In the lone game last week, the North Parkland Lehigh Valley Legion baseball team dropped a heartbreaker as rival South Parkland scored a run in its final at-bats to earn the walk off victory on its home field last Thursday. The Buffaloes have three games this week, all at home. They hosted Allentown this past Wednesday, welcome Southern Lehigh on Thursday and then take on Salisbury on Friday.

Thursday, June 22,

North Parkland-South Parkland

North Parkland got on the scoreboard first with a run in its first at-bats in the top of the first inning. Andrew Beers led off the game with a walk and then later stole second during the ensuing at-bat. Beers came home to score the game’s first run two batters later after Matthew Razzis singled on the first pitch he saw to pick up the RBI.

South Parkland responded with a two-run, bottom of the second inning to take its first lead of the game. A one-out walk by Ben Stay was followed by back-to-back singles from John Friday and Jack Streeter, the latter recording an RBI. A balk by North Parkland on the mound allowed another run to score in the frame and the Trojans went ahead 2-1.

After two scoreless innings, the Buffaloes would tie the game at 2-2, as a one-out single by Tsubasa Magota proved crucial as he came around to score one batter later on a run-scoring single from Beers.

The teams would go through a scoreless sixth inning to set up for a dramatic seventh. After getting three straight outs in the top-half of the seventh, South Parkland did not make an out in the bottom-half of the frame, sending four batters to the plate, with two walks and a single to open up the inning. A walk to Mack Parsell with the bases loaded ended the game.