The Warriors beat the Southside Express B team by a score of 13-3 at Schussler South on Thursday night.
The Warriors jumped out to an early lead--scoring 8 runs in the first two innings. The Southside Express pitchers had difficulty locating the strike zone and walked 7 batters in those innings. Tim Prendergast hammered a double into deep leftfield to break the game open with one out in the second inning. Paco Lauciello later singled home two more runs in that inning.
In the meantime, Jason Waner pitched a masterpiece. With the assistance of Coach Jim Waner calling the pitches, the father and son team held the Southside Express to just one run through four innings of play. In typical fashion, the Warriors' pitching staff struck out only 2 hitters in the entire game. Yet, the pitchers continued to throw strikes and kept the batters off balance--and the defense made the plays. Dennis Bresingham had three put outs in rightfield on hard hit balls that tailed off the bats of the righthanded hitters. Dennis has developed into a outstanding outfielder--and his hitting is coming around as well.
The Warriors put two more runs on the board in the bottom of the fifth inning on back to back doubles off the bats of Paco Lauciello and Ryan Knightly. Robbie Maxfield also singled in the inning for his second hit of the game. Robbie is now hitting an impressive .419 for the season (ranked 3rd on the squad)!
The Warriors scored three times in the bottom of the sixth inning. Tim Prendergast had two RBI in the inning on a line drive single to centerfield. Tim had four RBI on the night and now has 16 RBI for the season (ranked 3rd on the team).
Ryan Novak also had an impressive pitching performance in this one. He entered the game in the top of the fifth inning with the bases loaded and one out. He completed that inning and then pitched two more innings without allowing a run.
The Warriors wish Tim Carroll a happy 14th birthday! The team celebrated Tim's birthday in leftfield after the game. Tim currently leads the Warriors in on-base % (.639) and has performed flawlessly throughout the season defensively.
Tim Carroll (Photo courtesy of Ann Bresingham)
WARRIORS: 13 runs, 7 hits, 1 error, 6 left on base
SSE B: 3 runs, 6 hits, 2 errors, 8 left on base
