Strong Pitching From Horn and Brady Not Enough in 5-3 Loss to Pennsbury

After 2 staight games in which Huntingdon Valley (HV) looked as if it was going to be a long saeason they put it all behind them and played winning style baseball in a 5-3 loss at the hands of Pennsbury. HV recieved wonderful pitching from Bryce Horn and Nick Brady. Pennsbury looked surprised to see such an agressive HV team and almost took them to lightly. HV's rally came up a little short in the bottom of the 5th inning when they had a chance to tie or win the game.

In the top of the first inning HV struck first after recieving a leadoff single from Matt Acker followed by a single by Jordan Leiber. After a walk to Harrison Roesser HV had the bases loaded when a wild pitch scored Acker then with 2 outs Leiber was cut down at the plate on another wild pitch scoring attempt. In the bottom of the first inning Pitcher Bryce Horn (3 Innings Pitched 2 Hits allowed 7 Strikeouts and 2 Earned Runs) was in control when with 2 outs Pennsbury got a "Texas League" single to plate there only run of the inning to tie the score at 1-1

In the top of the 2nd inning HV went quick 1-2-3. In the bottom of the inning Horn continued to stay in control sitting Pennsbury down in order as well.

In the 3rd HV recieved a lead off single from Horn only to leave him at 3rd to end the inning. The bottom of 3rd inning is where Pennsbury took control of 2 walks and 2 errors from HV to take a 5-1 lead.

HV bounced back to plate a run in the top of the 4th inning when with 1 out Justin Azran walked. Catcher Brock Landes hit a one hopper to the pitcher who threw out Landes at first but great base running by Azran while attemping to go to third drew a throw from the first basemen which sailed over the head of the third basemen to plate the run. Brady entered the game in the bottom of the inning and after allowing a single he settled down and retired Pennsbury in order.

The top of the 5th inning HV had a chance to win the game but it fell short. With 2 outs Acker and Lieber both walked which was followed by a run scoring single off the bat of Roesser. The rally was cut short and that was all that HV could come up with. In the bottom of the inning Pennsbury went down in order.

In the 6th inning HV was set down in order to end the game. HV put up a great fight against a playoff team but just came up a little short. HV looks to win its first game of the season on sunday when they go on the road against Warwick.

Box Score
AB-Runs-Hits-Rbi's-Walks

Acker 2 2 1 0 1
Leiber 2 0 1 0 1
Rosser 2 0 1 1 1
Killion 3 0 0 0 0
Azran 2 1 0 0 0
Landes 2 0 0 1 1
Ginsberg 2 0 0 1 1
Tang 2 0 0 0 0
Brady 2 0 0 0 0
Horn 2 0 1 0 0