Saturday night on North Prince Street for game #2 with Spire City aka Frederick. Hagerstown, Maryland is slated to join the ALPB in 2024, there are those who claim that the club in Frederick is a placeholder and will be moving to Hagerstown while others are saying that Frederick is in permanently with Hagerstown joining to form a geographic rivalry. The two cities are less than thirty miles apart (much like Lancaster and York), it would be a great situation for both and on a personal level I'd like to see it happen. On this night at the ballpark the Stormers and the visiting Ghost Hounds traded single runs through five innings, the Stormers run coming in the third on Anthony Peroni's double and Melvin Mercedes' RBI single. In the sixth the Hounds put four on the board to go up 5-1, in the bottom half the Home Boys got three of them right back. Trace Loehr started the rally with a base hit, after one out Ariel Sandoval followed with a double scoring Loehr to make it 5-2. Consecutive singles by Wilson Garcia, Joseph Carpenter (RBI scoring Sandoval) and Trayvon Robinson (RBI scoring Garcia) brought the Stormers within one at 5-4. In the seventh Mercedes drew a one-out walk and scored the tying run on Andretty Cordero's double, Sandoval followed that with an RBI hit plating Cordero putting the Stormers up 6-5. An insurance run was added in the eighth on a Carpenter double and a Peroni RBI hit, the final score was 7-5. Brandyn Sittinger won it in relief of starter Dominic DiSabatino, Andrew Lee worked out of a ninth-inning jam and picked up the save. The series finished with a Stormer win in the afternoon heat on Sunday but I was fashionably absent, with street hockey done in Rothsville until September I spent the days in the comfort of the AC at home. Take care, thanks for reading.
