Blue Streaks stir up a Senior Night shutout under the lights against CV, 9-0

Under the lights at home for the first time this season, the Manheim Township Blue Streaks played host to the Conestoga Valley Buckskins on 2022 Senior Night. Prior to the first pitch, all seven of this season’s Senior Blue Streaks were honored alongside their families for all that they have contributed to the baseball program at Manheim Township. Thank you Seniors!

After using only 15 pitches last night to pick up the save at Lampeter-Strasburg, JT Weaver was back on the mound to start this one for Township. Surrendering only a walk to the Buckskins in the 1st, Weaver set the tone early picking up two of his 11 strikeouts on the night in the inning. On offense, walks to Weaver, Michael Heckman, and Fisher Druck loaded the bases for the Blue Streaks with only 1 out in the bottom 1st. An RBI-walk to Ryan Brader put the first Township run on the board before Ben Shenosky roped a line drive to right field that plated a 2nd run. 2-0 MT after 1. 

This game sped up in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th innings as neither offense could make anything happen at the plate. Weaver continued to mow through the CV offense collecting 5 more Ks in those three innings. In the bottom of the 5th, Township finally stirred up some magic at the plate after a few silent innings. A single from Druck, walk to Brader, and CV error on a Shenosky sacrifice ground ball loaded the bases for MT early in the inning. Ty Jenkins sent a line drive up the middle to score Druck and Brader and double the Blue Streak lead, 4-0. An RBI-bunt single from Tyler Mulholland and bunt ground out off the bat of Jack Armstrong plated two more Township runs in no time at all. Mulholland scored on a wild pitch during Weaver’s next AB before JT sent a double to the fence in left-center. Heckman needed to see only one pitch to drive home Weaver from 2nd with a single and Heckman scored one batter later after Ryan Flury drilled a triple off the fence in left field. Now 9-0, Senior Night had turned into a major success for the Blue Streaks.

Weaver’s night was finished after completing the 6th inning (6 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 11 K) and Cole Stoltzfus was tasked with recording the final 3 outs. The Junior righty used 20 pitches in the top of the 7th and picked up 2 strikeouts in nabbing the 3 outs the Blue Streaks needed. The victory was Township’s 10th on the season and the Varsity Streaks now sit at 10-2 overall.

One more game to finish up this week as Varsity will travel to Solanco to face the Golden Mules at 4:15pm.