 1/3 innings pitched) and BYU commit Ethan Zufall (1.81 in 38 2/3) are one of Colorado’s best duos.

Scarpella’s no-hitter Saturday came right after Zufall allowed just one run in a six-inning regional win over the Lambkins. Scarpella hasn’t allowed an earned run in his past three starts, while Zufall has given up just two over his past 17 innings.

“When he throws good, it pushes me to do the same. And when I throw good, it pushes him to do the same,” Scarpella, committed to play at Indian Hills (Iowa) Community College next season, said. “We work off each other really well. And the rest of our pitching staff is the exact same way. If I went just six innings in that (no-hitter), I guarantee you that we have five, six other dudes out of the bullpen who would have come in and got the job done.”

If pitching continues to be this good for the Eagles moving forward — and their explosive offense does what they have this spring, and especially of this month, where they’re averaging 12 runs per game — they’re as tough of an out as anybody.

Leading the offense, senior catcher Brendan Fritch, committed to Division-I Davidson College in North Carolina, is hitting .583, the 145th-best average in the nation this spring. He comes into this weekend with multiple hits in each of his past six games.

Another upperclassmen to watch: Senior outfielder Caden Williamson is hitting .430 with 37 RBIs and five home runs. He homered in consecutive games coming into the regional final Saturday and has driven in three or more runs in three of his past five.

X-factor: Sophomore infielder Jackson Shepherd’s batting average (.413), slugging (.587) and RBIs (20) are top-10 among 5A sophomores in Colorado.

Biggest obstacles for Broomfield: A bit of a bail-out answer, but the rest of the field is the right answer to this question. It is loaded.

This year’s 5A regional tournament didn’t offer the same kind of upsets we saw a year ago. The top six seeds in the classification coming into last weekend all advanced, including No. 1 Grandview, and the only team that has beaten the Wolves in more than a month, defending champ No. 2 Cherry Creek.

On Day 1, the Eagles will meet up with former Front Range Leaguer Fossil Ridge for the first time this season. And while the SaberCats (20-5) haven’t put up as good of numbers as Broomfield on the mound, where their team ERA is 3.02, few offenses have been as potent, hitting .403 as a team.

If Broomfield wins in Round 1, it’ll face the winner of Grandview and No. 8 Castle View at 2:30 p.m. Friday. If the Eagles lose Game 1, they’ll be pushed into the elimination bracket for Saturday.

The 5A champion will be decided May 31.