Warminster and Huntingdon Valley scrapped to a 3-3 final with the Bulldogs scoring all their runs in the final two frames.
Huntingdon Valley opened the scoring in the third inning when Callan Palmer walked and Matt Meyers singled. The two were knocked in on RBI singles by Matt Lawlor and Brian Buckley.
The reason for Warminster not scoring until the sixth inning was partly due to poor base running early in the game and partly due to the pitching of Paul Buckley. Buckley was able to pitch himself out of jams for much of the game as he stranded 10 Bulldogs through out the game and six through the first five innings.
“Like I said to him in front of the whole team, today he didn’t have his best stuff,” Huntingdon Valley coach Evan Horn said. “But he guts it out.”
While Warminster suffered from its share of base running blunders early in the contest, Huntingdon Valley was also plagued with the same problem and no time more relevant than in the bottom of the sixth inning.
After Warminster scored twice in the top of the inning, Huntingdon Valley loaded the bases to start the bottom of the inning and only managed to score one run with a bases-loaded walk to Rafael Fernandez.
“It was tough, we just couldn’t execute hits and runs,” Fernandez, Huntingdon Valley’s captain, said. “When we had to execute it just didn’t work out.”
With Huntingdon Valley only managing one run in the inning, it left the door open for Warminster in the top of the seventh, and it responded when Jimmy McNally scored Kevin Devine to tie the score at three.
“It’s a tie, but when you’re scrapping you’ll take it,” Warminster coach Rick Penecale said. “Both teams played pretty well and that’s the way it ended.”
“Anytime you’re winning 2-0 in the sixth inning you expect to win the game,” Horn said. “At that point playing basically not to lose the game.”
Perhaps a tie was fitting for the two teams being this is the second tie this season for Huntingdon Valley, moving its record to 5-2-2, and the third tie for Warminster, taking its record to 1-4-3.
“I’m really happy with my team’s performance so far,” Horn said. “We’re 5-2-2, we’re probably first place in the league, a tough league.”
“In this situation we blew a two-run lead, last game we blew a [four- or five-] run lead, that’s not typical of our team. We basically are a decent ball club. We’re missing a lot of kids in the middle of the lineup.”
Box Score
WARMINSTER (3) AT HUNTINGDON VALLEY (3) WARMINSTER AB R H BI HUNTINGDON VALLEY AB R H BI Brett Kozlowski 4 0 2 1 Rafael Fernandez 2 0 0 1 Dan Hinks 4 0 0 0 Callan Palmer 3 1 1 0 Kevin Devine 4 1 1 0 Matt Meyers 4 1 1 0 Dan Ashdale 3 1 2 0 Matt Lawlor 3 0 1 1 James McNally 3 1 1 1 Brian Buckley 3 0 2 1 Brandon Tocce 3 0 1 0 Matt Hyman 1 0 0 0 Sean Hyland 1 0 0 0 Lewis Palmer 1 1 0 0 Ryan Lucas 4 0 0 1 Sean Weiss 3 0 0 0 John Felix 2 0 1 0 Jack Titus 2 0 0 0 Liam Browning 2 0 1 0 Peter Ebert 3 0 1 0 Robert Day 0 0 0 0 TOTALS 30 3 9 3 TOTALS 25 3 6 3 WARMINSTER 000 002 10 -- 3 HUNTINGDON VALLEY 002 001 0x -- 3 LOB--WARMINSTER 10, HUNTINGDON VALLEY 10. 2B--Brett Kozlowski. HBP--Dan Ashdale. SB--James McNally, Kevin Devine. WARMINSTER IP H R ER BB SO HR Ryan Lucas 5.00 6 3 3 6 4 0 Brandon Tocce 2.00 0 0 0 3 5 0 HUNTINGDON VALLEY Paul Buckley 7.00 9 3 3 3 2 0 PB--James McNally. WP--Brandon Tocce. SO--Ryan Lucas, Brandon Tocce, Matt Meyers (2), Peter Ebert, Sean Weiss (2), Matt Lawlor (2), Callan Palmer, Matt Hyman. BB--Robert Day, James McNally, John Felix, Lewis Palmer (3), Sean Weiss, Jack Titus, Matt Lawlor, Rafael Fernandez (2), Callan Palmer.
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