Huntingdon Valley Advances to Tourney Semi Finals With 16-4 Victory Over Roslyn

Huntingdon Valley (HV) reached the Southampton Semi Finals with a hard fought victory over Roslyn 16-4. With the victory HV will advance to the Semi Finals of the Southampton Tournament with still one game remaining in the first round. HV will be playing Plumstead tomorrow to see who will be the overall number 1 seed in the tournament as both are 2-0.

HV received great pitching from Bryce Horn (3 IP, 2K's) and the ever improving Nicky Brady (3 IP, 5 K's). HV was down as many as 3 runs early only to take control of the game in the bottom of the 3rd inning when they posted 5 runs. HV really put the game out of reach when they pounded out 9 runs in the 4th inning to take a 16-4 lead which ended up being the final score.

In the top of the first Roslyn scored 3 times to take a 3-0 lead. HV went right to work when they scored 2 times to cut the lead to 3-2. Jordan Leiber (1 for 2, 3 runs scored) walked and came around to score on a single off the bat of Horn (2 for 3, 3 runs scored, 2 RBI's). Horn scored the second run of the inning when he stole home.

The 2nd inning Roslyn scored 1 run to take a 4-2 lead. HV went scoreless in the bottom of the inning when they had 2 runs thrown out at home plate on the same play when the knucklehead Coach sent them.

The 3rd inning Horn settled down and retired Roslyn in order. The bottom of the inning was a good one for HV when they scored 5 times to take a 7-4 lead. With one out Leiber singled which was followed by a Harrison Roesser ( 1 for 2, 2 runs scored, 2 RBI's) and Horn walk to load the bases. Connor Killion (2 for 2, 2 runs scored) walked in the first run of the inning which was followed by a Brady (2 for 3, 2 runs scored) single which scored another run. Brock Landes (1 for 3) joined the party with a RBI single which was followed by a Justin Azran (2 for 2) RBI single.

The 4th inning HV sent Brady to hill. Roslyn loaded the bases only to have Brady strikeout the the lead off hitter to end the inning. HV put the game way out of reach in the bottom of the inning when they scored 9 times to take a 16-4 lead. RBI hits by Matt Acker (1 for 3), Roesser, Horn, and Killion contributed to the scoring.

The 5th inning Brady set Roslyn down quick. The bottom of the inning HV received singles from Killion and Brady but didnt score any runs.

In the 6th inning Roslyn loaded the bases only to have Brady set them down to end the game.

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

Acker 3 1 1 1 1
Leiber 2 3 1 0 2
Roesser 2 2 1 2 2
Horn 3 3 2 2 1
Killion 2 2 2 1 2
Brady 3 2 2 1 1
Landes 3 0 1 1 1
Azran 2 1 2 0 1
Armentani 1 0 0 0 0
Glasgow 1 1 0 0 1
Tang 2 0 0 0 0
Ginsberg 1 0 0 0 1
Powitski 1 1 1 0 0