I sat there, drank some water and went out and threw.” “It was an adventure,” Nolan said, “but believe it or not, I really didn’t do much (to stay loose).
Nolan’s outing was interrupted twice by 30-minute lightning delays, but each time he returned to the mound to keep pitching. West A pitcher Nathan Nolan earned the win by holding Peters Township to two hits and one run over five innings of relief. We for whatever reason couldn’t find it today.” “We were just one key hit finding a hole from maybe swinging that momentum our way. “We were right there,” Peters coach Rocky Plassio said. But the team stranded 10 runners, including one apiece in the sixth, seventh and eighth innings. Peters Township (21-2) was seeking its third WPIAL title after winning consecutive championships in 2007-08. Tied 4-4, the game was again halted prior to the eighth inning. Drew Ripepi earned a two-out walk and Jack Kail followed with an RBI single. Peters Township emerged from that 40-minute pause to quickly tie the score. The first weather delay came in the sixth inning with West Allegheny leading 4-3. “It’s amazing how a group of guys who weren’t expected to do much, came together,” Raineri said.
The WPIAL championship was the fifth overall for third-seeded West Allegheny (19-4) and the first since 2014. The marathon game ended around 11:15 p.m. They’re going to make it an extra-inning game through two rain delays. “What else is this team going to do?” Cornell said. West A coach Bryan Cornell said he’d learned this year to never count his guys out. So, a four-hour championship fit them well.Īs Wednesday night threatened to become Thursday morning, West Allegheny’s Anthony Raineri bounced an eighth-inning single past second base to score Brady Miller with the go-ahead run in an extra-innings victory over top-seeded Peters Township, 5-4, in a WPIAL Class 5A championship delayed twice by lightning.
Not much has come easy this season for West Allegheny, a team that battled through injuries and plenty of inconvenience to reach Wild Things Park.
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