Salem CC pulls away from close game with six in final two bats, includes scores, details from Wednesday’s limited Salem County sports calendar
WEDNESDAY’S GAMES
BASEBALL
Overbrook 16, Penns Grove 2
SOFTBALL
Overbrook 21, Penns Grove 1
TENNIS
Winslow at Penns Grove
COLLEGE BASEBALL
Salem CC 9, Bergen 5
By Riverview Sports News
PARAMUS — The Salem CC baseball team was locked in a tight battle with Bergen for seven innings Wednesday, then erupted for six runs in their final two bats to pull off a 7-2 win that strengthened its position for a Region 19 playoffs.
The Mighty Oaks led 3-2 through seven innings with Joe Pallante and Mike Valente keeping the Bulldogs at bay from the mound, then broke it open with four runs in the eighth. Roman Hernandez scored on a passed ball, Cliff Wysinger drew a bases-loaded walk and Jason LeBold lofted a sacrifice fly and J.J. Pankowski scored the fourth run.
Trevor Hernandez and Pankowski both had two hits in the game.
They added two in the ninth.
Pallante and Valente both pitched four innings. Pallante gave up three hits and an unearned run. Valente also went four, giving up five hits and one run. Joe D’Amato brought it home in the ninth.
“Pitching did its job,” Mighty Oaks coach John Holt said.
The win left the Mighty Oaks (20-21, 15-12) three games up in the Region 19 win column on ninth-place Ocean CC, four full games up overall on Bergen CC and just one game behind seventh-place Camden and two back fifth-place Montgomery and RCSJ-Cumberland.
They hold the tiebreakers on Ocean and Bergen, but not Camden, Montgomery or RCSJ-Cumberland.
Region XIX Standings
| DIVISION III BASEBALL | R19 | ALL | GSAC |
| RCSJ-Gloucester | 21-5 | 25-9 | 16-5 |
| Brookdale | 20-7 | 30-8-1 | 17-5 |
| Middlesex | 18-8 | 27-13 | 14-6 |
| Northampton | 15-7 | 24-13 | |
| RCSJ-Cumberland | 16-9 | 24-11-1 | 11-6 |
| Montgomery | 16-9 | 16-9 | |
| Camden | 15-10 | 18-14 | 11-9 |
| SALEM CC | 15-12 | 20-21 | 12-8 |
| Ocean | 12-14 | 15-17 | 10-11 |
| Bergen | 11-16 | 13-23 | 11-13 |
| Atlantic Cape | 4-23 | 4-23 | 2-18 |
| Union | 2-22 | 5-25 | 0-19 |
| Delaware County | 1-25 | 2-25 |
WEDNESDAY’S GAMES
Salem CC 9, Bergen 5
Mercer 11, Rockland CC 1
RCSJ-Cumberland 9, Camden 4
Montgomery 14, Atlantic Cape 4
Northampton at Middlesex
Union 12, Delaware County 5
Brookdale 14, RCSJ-Gloucester 8
Sussex at Suffolk
THURSDAY’S GAMES
Monroe-Bronx at Sussex
Bronx CC at Raritan Valley
Montgomery at Brookdale
Baseball
OVERBROOK 16, PENNS GROVE 2: Tyler Burger homered and drove in three runs and three Overbrook pitchers held Penns Grove to two hits over five innings as Rams run-ruled the Red Devils for the second day in a row. Connor McNally also drove in three runs for the Rams. Yadiel Sierra-Soto and Dylan Hyatt had Penns Grove’s two hits. Sierra-Soto and Liam Irvin drove in the Red Devils’ runs in the fifth inning.
Softball
OVERBROOK 21, PENNS GROVE 1: Natalia Silva went 3-for-4 with three RBIs and Angelina Campbell spun a four-inning no-hitter with two walks and five strikeouts. The Red Devils scored their run in the top of the first on three hit batsmen and Nyh’la West’s bases-loaded walk, then Campbell retired 10 of the next 11 batters she faced. The Rams, meanwhile, scored three in the bottom of the first to take the lead, then erupted for 10 in the second.
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