Emmaus Connie Mack falls to Nazareth, beats Wilson
The Emmaus Senior Connie Mack team split a pair of lopsided games on the road last week, winning its latest one to halt a four-game losing streak.
Last Saturday afternoon, the Hornets lost to second-place Nazareth 15-1, but responded two days later by turning the tables with a 15-1 victory in five innings at the Wilson Warriors.
In the game at the Blue Eagles, Emmaus was actually no-hit, but scored the game’s first run in the top of the first inning as Henry Pina Thevenint, who led off the game with a walk, one of two on the day for him, scored from third base on a wild pitch.
But Nazareth responded in a big way, bringing home six runs in the bottom-half of the inning and then adding three in the second, one in the third and five in the fourth inning. The Blue Eagles used three different pitchers to combine for the no-hitter and recorded nine strikeouts. The Emmaus defense committed six errors.
The Hornets got that bad taste out of their mouth in the next game and wasted little time in doing so as they tallied four runs in the top of the first inning and then added five in the second, one in the third and five in the fourth against Wilson.
Liam Iannetta drew a bases-loaded walk for the game’s first run and then a fielder’s choice that was added on to by a throwing error brought in three more runs in the first. In the second, Sam Fleetwood stole home. Bases loaded walks to Geovany Ray and Brayden Heller recorded two more runs and the big blow came via a two-run double by Braiden Marshall.
In the third, Fleetwood again stole home and in the fourth inning, run-scoring singles by Heller and Alex Seagraves preceded a two-run double from Owen Herrity to round out the scoring.
Iannetta finished with two hits, an RBI and scored three runs. Herrity, Marshall and Heller each had a hit and two RBIs and Ray tallied two RBIs. Ryley George threw all five innings and allowed just three hits and one run, while striking out nine.
Emmaus is now 2-5 overall and sits in 14th place in the Lehigh Valley League standings out of 21 teams.