Parma Beats Valley Forge 11-2; Advance to Play Brecksville

Parma Heights – The Parma Redmen defeated the Valley Forge Patriots 11-2 to advance to the Sectional Final.

Parma had chances early, after a double from Bobby Hausler and an error, the Redmen has two men on with two outs.

Tom Domke hit a long fly ball to left field where Jacob Kavalec made a nice catch running towards the fence.

It didn’t take long for Parma to break the tie though, in the top of the second inning, Mark Post hit a double to left-center that hit off the fence.

Nate King came up with two outs and hit a bloop fly ball in between Valley Forge Right Fielder Andrew Straub and Second Basemen Dylan Magda that dropped for an RBI single.

Things were relatively quiet until the fourth inning when the Redmen loaded the bases with no outs.

Nate King singled to bring home a run followed by an RBI single from Mark Ivancic.

The Redmen went on to score 7 runs in the inning including a home run from Tom Domke to bring home two runs.

Valley Forge came back with a rally of their own in the fourth, Vinny Zubal got on base from an error to start the inning.

Drew Birch then hit a double to right-center field to bring home Zubal.

Josh Kovach singled to score Birch to cut the score to 8-2.

Sam Ciolek singled and Kovach tried to score.

Kovach was thrown out at home plate to end the inning.

In the top of the fifth inning, Ben Smenda hit a sacrifice fly to score a run followed by a wild pitch to bring home Ivancic.

Later in the inning, Nick Stolarski singled home Bobby Hausler to push their lead to 11-2 and would end the scoring for the night.

Ben Smenda earned the win for Parma going 7 innings giving up 2 runs on 6 hits.

“He’s been consistent all year for us and basically he just throws strikes,” Presloid said. “He makes them put the ball in play and we have a good defense. He puts pressure on the hitters and gets ahead in counts. He attacks every hitter out there and like I said our defense is good enough where we can make plays behind him. He doesn’t walk guys, he’s very efficient.”

Parma will take on Brecksville tomorrow with a chance to advance to the district semifinal.

Valley Forge ends their season with a tough loss to Parma.

“It was the worst temperature season in high school baseball history,” said Valley Forge Baseball Coach Izzy Santiago Jr. “A lot of stuff happened this year that was out of our control with some injuries and some ineligible players and we had to fight through it and that made for a longer season for us. Believe it or not, we’re right on track [for games played]. We played 8 games in one week so we’re right on track.”