Sometimes a plan comes together perfectly and sometimes, not so much. Such was the case for Salisbury baseball as the Falcons worked their way through a 2-1 week heading into the Easter break.

The Falcons (4-4 overall; 3-2 Colonial League) could do no wrong in a 10-2 win over Northern Lehigh (1-8 overall, 1-6 Colonial) and the next day, everything was a struggle in a 5-1 loss to Allen (4-5, 2-5 EPC).

Against the Bulldogs the offense pounded out 12 hits, the defense was flawless and Andrew Grejda was masterful on the mound. The junior pitcher threw a complete game, allowing four hits and no walks to go along with 11 strikeouts to pick up his first win of the season and lower his ERA to 1.90 in four games.

At the plate, Tom Lovelidge, Jake Bucchin, Michael Stauffer and Jordan Tocci all picked up two hits in the game with Bucchin launching his first home run of the season. Bucchin’s long ball came with two outs and nobody on in the third and Stauffer followed with a single and a stolen base before coming around on Tocci’s single to left.

In the fourth, five straight singles from Nate Nunez, Lovelidge, Matt Nunez, Bucchin and Stauffer plated four runs and a walk, wild pitch, sacrifice fly by Tocci and an RBI single by Owen Fogel led to two more runs as the Falcons moved out to a 10-0 lead.

Allen put up single runs in the fifth and sixth.

The next day, the Falcon defense committed seven errors that led to three unearned runs. The offense had eight hits, but it produced just a first-inning run when an error brought home Nate Nunez, who had singled earlier in the inning. Salisbury pitchers allowed just four hits with Lovelidge throwing four innings and Fogel coming in for the final two innings.

The week had begun with a 12-5 win at Catasauqua (3-5, 2-5). Salisbury banged out 13 hits, including three from Nate Nunez and two each from Lovelidge, Tocci, and Jake Zellin. Tocci drove in four runs on two doubles and Nate Nunez picked up three RBI in the game.

There were two costly errors in the win that led to two unearned runs against Fogel, who allowed two hits and struck out six in his four innings of work. Brady Leiner kept the Rough Riders off the board for two innings, but they were able to pick up two runs against Matt Nunez.

Break time is over for the Falcons, who open with a game at Moravian Academy (0-5, 0-5) before playing Bangor (7-0, 6-0), Notre Dame (1-6, 1-5), and Palisades (3-3, 3-3) at home over the next week.

Salisbury was in third place in the Colonial League West Division heading into this week, behind first-place Southern Lehigh (5-0) and Palmerton (4-1). The Falcons have 12 games remaining on the schedule and all are league contests.