Parkland High School Baseball

The Parkland JV's suffered their third consecutive loss when they could not hold a late inning lead, losing to Governor Mifflin by a score of 6-5.  Governor Mifflin took an early 1-0, but Parkland answered in the bottom of the 1^st with a run to tie it up at 1-1.  Scott Hudock (1-2, Sac) singled to lead off the inning and Andrew Roth (2 bb, 3 SB, 3R) followed with a fielder’s choice.  After Roth stole second base, Michael Jenkins (1-3,BB, RBI) singled to put runners on the corners.  Kyle Friebolin (1-2, Sac, 2 Rbis) hit a sacrifice fly to score Roth and tie the game at  1-1.

After Parkland's defense allowed two unearned runs to score on errors, their bats got a run back in the bottom of the 3^rd inning.  Roth and Jenkins walked, and then Friebolin singled to deep right center to score Roth, cutting Governor Mifflin's lead to 3-2. 

Starting pitcher EJ Brandt (5 IP, 3 runs, 2 SO , 3BB) shut down Governor Mifflin in 3^rd, 4^th and 5^th innings.  In the bottom of the 5^th, Roth walked and made it to third after stealing second base and advancing to third on a wild pitch.  Jenkins plates Roth with an RBI ground out to tie the game 3-3.  After a Friebolin walk and a Matt Mellinger (1-3, BB, 1 run) single,  pinch hitter Ethan Imler (1-1) was hit by a pitch to load the bases.  Freshman Austin Mueller (1-3, bb, 2 rbis) hit a 2-RBI single to centerfield to put the Trojans in the lead by a score of 5-3.

Relief pitcher Matt Mellinger (2 IP, 3 R, 2 SO, 2 BB) entered the game in the 6th inning.  The Mustangs would go on to score 3 unearned runs to grab back the lead 6-5.  Braedan Duff (1-1) got things going in the 6th inning for the Trojans with a single and he moved to second base on a Hudock sacrifice.  However, Parkland was unable to capitalize and would go scoreless in the last two innings for the 6-5 loss.