The pitching was virtually identical from Salisbury's Chris Bishop and Emmaus's Zack Schrader during their meeting last week.

However, it was Salisbury's defense which was the difference in the contest.

Despite a complete game, six-hit outing from Bishop, the Falcons committed four fielding errors, allowing two unearned runs as they fell to Emmaus, 3-1, in a Lehigh Valley Legion baseball game Thursday night at Emmaus Community Park.

"You are going to make mistakes, but you have to make up for it is some way, shape or form," Salisbury manager Chris Rapp said. "You can't make a mistake and bow your head. You have to come back and make it up for your team. Do any little thing you can do. In a wooden bat league, the little things matter. We made more errors than they did and they won 3-1."

The two unearned runs were the difference maker in the contest and was the problem from the beginning. Emmaus leadoff man Evan Marushak got on base after a first baseman Jonathan Benitez misplayed a grounder. Marushak would score three batters later via a sac fly to left field off the bat of Nick Amey.

Salisbury committed another error in the bottom of the second inning, but emerged unscathed.

The Falcons knotted it up in the top of the third as left fielder Chad Tocci hit a one-out single. After back-to-back two-out singles by Noah Adams and Nick Sikora, Tocci found himself crossing home plate, tying the game at one.

Rapp liked the way his team did at the plate.

"After the first time through the lineup, I think we started to make good contact after that," he said. "I think we have to time it a little better, but they played good defense against us. Give the other team credit, they deserved to win. We made two costly errors that cost us the game, but I don't want to take anything away from them."

Bishop helped keep the Falcons in the game, going the distance and pitching well, something that he has done often this season. Bishop has pitched 13 innings and given up only three earned runs.

"I think I've started pretty good," Bishop said of his season. "Coach really gave me confidence out there. He has let me out there, despite me giving up runs. He has the confidence in me to go seven innings each game."

The Green Hornets plunged in the next few frames as they scored once in the fourth and again in the fifth, both of which were aided by fielding errors.

"I've seen nothing negative," Rapp said. "Kids are kids. Sometimes they don't always see the bigger picture. They get mad at something that happens. [I see] positives all around. The kids that are not playing as much are staying positive. The kids are bouncing back from mistakes. They are not letting them haunt them.

"The kids are great. It is a great a group and they are really easy to coach."