Falcon Senior Connie Mack wraps up season
The Salisbury Senior Connie Mack baseball team finished its regular season in the Lehigh Valley League last week with three games, all at home, winning one and losing two.
The Falcons opened the final week with a 5-0 victory against Moore Township on Monday, July 7. Two days later they were shutout, losing 15-0 in four innings to Nazareth. On Friday, Salisbury fell 10-2 against Palmer Township.
In the win over the Redhawks, Salisbury scored two runs in the bottom of the first and fourth innings and added another in the fifth. Tanner Kuder provided the game’s first run on an RBI groundout and then Cooper Dickert recorded a run-scoring single to give his team a 2-0 lead.
In the fourth, Fenway Bellew tallied an RBI on a groundout and then Brady Brinker had an RBI single. The final run of the game in the fifth inning came on an RBI sacrifice fly by Collin Moll.
The Falcons finished with eight hits, two each from Dickert and Tallon Liggit and one from Logan Kao, Brinker, Hunter Kotarski and Moll.
Kotarski threw a complete game, striking out four and allowing just four hits for the win.
Against the Blue Eagles, Nazareth started off fast with six runs in the top of the first and then added one in the second, two in the third and six more in the fourth. They outhit Salisbury 11-2. Kao and Kuder had the two hits for the Falcons.
In the game with Palmer, Salisbury fell behind 10-0 in the sixth after giving up one in the third and fifth innings, three in the fourth and five in the sixth. The Falcons got on the scoreboard with a run in the bottom of the sixth inning on an RBI double by Liam Christman and tacked on another run in the seventh coming on a sacrifice fly by Dickert. Moll led the lineup with two hits and Kao, Kuder, Liggit, Dickert, Christman and Levi Quiles all had one hit.
Salisbury finished the regular season 2-13 overall in the Lehigh Valley League.