Back and forth Section 1 duel with McCaskey ends in Township victory

The Manheim Township Blue Streaks and J.P. McCaskey Red Tornado met at Westfield Insurance Park on Friday afternoon to close out the first round of Section I games in 2023.

Results

Team1234567RHE
J.P. McCaskey30210006101
Manheim Township222300X952

Nick Tomlinson, Township’s typical starting catcher, made his first appearance on the mound in his Varsity career as he got the nod in this one. McCaskey capitalized on a leadoff walk as a single from Fluck and double from Rodriguez brought the leadoff runner home with only 1 out. A wild pitch in the next AB made it 2-0 and a SAC fly before the end of the first half inning put McCaskey up 3-0 early.

Back-to-back singles from Ty Jenkins and Tyler Mulholland put Township runners at 1st and 3rd. A Ryan Brader SAC fly to center field scored Jenkins before a Cole Stoltzfus SAC fly scored Mulholland. Trailing 3-2, Tomlinson worked a cleaner 2nd inning to quiet the Red Tornado offense.

Walks to Gavin Glass, Jenkins and Mulholland in the 2nd loaded the bases before Brader gave the Blue Streaks their first lead with a liner up the middle where two runners scored. A Red Tornado 2-run homerun in the top of the 3rd off Township reliever Traeton Sauder gave McCaskey the lead again 5-4. Sauder managed to escape the inning with the Blue Streaks still only trailing by 1.

A leadoff HBP on Stoltzfus got things going for Township in the bottom half of the 3rd. On a Sauder bunt, an overthrow to 1st base by the McCaskey catcher brought Stoltzfus home from 2nd and sent Sauder all the way to 3rd. A single off the bat of Glass during the next at-bat put MT back in front 6-5. After a leadoff triple for Ortiz put the Red Tornado in business again in the 4th, a line drive to left center from Fluck once again tied us up – now 6-6.

The Blue Streaks broke through again in the bottom of the 4th using two walks and a HBP to load the bases. A wild pitch during Glass’ at-bat scored Brader from 3rd and Glass picked up two more RBIs on a double to the gap in left-center to give MT a 9-6 lead. McCaskey would be held in check over the final 3 innings with Sauder on the mound and the Blue Streaks held on for the win with the final of 9-6.

The Blue Streaks are on the road all three games next week starting with an away matchup at Penn Manor on Monday afternoon at 4:15pm.

J.P. McCaskey

Position AB PA R H RBI 2B 3B HR SF SB BB SO HBP
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Position W L APP GS SV IP H R ER K BB
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Manheim Township

# Batting Position AB PA R H RBI 2B 3B HR SF SB BB SO HBP
1Ty JenkinsCF3421000000100
3Lance LeidigPR0000000000000
4Tyler Mulholland1B2411000000210
5Gavin Glass3B2312310001100
6Cole StoltzfusRF1420100010111
10Andrew FluryC0100000000100
16Nicholas TomlinsonP1100000000000
17Josh Boll2B2300000000110
19Ryan PeipherDH2200000000010
22Ben ConnorsLF3400000000100
28Ryan BraderSS2411300012100
29Traeton SauderP2320000000001
 Total 203395710023942
Pitching Position W L APP GS SV IP H R ER K BB
Nicholas TomlinsonP00110233333
Traeton SauderP10100573361
Total 102107106694

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