Inconsistency has been the early calling card for the North Parkland offense.

The Buffaloes dropped their first three Lehigh Valley Legion games by a combined score of 27-3. In a two-game sample, the Buffs went 2-0 and scored 22 runs only to score a total of four runs in their next two games.

Last week, North Parkland lost to South Parkland 6-3 and then came back the next day and downed Whitehall-Coplay 11-4.

Against the Zephyrs, the Buffaloes put together a seven-run fourth inning and used some small ball to do it.

Peyton Scherff and Steven Sepko both delivered two-run singles in the inning. Nate Unger, Sean Fallon, and Zach Smith each delivered one-run singles to account for the seven runs.

The two teams were scoreless early, but Whitehall broke through for two runs in the top of the third against Jared Santilli.

In the bottom of the inning, Parkland came back with three runs of their own to go up 3-2. With a runner on first and one out, Tsubasa Magota stole second and on the next pitch moved to third on a ground ball by Scherff.

Magota raced home on a wild pitch Sepko hit a hard single to left that brought in Unger and when the ball was misplayed, Fallon, who had singled earlier in the inning, also scored to give North Parkland their first lead of the game.

After Whitehall again put up two runs in the fourth, North Parkland responded with its seven runs, taking a 10-4 lead. In the bottom of the fifth, a two-out double by Scherff followed by an RBI single from Unger finished the scoring with the Buffaloes up 11-4. Jordan Kuhns had three singles and a double in a perfect 4-4 day for North Parkland.

Scherff, who came on in relief of Santilli with two outs in the fourth, pitched 3 1/3 innings and allowed just one hit and one walk while keeping Whitehall-Coplay off the board the rest of the way.

The win puts the Buffaloes at 3-4 in Lehigh Valley Legion play and 3-6 overall.