Edgar Melik-Stepanyan
GLENDALE -- The Glendale Knights travel baseball team continued their
impressive play at the Dreams Park Invitational in Cooperstown, N.Y.,
winning both of their games Monday.
The Knights -- who won the tournament in 1999 -- defeated the Eastview
Lightning, 6-2, in their first game.
Colin Sabo led the way offensively against the Lightning collecting
two of the Knights' eight hits against the Minnesota-based team.
But the story of the game belonged to Knight pitcher Chad Nacapoy.
The 12-year-old right hander pitched a complete-game, three-hitter,
allowing two walks and striking out four.
Brett Hertz, Nacapoy, Chase Doremus, Trevor Gee, Jordan Hines and
Grant Hardyment each contributed with a hit.
Glendale returned later that day to defeat the Virginia-based
Centreville Wild Dogs, 4-2 in eight innings.
Andrew Sember's single in the top of the eighth scored Nacapoy for the
game-winning run. Michael Pech later scored on a fielder's choice to give
Glendale an insurance run as it improved its mark to 4-0.
Sember picked up his first win, pitching three innings, allowing only
one hit and no runs.
BOX SCORE
Knights*0*0*2*2*0*2*--*6*8*1
Lightning*0*0*1*0*0*1*--*2*3*3 Knights*IP*R*ER*H*BB*K
Nacapoy*6*2*2*3*2*2
Lightning*IP*R*ER*H*BB*K
Modryanski*2*2*2*3*2*2
Retku*4*4*3*5*1*1
Total*6*6*5*8*3*3
WP-Nacapoy (1-0).
LP-Modryanski (0-1).
BOX SCORE
Knights*0*0*2*0*0*0*0*2*--*4*8*1
Wild Dogs*0*0*1*1*0*0*0*0*--*2*4*1
Knights*IP*R*ER*H*BB*K
Pech*5*2*2*3*2*7
Sember*3*0*0*1*3*1
Total*8*2*2*4*5*8
Wild Dogs*IP*ER*H*BB*K
Humphreys*5*2*2*4*3*4
McNair*1*0*0*0*0*0
Hastings*2*2*1*4*1*1
Total*8*4*3*8*4*5
WP-Sember (1-0).
LP-Hastings (0-1).
