Our Lady of the Sacred Heart baseball team has huge week
Few teams anywhere could match the week the Our Lady of the Sacred Heart baseball team had last week.
The week started with a 7-6 win over Serra Catholic as the Chargers stopped Alain Girman’s 29-game winning streak.
“Girman had defeated us before and dominated us,” said OLSH coach Phil McCarren. “But the kids weren’t intimidated, they looked on it as a challenge.
The week ended with scoring nine runs after two outs and the bases empty to defeat Chartiers-Houston 10-5 and remain alive in the playoff race. OLSH remains on the outside looking in for the playoff race but the wins over Serra and Chartiers-Houston allow the Chargers a good chance to make the playoffs because of tiebreakers. That chance seemed unlikely early Saturday afternoon.
“There was a lot riding on Saturday’s game and we talked about before and during the game,” McCarren said. “After the first two outs in the seventh and we were down 5-1, I can’t say I was confident but I knew we still had an opportunity.”
Two walks and two singles later, the opportunity was still there until Brandon Duerr, the team’s only senior, got a single to tie the score. Tim Mulzey provided the lead with a two-run double to right center and Chartiers-Houston could not respond in the bottom of the seventh.
The week started with a 7-6 win over Serra Catholic as the Chargers stopped Alain Girman’s 29-game winning streak.
“Girman had defeated us before and dominated us,” said OLSH coach Phil McCarren. “But the kids weren’t intimidated, they looked on it as a challenge.
The week ended with scoring nine runs after two outs and the bases empty to defeat Chartiers-Houston 10-5 and remain alive in the playoff race. OLSH remains on the outside looking in for the playoff race but the wins over Serra and Chartiers-Houston allow the Chargers a good chance to make the playoffs because of tiebreakers. That chance seemed unlikely early Saturday afternoon.
“There was a lot riding on Saturday’s game and we talked about before and during the game,” McCarren said. “After the first two outs in the seventh and we were down 5-1, I can’t say I was confident but I knew we still had an opportunity.”
Two walks and two singles later, the opportunity was still there until Brandon Duerr, the team’s only senior, got a single to tie the score. Tim Mulzey provided the lead with a two-run double to right center and Chartiers-Houston could not respond in the bottom of the seventh.
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