After a pair of tough losses, the Salisbury High School baseball team righted the ship and won its last two games by identical 14-5 scores, beating Northern Lehigh and Pen Argyl to put the Falcons’ league record at 13-2 and their overall record at 16-3 on the season.

The regular season finale will be played at Limeport Stadium against Southern Lehigh.

Salisbury put together 14 hits in the win at Northern Lehigh with Jacob Bucchin leading the way with two doubles and a home run to drive in four runs and score twice himself. Tom Lovelidge, Brady Leiner, and Domonic Gracia each collected two hits in the game with Lovelidge driving in two runs with a triple.

Salisbury scored in each of the first six innings, including scoring four runs in both the second and fourth innings and three in the sixth.

Trailing 2-1 in the top of the second, Lovelidge tripled to score Dominic Popovich and Caleb Gonzalez, who had both singled earlier in the inning. Bucchin followed with his two-run home run to make it 5-2 before the Bulldogs worked their way out of the inning. The Falcons took a 6-2 lead in the third with the benefit on a Northern Lehigh error. Another error put runners on first and second for Salisbury in the fourth and Leiner singled to bring in one run and Michael Stauffer doubled to bring in another and make it 8-2 before another error later in the inning brought in two more Falcons runs.

Four Northern Lehigh errors led to five unearned runs for Salisbury.

Gracia pitched five innings, allowing just two earned runs in the win.

Even though Salisbury had just eight hits – one each from eight different players – in the win at Pen Argyl, the Falcons still put up 14 runs in the win and again took advantage of errors to score seven unearned runs.

Nate Nunez scored four times and drew four of Salisbury’s 10 walks in the game. Austin Spisszak drove in a run on a groundout in the top of the fifth and later added a sacrifice fly and two-run single to drive in four runs in the game and Stauffer launched a three-run home run and Nunez added a solo home run.

Bucchin also drove in three runs on a first inning groundout and a triple in the fifth that brought in two more runs for Salisbury.

The season finale against Southern Lehigh is key in determining the league’s West Division champion and in setting the playoff seedings for the Colonial League playoffs. Northwestern Lehigh and Salisbury Lehigh would tie for the top spot with a Salisbury win over the Spartans in the finale.

A complicated tiebreaker scenario would kick in to determine the division champion, with that team also getting the top seed in the postseason and a first-round bye in league playoffs. If Southern Lehigh defeats Salisbury, then Northwestern Lehigh would get the division title and the top seed.

The league playoffs begin Friday with the quarterfinals and continue next week. One semifinal game will be played at Parkland and the other at Easton High School Monday with the finals set for DeSales University on Thursday, May 16.