Mounts advance to Semifinals
- 17 May 2010
This was sort of a run-manufacturing seminar, with the Section Two champion Mounts (15-6) just a bit more effective.Neither team solved the pitchers, Jayson Frymyer and Dusten Rutt for Ephrata and Pequea's Tyler Schmitt. They combined for seven hits, just two by the Mounts off Schmitt.
Ephrata got a first-inning run on a walk, a hit batsman and an RBI grounder, and led 1-0 through four innings without a hit.
Pequea tied it in the fifth on an error, Dustin Yoder's double and a squeeze bunt by Kyle Heagy. Ephrata answered in the bottom of the inning on key hits by Madison Zimmerman and Tim Murray.
It all led to the seventh, when the Braves (11-9) got runners to second and third with one out.
Coach Guy Miller called for a suicide squeeze bunt, but when Rutt, on the mound, checked the runner at second, Jon Torres, who pinchran for Chris Algyer, at third, broke for home.
He was out easily. It ended on a line drive, by Yoder, at Ephrata shortstop Paul Larusso.
The Mounts will now face Cedar Crest at 7:00 PM on Tuesday at the War Memorial Field. At 4:00 Solanco will play Manheim Central. The two winners will face each other for the league championship.
We here at www.ephratamounts.com are proud sponsors of the Dodgeball for Diabetes tournament.