Falcons produce 28 runs over 11 innings
The hits just keep on coming for the Salisbury baseball team.
The Falcons’ bats have become hot as they have delivered 29 hits over 11 innings, leading to 28 runs and two wins in two games over the past week.
The Falcons have now won three straight games and are tied with Saucon Valley atop the South Division of the Colonial League.
A pair of seniors, Caleb Gonzalez and Josh Holler, have led the barrage over the past week with Holler hitting .800 (4-5) and Gonzalez batting .714 (5-7) with six runs scored and four runs driven in for the Falcons.
Holler scored four runs in the two-game span. Markus Jones hit .571 (4-7), while Nate Nunez and Austin Spisszak have both hit .500 (4-8) and Nunez has collected five runs scored and six RBI.
As a team the Falcons hit .460 (29-63) in the two games.
The Falcons needed just four innings to dispose of Moravian Academy in a 16-1 ambush as Gonzalez and Jones both picked up four hits and Nunez scored four times. The game was called after four innings because of the mercy rule.
Against Bangor, Holler went 3-for-3. Gonzalez and Holler both scoring four runs in a 12-7 win. Owen Fogel hit the first home run of the season for Salisbury.
On the mound, Josiah Kuhns made his first appearance of the season against Moravian and threw all four innings, allowing no earned runs and striking out nine batters along the way.
The Slaters got to Spisszak for five earned runs in 5 1/3 innings before Fogel came in to shut the door the rest of the way for Salisbury.
In the 11 innings that Salisbury (6-1 Colonial, 7-1 overall) played last week the team committed just one error.
As a team, the Falcons have a .913 fielding percentage this season with 16 errors in eight games. Five of those errors came on the rough terrain at Dieruff High School in the second game of the season.
The week also included a pair of rain outs against Allen and Southern Lehigh. The game against the Spartans (4-2, 4-3) will be made up today ahead of a game at Catasauqua (0-6, 0-6) tomorrow.
The Falcons have a pair of tough games coming up as they face Saucon Valley (6-1, 6-1) Saturday at home and on Monday, the Falcons travel to Northwestern Lehigh (6-1, 7-1).