Parkland High School Baseball

The Parkland Trojans beat the Nazareth Blue Eagles today by a score of 7-2 in their final game of the regular season.  The Trojans now prepare for EPC and District playoffs after compiling a regular season record of 19-1.  At Nazareth today, the Trojans jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the 1st inning when Jeff Strisovsky (1-3, BB, R, RBI) and Justin Afflerbach (1-3, BB, 2R) started the game with back-to-back walks.  Chris Rabasco (1-3, 2B, R, RBI) then doubled to right field to put the Trojans ahead 1-0.  Evan McAndrew (1-2, BB, R, 2 RBI) then singled to score two runs and give the Trojans the 3-0 lead. 

Rhett Jacoby pitched a complete game on the mound for the Trojans as he struck out 10, while allowing two runs on eight hits and one walk.   Nazareth scraped together single runs in the 5th and 7th innings for their two runs of the game.  Jacoby improves his record to 4-1 on the season.

Parkland added two runs in the 4th inning when McAndrew walked and Cullan Wadsworth (3-4, 2 R) singled to put runners on first and third with no outs.  Austin Mueller (1-2, RBI) singled to score McAndrew and then Strisovsky singled to plate Wadsworth and put the Trojans up by a score of 5-0.  Parkland added a single run in the 6th inning when Andrew Roth (1-3, RBI) hit an RBI single to score Wadsworth who had lead off the inning with another single.  In the 7th, pinch hitter Kyle Novobilski (1-1, RBI) singled to left field to score Afflerbach who had reached base earlier in the inning on a single.  Nazareth tried to put together a 7th inning rally when they had runners on first and second base with one out after already plating one run in the inning, but Jacoby quickly put an end to it with a strikeout and fly out to end the game for the 7-2 Trojan win.