Greater Pittston has won its first four games, making it the last remaining unbeaten Senior team in the Wyoming Valley American Legion Baseball League.
The perfect record and league lead are in jeopardy with Greater Pittston trailing, 9-5, against Stripes & Strikes from Hazleton with two out in the top of the seventh inning when Thursday night’s game was suspended. Greater Pittston still has to bat in the bottom of the seventh.
The completion of the game has not been scheduled yet.
A look at the team’s first four games:
Greater Pittston 9
Swoyersville 5
Cameron Kohut had a double and single in the June 9 season opener.
Chase Yochem and Ryan Petrucci each scored twice.
Toby Hallman pitched five innings in the win. Dylan Melberger finished up.
Greater Pittston 12
Tunkhannock 1
Jimmie Dillon had three hits for Greater Pittston in the June 11 victory.
Cole Cherkas was the winning pitcher with relief help from Zach Mascelli.
Derek Cunius, Alex McAndrew and Matt Cardinale scored twice each.
Greater Pittston 8
Tunkhannock 5
Greater Pittston scored six times in the fourth inning and used five pitches to win Tuesday’s game.
Zach Mascelli, Chase Yochem, Dylan Melberger, Alex McAndrew and Cole Cherkas combined to handle the pitching.
Ryan Petrucci had two hits.
Greater Pittston 10
Nanticoke 9
Greater Pittston scored twice in the bottom of the sixth and Matt Sorick pitched four innings of relief Wednesday to pick up the second win in as many days.
Matt Cardinale tripled and Josh Baiera scored twice.
Youth Legion
Greater Pittston lost its previous two games to slip to 4-3 and fifth place in the eight-team league going into Friday night’s game.
The team had won four straight since losing the season opener, 7-3, to Mountain Post June 1.
Evan Melberger was 2-for-3 in the loss while Jason Wiedl went 1-for-1 with three walks in the opener.
Greater Pittston defeated Stripes & Strikes, 11-1, in six innings June 3.
Hunter Lawall allowed just one hit while striking out four in 5 2/3 innings. He also had a single, double, two runs and two RBI.
Wiedl had two hits and two RBI.
Sam Supey threw four hitless innings June 5 when Greater Pittston shut out Northwest, 14-0, in five innings.
Supey struck out five and went 3-for-4 with two runs and two RBI.
Evan Melburger was 2-for-2 with a walk, two runs and two RBI.
Adam Felinski struck out seven in a complete game during an 8-2 victory over Back Mountain June 8.
Melberger had two hits. Andrew Skutack was 1-for-1 with a sacrifice fly and two RBI. Tyler Wassel had two hits.
Winning pitcher Max Rosen was 2-for-2 with an RBI in a 12-0 shutout of Tunkhannock.
Wiedl was 2-for-2 with a walk while Joe Ranieli was 2-for-3 with two runs and an RBI. Andrew Skutack scored twice.
First-place Swoyersville defeated Greater Pittston, 10-4 and 6-1, June 14 and 16.
Andrew Skutack had two hits and drove in a run in the first meeting.
Owen Hyzinski was 1-for-1 with two walks and the only run scored in the most recent game. Max Rosen had a hit and drove in the run.
