JV's Shut Out Hermon 9-0

The John Bapst JV baseball team hosted the Hermon Hawks on Wednesday at Husson
University's Winkin Field, coming away with an impressive 9-0 win, improving
their record to 12-2-1.

Evan Pelkey (3 innings) and Josh Storgaard (4 innings)combined efforts to shut
out the Hawks, throwing just 80 pitches and allowing only 4 hits and just 2 walks and with two strikeouts. The boys' defense played a remarkable
game, recording four 1-2-3 innings. 14 of the game's 21 outs were recorded via
ground balls, with a commendable performance by 2nd baseman Lucas Wardell, who
fielded a ball that pulled the first baseman off the base, beating the Hermon
runner to the bag, followed by a diving stab of a Hermon line drive. In all
Lucas was involved in 7 outs, and the team as a whole had an errorless game.

On the offensive side, Bapst did all of its damage in two innings, scoring 6
runs in the 3rd inning and 3 runs in the 6th. In the 3rd inning, Dan Davis led
off with a single, Kyle Somers walked, Shawn Curran was hit by a pitch. Evan
Pelkey walked, Andrew Catlin reached via an error, Lucas Wardell reached base
via a fielder's choice and recorded an RBI, then Deven Romain drove in a couple
of runs with a 2 out single.

In the 7th, Kurt Massey singled, advanced on an error and scored on a passed
ball. Josh Baker singled, stole a base, advanced on a passed ball and scored on
an RBI single by Shawn Curran, who also stole a base and advanced on yet another
passed ball. Nolan Webber walked, and Josh Storgaard reached on an error that
scored Shawn.

Defensively, this was probably the best game the boys have had all year, and the
pitching contibuted to that effort, with only 6 balls leaving the infield, 2 of
which were fly-outs.

The next game is scheduled for Thursday June 3rd at 4:30 at Winkin Field
(weather permitting).