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Potomac Falls blanked Bridgeport twice on Friday and Ryan Miller came within one out of throwing a no-hitter (Potomac Falls photos courtesy of Kristin Stubbs)
(Apr. 20, 2010) - Briar Woods High School stormed past Park View on Friday, 15-2, as the Falcons won their fifth straight game. Briar Woods faces a tough contest when they travel to Broad Run Tuesday for a 6 p.m. contest.
Potomac Falls swept a non-district doubleheader on Friday to improve to 8-1 on the season and Loudoun Valley, on the strength of Bettie Southerland's no-hitter, opened Cedar Run District play with a win over Battlefield.
Tuesday's schedule features a pair of big AAA contests as Heritage hosts Valley for the first time since the Pride moved up in classification to the Cedar Run District and Stone Bridge goes up against McLean, ranked No. 2 by the Washington Post in the metro area.
Tuesday, April 20 Baseball Schedule
Park View at Freedom, 6
The Skinny: Eagles looking for first Dulles District win under first-year coach Jason Treon.
Briar Woods at Broad Run, 6
The Skinny: Spartans host one of the hottest teams in district.
Loudoun County at Potomac Falls, 6
The Skinny: Panthers offense puts up double digits on nightly basis.
Loudoun Valley at Heritage, 6
The Skinny: First ever Cedar Run District meeting between these two teams.
Stone Bridge at McLean, 6:30
The Skinny: Bulldogs go on road to face highly-ranked McLean.
Follow the jump for the round-up from Friday and Saturday
April 16-17 BaseballRound-up
Saturday, April 17
Loudoun Valley 10, Langley 0
The Skinny: Vikes have not reported on this win.
Bridgeport (W.Va.) 12, Loudoun County 1
The Skinny: County struggled to contain the hard hitting visitors as they come out on the short end 12-1, falling to 4-6 overall in this non-league game. Tyler Saleck led the Raiders with two hits and Matt Cunningham had the lone RBI. Ryan Wigfield started on the hill, followed by the first varsity appearance by Hudson Phillips, called up from the JV roster, with Austin Campbell tossing a few, with Kelly Drews in for mop-up duty. Highlights came for LC in the 2nd inning as Nick Veschi and Matt Slack led off with singles, Nick Fischer advanced the runners, setting up Cunningham for the RBI as Veschi scored. Defensively in top of the second Raider catcher Fischer gunned down another runner trying to steal. Also two nice defensive plays were by Kelly Drews being in perfect position as cutoff to save a sure run, and a difficult wind-twirling catch by Cunningham.
Friday, April 16
Broad Run 15, Freedom 0 (5)
The Skinny: With the win, the Spartans now have an overall record of 7-2 on the year; they are 3-1 in the Dulles District. Junior RHP Taylor Clarke threw a one hit, complete game to improve his record to 3-1 on the season on the mound. Clarke struck out 7 hitters and walked none. Offensively the Spartans were led by several players who had multiple hit games: Junior Ryan Johnston had a single and a double, Senior Tyler Small had two singles, and Junior Nick Richardson had a single and a double.
Briar Woods 15, Park View 2 (5)
The Skinny: The Falcons extended their winning streak to five games with senior Austin Frattali leading the way both on the mound and at the plate. Frattali allowed just three hits and two runs in a complete game decision, while garnering three hits and scoring twice himself. Under threatening skies, lightning struck in the 2nd inning when the Falcons broke loose to score 8 runs, breaking open what had been an early 2-1 lead. The inning opened with first baseman David Phillips (Jr.) ricocheting a ball off Patriots Pitcher Bobby Mason, and reaching safely before second baseman Eric Dyer could make the play. Phillips eventually scored the first of the 8 runs on Frattali’s double to left. Through timely hitting and a few tough breaks in the field, the Falcons sent 12 players to the plate in the second, and extended the lead to 10-1. The Falcon offense continued to spread their wings, with 7 of the 9 starters recording base hits, and 8 of the 9 scoring. Other multi-hit performances included: Gavin Scherer (Sr) went 2-for-4, 3 Runs, Victor Rizzardi (Jr) was 3-for-4, 3 Runs, 4 RBI’s, and David Phillips (Jr) was 2-for-3, 2 Runs, 2 RBI’s. The Falcon defense, which has been improving with each game during this streak, took care of the rest. Frattali induced a series of ground balls which the middle of the Falcons infield converted into outs. Shortstop Kevin Wood (So) continued his very steady play, with 4 Assists and 2 Put Outs; and Second Baseman Kyle Haufler (Sr) added 2 Assists.
