Warriors complete regular season sweep of Blue Streaks, 5-3

The Manheim Township Blue Streaks visited Warwick to face the Warriors on Monday afternoon as the final week of the regular season kicked off with the Blue Streaks’ final Section I matchup of 2022. Warwick got the better of Township in a 10-5 victory in Neffsville a few weeks back.

After falling behind early in their previous meeting against Warwick, Township was quick to get on the board in this one. Starting pitcher and leadoff man JT Weaver walked on four pitches to get things going early. Weaver would steal 2nd (to tie the single-season stolen base record at 23) during Ryan Flury’s 4-pitch walk two batters later before Fisher Druck gave the Blue Streaks the lead on an RBI-single to right field. Courtesy running for Flury, Cole Stoltzfus would score from third on a Ben Shenosky SAC bunt in the very next at-bat to give MT a 2-0 lead after the first half inning.

Weaver surrendered a leadoff single to Woolley and a walk to Seibert in the bottom of the 1st, but the Warriors could not immediately respond to the 2-0 deficit. A 1-2-3 inning for the bottom of Township’s lineup in the 2nd put Warwick batters back at the plate quickly. Slogik and Adomnik paired up on a single and double that cut the Blue Streaks’ lead in half with only 1 out in the bottom of the 2nd, 2-1 MT. A fielding error on a fly ball in the next at-bat allowed another Warriors run to cross home plate and tie us at 2-2 through 2.

A single for Michael Heckman was the only offense for either team in the 3rd before Warwick took their first lead of the day on a leadoff homerun for Slogik in the bottom of the 4th. A single and consecutive HBP for the Warriors had them threatening to widen the lead, but Weaver held strong and sent the 3-2 score into the 5th. In the 5th, Warwick extend their lead with an RBI-single for Martin that plated Seibert and Slogik who reached base earlier in the half inning. Trailing 5-2, Township had to find some answers fast.

Heckman walked to start the top of the 6th, stole 2nd, advanced to 3rd and scored after consecutive ground outs to shrink the lead to 5-3 Warwick, but the score wouldn’t get any closer. Tyler Mulholland doubled in the top of the 7th off of relief pitcher Seibert, but the next two batters couldn’t get him home. Weaver was tagged with the loss after 4 IP, 5 H, 2 R, 4 K.

With one game remaining on the calendar in the regular season for the Blue Streaks, the Manheim Central Barons will visit Westfield Insurance Park on Tuesday (5/10) afternoon for a 4:15 PM start. Come out early to see our seniors honor their favorite MT educator pregame.