by Joe DiBlasi
Lingerman threw a complete game six-hitter as the Cardinals defeated
Archbishop Curley for the second time in five days, 10-2, in East Baltimore on Tuesday. The result all but ends Curley’s bid for the top seed in the MIAA A Conference, while reducing the battle for that to prize to a two-team chase between the top-ranked Cardinals and Archbishop Spalding.
Lingerman won his fourth game of the year for coach Lou
Eckerl, and he added insult to injury by pounding two doubles and driving in
four runs to lead a 13 hit attack against two Curley hurlers. Sean Thompson, who
went four innings, took the loss, Curley’s fourth of the season.
“He’s
a great competitor, he’s tough as nails, and he’s unflappable,” said Curley’s
hitting coach Bill Fritz, about lLingerman,
last year’s Player of the
Year.
Rothschild’s blast gave the Hall a 4-1 lead in the second, and
Lingerman added a two-run double in the fourth to make it 6-1. The
Cards would score three more times in the fifth and it was Lingerman again,
driving in two more with his second double.
Patrick Fitzgerald, Eckerl’s
scrappy sophomore second baseman, who leads off now for the Cards, had two hits,
drew two walks,
and scored two runs. His on base percentage on the year is
close to .600.
Patrick Blair had three hits for the Hall, and he again
played masterfully at short. Blair started a 6-4-3 double play in the
first inning after the Friars had claimed a 1-0 lead, and he made a Luis
Aparicio-like back hand stab of a sure base hit in the fifth to keep the Friars
off the bases.
Keith Fritz, who pitched well enough to win on Friday at
Calvet Hall when the Friars stranded 13 runners, was 3-for-3 for coach Jack
Thomas. Playing shortstop yesterday, Fritz got half of the club’s hits, and he
drove both runs. He singed home the first run of the game in the
first, doubled in the fourth, and hit a booming solo home run to deep left in
the sixth.
“They are a very good team,” said the Friars’ shortstop.
“They have good pitching, they play great defense, and they execute.”
Greg
Bryant continued his torrid hitting for the Cards, with another two-hit
performance. He’s 9-for-13 in the last four games, making a big contribution
to the offense. The left-fielder raised his average to .443.
The
Cardinals (12-1 in the league) will host Spalding (13-2 in conference), on Wednesday at Carlo
Crispino Stadium in a yet another big MIAA showdown. The Cavaliers thumped Mount St. Joseph, 12-2, yesterday, to keep pace with the Cards. They got timely hitting from Ryan Woods, Kody Hines, Kevin Moran and Matt Hillsinger. Woods had a double, a homer and three RBI in the win over the Mount.
Calvert Hall 10, Archbishop Curley 2
CH 004 230 1 – 10 13 1
AC 100 001 0 – 2 6 1
Lingerman and Sawyer; Thompson, Cooke and Waltman.
2B: CH-Lingerman (2); Fitzgerald, Cain; AC-Fritz.
HR: CH-Rothschild; AC-Fritz.
WP Lingerman LP Thompson
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