Nor-Gwyn extends its season

Packers bats prevail in continuation of Game 3

LANSDALE » Nor-Gwyn worked its way into the lead midway through, with Matt Blazynski turning the screws, Matt Sperling kept Lansdale’s impressive lineup in check, and Michael Knipe’s majestic, seventh-inning grand slam provided the coup de grace.

The Packers — especially their bats — still have plenty of life, the defending champions’ 9-2 victory over the Tigers Wednesday night forcing a Game Four Thursday evening at Hostelley Field.

“We needed that one,” said Blazynski, who went 2-for-2 with a walk, a run and three RBI’s. “Feels good to get on the board.”

The fourth-seeded Packers — Perky finalists the past two years — look to even the series on Thursday. Top-seeded Lansdale is trying to break through to the finals for the first time since 2008.

Third-seeded Ambler awaits the winner.

“Nobody ever wants to have that last game of the season,” said Blazynski, who was on the receiving end of Sperling’s five-plus innings of work. “You always wanna have that opportunity to come back tomorrow.

“It was a little bit of desperation because it’s win or go home. Games like that are just fun.”

Channeling his inner John “Hannibal” Smith, Blazynski added: “It’s nice when a plan comes together.” PACKERS GO IN FRONT » Lansdale brought a 1-0 lead into Wednesday, courtesy of Rob Zinsmeister’s solo homer on Tuesday before the rain came.

Nor-Gwyn went up 2-1 in the third, an RBI single up the middle by Jason Mills and a sac fly by Blazynski doing the damage. The Tigers evened things at two apiece in the bottom half, when a line-drive shot by Kyle Wenger

GENE WALSH — DIGITAL FIRST MEDIA Nor-Gwyn’s Jon McGlone scores as Lansdale’s Jim Smith fields the throw.