It seems what happened in Myrtle Beach didn't stay in Myrtle Beach.

When the Whitehall baseball team arrived at the resort community to kickoff the 2015 season, their bats didn't exactly tear it up as they were taking a lot of strikes.

They were able to overcome that quickly, scoring 28 runs in their next three games. However, their last three league games have resulted in just three runs, losing 12-2 to Stroudsburg on April 15, 11-1 to Parkland on April 17, and 5-0 to Emmuas on Monday.

The tendency to take too many pitches has been replaced by swinging at too many pitches.

"We went from being in Myrtle where we didn't swing the bats well, to now where we're not patient," said manager Shaun O'Boyle.

Some of what plagued them offensively early has crept back in, but this time he feels they're being overly aggressive to the point where he's putting on take signs during the game, something he doesn't like to do.

"At some point, we have to be a little more patient at the plate and make the guy throw pitches," he said. "It's something we've been talking about, but again, they were swinging today."

In Monday's game that guy was Teja Venigalla. The Hornets, winners of five straight coming into the game, have relied on strong starting pitching to power them to a 6-3 record this season. Venigalla only reinforced that fact by needing only 80 pitches over seven innings to blank the Zephs, handing them their fourth loss of the season.

The loss drops them to fourth in the Skyline Division of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference.

While he was able to toss up seven goose eggs, O'Boyle said that Venigalla didn't overpower them.

"We didn't swing the bats well," said O'Boyle. "There was a lot of off-speed stuff that we were lunging at and taking lazy swings.

He said that's definitely an area they'll need to work on moving forward.

They won't have time to dwell on it either as this week they have a full slate of games beginning with Liberty High School on Wednesday. That starts their run of four games scheduled for the remainder of this week.

"We got a big week coming, so we have to shake off this one real quick," said O'Boyle.

Alex Bruneio started the game, looking for his fourth win of the season. The lefty worked out of a bases-loaded jam in the third, but wasn't able to repeat that feat in the fourth as the Green Hornets erupted for four runs.

O'Boyle said that Bruneio has a tendency to get down on himself, even though the Green Hornets weren't stinging the ball all over the park in that inning. It was a walk, a bloop hit, and a bunt that loaded the bases. It wasn't until George Smith connected for a sharp two-run single that the Hornets hit the ball with any authority against him. That hit was followed by two sacrifice flies to close out the scoring.

"He's got to work through that somehow," said O'Boyle.

O'Boyle said that they had a conversation prior to the game about not letting things get to him.

"With being a pitcher, you have to have a short memory," said O'Boyle. "If you let things get to you out there, you're going to struggle.

"When he's on, no one can touch him, but when he loses it, we get a four-run fourth inning. It's something that he needs to work on going forward, but he's young. I mean, sometimes I think we forget that he's a sophomore. We'll keep to talking to him."

The Zephs had some opportunities, but a double play following a Jake Meyers single in the bottom of the sixth was a key play for the Hornets. Earlier, Meyers had gotten to second following a walk and a Bruneio single, but that's all the farther he got as the Zephs didn't get a runner past second the entire game.

Sandwiched in between their losses to the Trojans and Green Hornets was a game against Brandywine High School. In that game, the runs came in bunches with the Zephs scoring multiple runs in four of the six innings en route to a 12-1 win.

A number of players had a big day at the dish, including Zach Hamscher, David Laky and Javy Rodriguez who each drove in two runs on the day. But it was Nicholas Delp who led the RBI brigade, driving in three runs to lead the team.

Meyers got the victory, striking out seven and walking just three for his second win of the season.