During the regular season, Ryan Kelly and John Hlywiak get things done for the Hatboro-Horsham Hatters’ baseball team. And now, with the summer league legion season in full swing, the two are doing it yet again for Horsham.
Kelly and Hlywiak combined to pitch seven innings, allowing just one earned run while striking out seven batters to help lift Horsham to a 6-4 win over host Huntingdon Valley in a Lower Montco American Legion League game at Lower Moreland High School on Tuesday evening.
Kelly tossed five innings of four-hit ball, allowing two runs – one earned – while striking out six to earn the win. Hkywiak came in and tossed two innings, allowing one hit and two unearned runs to pick up the save. And if that wasn’t enough, Kelly added a double and an RBI triple at the plate, while Hlywiak hit an RBI triple.
“We got early, timely hitting,” Horsham coach Bill DeBoer said. “We got some big hits and we got a good effort from Kelly on the mound. He was a little bit touchy early, but once he found his groove, he was throwing strikes and that’s all we ask right now. He had good velocity and then John came in and beat them with some off-speed stuff.”
The win for Horsham (2-1) marked the first time that any team was able to get past Valley (4-1-1), which entered the contest unbeaten in five previous games.
“They’re a good team,” DeBoer said of Valley. “They’re a real good team and they’re not undefeated for no reason. We knew we needed to come in and execute and that’s what we did. We made a couple of mistakes which I attribute to a crappy field as far as hops and the sun goes, but they’re a tough team. “
Horsham got the scoring started in the second inning when Eric Thomas hit an RBI fielder’s choice to score Kelly, who led the inning off with a double. In the third, Horsham had five runners cross the plate, with the highlights being an RBI single by Kelly, Hlywiak’s RBI triple and a two-out, two-strike, two-run single by Thomas.
“Today, we came out kind of sluggish and when you go down six runs to a good team in a game with wood bats, it’s kind of hard to get back into the game,” Valley coach Evan Horn said. “We did battle well, though, but Horsham is a good team.”
Valley did get four runs back in the bottom half of the sixth inning, with three of those runs being unearned after a trio of errors by the Horsham defense. Pitcher Jordan Procrass led the inning off with a home run over the left field fence and later in the inning, Jack Titus, Nick Cerruti and Matt Hyman would all score runs thanks to errors in the infield.
Procrass, who took the loss after allowing five earned runs in three innings of work, led Valley while going 2-for-4 with the home run. Matt Meyers went 2-for-3 with a double, while Rafael Fernandez added an RBI and a lead-off single.
“With this group of kids, there is no problem at all with bouncing back from this loss,” Horn said. “I’m very confident that come Sunday in our doubleheader against Southampton, we’ll be ready to play. We have a great middle of the lineup and I think the best 2-3-4 in the league. We have Raf (Fernandez) leading off, Callan Palmer is a Penn State Abington guy and I think that Matt (Meyers) is the best hitter in the league and there’s no question about it. We’re a tough lineup to beat, but they (Horsham) beat us.”
Horsham, which was the subject of a rained out game on Monday night, was led offensively by Kelly, who went 2-for-3 with two runs. Hlywiak finished 1-for-3 with two walks, one run and one RBI, while lead-off hitter Tom Rosenbaum went 2-for-4 with one run scored. Fisher went 1-for-2 with two RBI.
“We had some quality at bats earlier in the game and I expect us to battle with every team,” DeBoer said. “All of the games in this league should be 1-2 run games. As long as you’re throwing strikes in this league, you should be making the plays defensively.”
HORSHAM (6) AT HUNTINGDON VALLEY (4) HORSHAM AB R H BI HUNTINGDON VALLEY AB R H BI Thomas Rosenbaum 4 1 2 0 Rafael Fernandez 4 0 2 1 Adam Arcadia 2 1 0 0 Callan Palmer 4 0 0 0 Austin Anderson 0 0 0 0 Matt Meyers 3 0 3 2 Joseph Simmons 4 0 0 0 Brian Buckley 3 0 0 0 Grant Opalisky 3 0 0 0 Jordan Pocrass 4 1 2 1 Matthew Redican 1 0 0 0 Lewis Palmer 1 0 0 0 Ryan Kelly 3 2 1 1 Jack Titus 1 1 0 0 John Hlywiak 1 1 1 1 Nick Cerruti 3 1 0 0 Eric Thomas 2 1 0 1 Lance Goodnan 2 0 0 0 Thomas Fisher 2 0 0 2 Matt Hyman 2 1 0 0 Alex Kleidon 1 0 0 0 Eric Lane 2 0 0 0 Brad Humski 1 0 0 0 TOTALS 26 6 4 5 TOTALS 27 4 7 4 HORSHAM 015 000 0 -- 6 HUNTINGDON VALLEY 000 004 0 -- 4 LOB--HORSHAM 4, HUNTINGDON VALLEY 11. ERR--Nick Cerruti, Jordan Pocrass, Brian Buckley. 2B--Ryan Kelly, Matt Meyers. 3B--John Hlywiak. HR--Jordan Pocrass. SB--Eric Thomas, Thomas Fisher, Thomas Rosenbaum (3), Adam Arcadia, Lewis Palmer. HORSHAM IP H R ER BB SO HR Ryan Kelly (W) 6.00 6 4 4 8 6 1 John Hlywiak (S) 1.00 1 0 0 1 1 0 HUNTINGDON VALLEY Jordan Pocrass (L) 3.00 4 6 2 3 6 0 Nick Cerruti 4.00 0 0 0 2 2 0 PB--Eric Thomas. WP--Jordan Pocrass (2). SO--Thomas Fisher, Joseph Simmons, Adam Arcadia (2), Alex Kleidon, Grant Opalisky, Eric Lane (2), Nick Cerruti, Lewis Palmer, Lance Goodnan, Jordan Pocrass (2), Rafael Fernandez, Callan Palmer. BB--Eric Thomas, John Hlywiak (2), Adam Arcadia, Austin Anderson, Matt Meyers, Nick Cerruti, Lewis Palmer (3), Jack Titus (3), Brian Buckley.
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