Baseball: Garden Spot vs. Cocalico (5-2-24)

#5 Cocalico won convincingly in the 1st round of the 3A District 3 ⚽️ Playoffs… beating #12 Eastern York 5-0! Timmy Hambright scored first for the Eagles in the 6th minute & scored again in the 36th minute to give him 2 of Cocalico’s 5 goals! Talen Popolis (13 goals: team lead) had 2 as well for the Eagles! Eli Barry added to the scoring just a minute into the 2nd half! This is the most goals in a single game by Cocalico this season!

🔹#5 Cocalico advanced to the 3A Quarterfinals on Thursday, October 24 to face #4 Shippensburg on the road!

Lancaster waited until late in the game to pounce on Hagerstown, scoring all 5 runs in the 7th inning, thanks to a 3 run homer from Mason Martin (12th of the season)! Stormers beat the Flying Boxcars 5-2, Adam Wibert got the Win... Stephen Nogosek earned the save!

-- Tune in Wednesday Night at 6:40pm for Game #2 between Hagerstown & Lancaster!

The "Backyard Brawl" lived up to the rivalry & tension, as Ephrata went up 1-0 after Game 1... but Cocalico came storming back to win the next 3 games! Eagles take round 1 between the Section 2 foes... 3-1! Yohanis Hildebrand had 22 kills for Cocalico; Owen Weaver had 24 for Ephrata!

-- Pencil in Round 2 between Cocalico & Ephrata for Tuesday, May 9... last game of the regular season!

Lancaster Barnstormers ran their win streak to 4 in a row after they knocked off Lexington in the series opener… 9-5! Stormers remained hott in June at the plate & on the mound!

▪️Nile Ball: Win, 6 IP, 1 ER, 5 K

🔹Kelly Dugan: 2 HR’s w/4 RBI