This was a spring where the Cicero-North Syracuse and Liverpool baseball teams both found their way to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina during the school break.
Liverpool’s first game at Myrtle Beach was a 9-5 defeat to Lincoln High School, with all of the Warriors’ runs coming in the third, fourth and fifth innings as it only trailed 6-5 before Lincoln got away late.
James Kelly and Chris Monahan split pitching duties, Kelly going 3 1/3 innings and Monahan 2 2/3 innings. Colin Avery was three-for-four at the plate, Cayden Nappa adding two hits as he doubled and got two RBIs, single runs driven in by Avery, Monahan and Graham Hoppe.
Then came a 12-2 loss to CG Woodson (Virginia), a game which was tight until Woodson got three runs in the fifth inning and seven in the bottom of the sixth.
Nico Leone pitched and got the defeat, Dom Carroll seeing a stint in relief. Hoppe and Noah Bangson drove in runs as they both got hits, the other hits going to Dylan Wiggins and Michael Murphy.
After a 9-1 defeat to Chesterfield (South Carolina) on Tuesady, in Wednesday’s action Liverpool fell 11-3 to Tuscarora (Virginia), who put up runs in every inning except the first. Michael Murphy had two of the Warriors’ four hits and drove in all of the runs, one each in the first, third and fifth innings as he twice scored Nappa. Paolo Munetz pitched and took the loss.
This trip concluded Thursday with a 6-0 loss to Cherry Hill (New Jersey), who only gave up hits to Nappa and Wiggins. Monahan, pitching a second time this week, allowed four second-inning runs before Hoppe, in relief, gave up two runs in the sixth.
C-NS took the field against Fairfax (Virginia) Tuesday afternoon and rolled to a 10-3 victory, erasing an early 1-0 deficit with multiple runs in four consecutive innings starting in the bottom of the second.
A four-run fourth provided a particular cushion as Jaden Zimmer hit his team’s only home run, earning a pair of RBIs. Shacory Williams also drove in two runs as Ben Watkins scored twice and single RBIs went to Jeremy Palmer and Carter Petranchuk.
With a five-inning stint on the mound helped by two innings in relief from Landon Cook, Kaden Kalfass picked up the victory limiting Farifax to three hits and accumulating seven strikeouts.