Osbourn 16, Heritage 8
The Skinny: Pride did not report on this game.
Loudoun Valley 6, Battlefield 1
The Skinny: Beattie Southerland tossed a no-hitter Friday as the Vikes won their first Cedar Run District game on the season. In the first inning Alex Owens hit a triple to send Alexander Bar home and tie up the score 1-1. Vikes took advantage of Bobcats walks to score twice more and take the lead for good.
Stone Bridge 12, Marshall 4
The Skinny: The Bulldogs traveled to Marshall for another cold and rainy day of baseball in Northern Virginia. Despite the cold weather the Bulldog’s bats were hot the first inning of play registering six hits and scoring eight runs with a stolen base by Spenser Brookbank. When Spenser finally took to the mount in the bottom of the first with the cushion established in the top half he was calm and relaxed pitching with confidence that has given the comfort to throw his pitches challenging the opposition to hit it if you can. In the top of the third Dillon Berger led off the inning with a homerun over the left center fence to increase the lead to 9-0. The Stone Bridge bats added another run in the fourth adding the lead for a 10-0 score going into the bottom of the fifth inning. Spenser had a perfect game going into the top of the fifth allowing the minimum to reach the plate before the Marshall bats found their mark with a leadoff double to start the inning. Marshall plated two runs in the fifth that was the last inning on the mound for Spenser. Mac West came on to pitch the sixth inning and start the inning with two quick outs. Marshall was able to touch Mac slightly with a double and a walk that resulted in two runs scored. The inning ended in dramatic fashion as a heads up play by third baseman Dillon Berger threw a bullet to Spencer Rositano to catch a Marshall trying to stretch a single into a double after a short stop Tyler Lighton relayed a throw to Dillon on a routine single to left center. In the top of the seventh Stone Bridge continued to hit the baseball well with a Dillon Berger reaching on an error. Josh Kuzbel followed by slapping the ball down the left field line for a RBI double scoring a hustling Dillon Berger from first. With a 12 to 4 score Stone Bridge turned to left hander Sid Harvey to end the game. After allowing a leadoff walk Sid found his mark by striking out the next batter. A heads up play by Tyler Lighton and Dillon Berger caught Marshall in a base running mistake erasing the leadoff walk. On a smooth pick-off move Sid Harvey caught the Marshall runner leaning to second and picked him off with a perfect throw and run down tag by Daniel Bour to end the game and seal the victory for Stone Bridge.
Potomac Falls 3, Bridgeport 0
Potomac Falls 10, Bridgeport 0
The Skinny: Potomac Falls swept a twilight doubleheader from Bridgeport on Friday night shutting out the Indians. Ryan Mahoney pitched a complete game 4 hitter in the 1st game and Ryan Miller pitched a complete game and came within one batter of throwing a no-hitter in the 2nd game and added a 2-run home run to help his own cause. In the 1st game, the Panthers got all the runs they needed in the 2nd inning on a single by Michael Lascomb, followed by walks to Colin Deely and Tyler Caldwell to load the bases. Matt Byrd then hit a sacrifice fly to right field to score Lascomb and advance the runners. Deely then scored on a passed ball to give the Panthers a 2-0 lead. The Panthers tacked on another run in the 4th on two errors and a fielder’s choice. This was all that Ryan Mahoney needed as he cruised through the Indians lineup limiting them to 4 hits and striking out 6 while going the distance for the Panthers. In the 2nd game, Ryan Miller got all the support he needed in the 1st when Ben Sweger lead off with a triple to rightfield and scored on Thomas Rea's double to left. Rea was then knocked in by Miller’s sacrifice fly to right. The Panthers added a run in the 2nd on a walk to Sweger followed by an RBI single by Ryan Mahoney. With Potomac Falls up 3-0, Ryan Miller was cruising through the lineup facing the minimum 9 batters through 3 innings. The Panthers then broke the game open with a 7 run 3rd inning sending 11 batters to the plate and collecting 7 hits, the highlight being Miller’s towering drive to left that cleared the fence, the road and landed in the swamp an estimated 400 feet away. With the Panthers up 10-0, the only suspense left was Miller’s no hitter. He retired the 1st two batters in the inning before Carlo Oliveiro hit a hard ground ball between 1st and 2nd that just eluded the reach of Colin Deely at first. Miller then struckout Mike Logsdon to end the game.
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