Wings continue with hot bats, scoring different story... Posted June 27th, 2008

The Wings kept their hot hitting alive as they continue to hit the ball hard tallying 16 hits last night against the Bolivar AIA's. Although the wings pile on the hits, the hits don't seem to be very timely as the wings left 12 runners on base last evening in a 5-4 loss. It was an all Northeastern battery last evening as Aaron Greenblatt (Northeatern) took the loss pitching 5 1/3 innings and allowing five runs with six strikeouts. Charly Bashara (Northeastern) came in and provided 2 2/3 innings of scoreless relief allowing one hit and striking out five in the process. The Wings would score in the top of the first to take an early 1-0 on a Kevin McGrath (Westchester) SAC fly. The Wings could have put the game away early as they had loaded bases with no outs in the first but were only able to score one. The AIA's would respond in the bottom half of the inning making it 1-1, then add four more by the 5th. Bolivar took a 5-1 lead into the eighth when the Wings made it a bit closer scoring two runs on Bill Cupello (Holy Cross) and Matt Perry (Holy Cross) RBI singles. Going into the ninth down by two Eddy Mendiola (Notre Dame) would start witha lead off triple, Kyle Eastham (South Florida) would pick Mendiola up with a ground out to second. The Wings just couldn't muster the last run to tie the game and would fall 5-4. Eight of the Wings starters had at least one hit last night and six Wings had multi hit games, including a 3-4 night for Catcher Jimmy Valhalik (Toledo).

The Wings will host the Allegany County Nitros tonight at 7:30PM at McDonough Park. Come on out, it is supposed to be a wonderful night for baseball!