The Yorktown Patriots won their first two games of the baseball season last week with wins over private-school teams Bishop Ireton, 10-0, Bishop O’Connell, 6-5.
Against Ireton, Dereje Reichert started and pitched four innings to get the win and Thomas Ogden pitched the final frame with two strikeouts in the five-inning contest.
With the bat, Thomas Koomey had a two-run double. Having run-scoring singles were Jack Rubin, Owen Woodward, Jack Rucker (two steals), John Rizzo and Isaac Hobbs. Keegan Westhoff had a sacrifice bunt and RBI double. Coby Casalengo doubled.
Yorktown won in extra innings against O’Connell when Westhoff scored on Casalengo’s sacrifice fly in the bottom of the eighth for the walk-off triumph. Koomey had two run-scoring singles and Rubin singled home another run. Yorktown scored other runs on defensive miscues.
Rucker pitched the final three innings of relief with four strikeouts to get the win.
The game was the opener for O’Connell.
For O’Connell, Mark Sirriani had an RBI double; Chaz Walker had a sacrifice fly and RBI single; Truman Leckey singled twice and scored the tying run at 5 on a passed ball in the top of the sixth; and Andy Fronczek, Peyton Kijek and Kamari Chisolm singled. Steven McNeil had a sacrifice bunt.
