CLICK HERE for team and player statistics through Game #30.
After playing its worst game of the season, the Warriors bounced back with an impressive 10-2 win over the Oak Lawn Westside Warriors in the second game of the Palos Rumble tournament on Friday night to keep its tournament hopes alive.
The Warriors jumped out to an early lead after scoring five runs in the top of the first inning. Robbie Maxfield and Jason Waner reached base on singles before Paco Lauciello hammered a homerun deep over the rightfield wall. This was Paco's second homer in as many nights. After Lance Cardinal reached base, Tim Prendergast pounded a homer over the leftfield fence to score another two runs.
Ryan Novak was the Warriors' starting pitcher. He allowed just one base runner over his first three innings of work. Oak Lawn Westside loaded the bases in the fourth inning, but Ryan got the last hitter to fly out to leftfield to complete his four innings of shutout baseball.
The Warriors added a run in the top of the fifth inning when Paco Lauciello singled to leftfield and scored on Lance Cardinal's line drive single to leftfield. This was Lance's 28th RBI of the season--ranked 2nd on the Warriors.
Jason Waner entered the game in relief for the Warriors with two runners on base in the fifth inning. He quickly retired the side. However, Oak Lawn Westside scored two runs in the bottom of the sixth inning on a homerun over the leftfield wall. The inning ended when Ryan Tannebaum threw a runner out attempting to advance to third from his centerfield position.
The Warriors scored three more runs in the top of the seventh inning despite consecutive coaching blunders. Oak Lawn Westside failed to score in the bottom of the frame as the Warriors held on to win this one by a score of 10-2.
