Barthol, DeLong pitch PHS to wins
The Parkland High School baseball team won all four of its games last week and ended the week riding a seven-game win streak.
Three of the four games last week were in the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference, including a 7-4 win at Liberty last Monday, April 3, an 8-2 triumph at Central Catholic on Wednesday and a 5-1 victory at home against Whitehall to conclude the week on Saturday. Sandwiched in between the games with the Vikings and Zephyrs was a 10-0, five-inning win over Quakertown.
The Hurricanes got on the scoreboard first with two runs in the bottom of the second inning.
But the Trojans answered with back-to-back, three-run innings in the third and fourth. Will Dobil and Michael Cole scored on a Liberty error in the third and Bo Barthol came around the next batter on a ground ball, fielder’s choice to put them in front.
In the fourth, Matthew Razzis and Louis Inserra connected for consecutive RBI singles as Parkland went up 6-2.
Liberty added two runs in the bottom half of the fourth, but Parkland tacked on an insurance run in the seventh and rode the arm of Mack Parsell to finish off the last two frames. Owen DeLong earned the win by going five innings. Jaiden Wanamaker joined Cole, Barthol and Razzis with two hits.
Parkland jumped on Quakertown from the start, scoring five runs in its first at-bats and Barthol allowed just two hits, striking out eight on the mound for the win.
Razzis, Inserra and Andrew Klotz all had with two hits with Inserra adding four RBIs. Gavin Mohry had a hit and two RBIs and Michael Oliver had an RBI.
The Trojans recorded a run in the third and two runs in each of the fourth and fifth innings and got another strong pitching performance, this one from DeLong, who had a complete-game, two-hitter, who struck out five and did not allow an earned run.
Dobil had two hits and scored a run.
After splitting a pair of conference games to start the week, Parkland sits at 8-2 overall and 6-2 in the EPC, tied for first in the West Division with Northampton and Whitehall, both at 6-2 EPC records. The Trojans finish the week playing rival Emmaus Thursday and Hazleton on Saturday afternoon.