Rams walk off past Abington

Pennridge scores 2 in bottom of 7th to rally past the Ghosts

Pennridge couldn’t have written a better script for Senior Night.

The Rams stepped to the plate trailing by one run in the bottom of the seventh inning Friday night at James Memorial Park. After back-to-back walks to start the inning, Conor Flyn tied the game with an RBI single to center field. Two batters later, Robbie Pliszka singled past a diving Abington infielder to knock in the game-winning run and lift Pennridge to a 9-8 non-league win over the Ghosts.

“I was confident,” Pliszka, who went 2-for-5 with three RBI, said. “Right before the pitch I said, ‘just like wiffle ball.’ I smacked it just like backyard wiffle ball. It was a great pitch, saw what we needed and got the job done. Couldn’t be more proud of these boys. Came back down one in the last inning. Unbelievable fight.

“Senior Night — it’s a great night. It felt special to walk it off this way. I’m glad we were able to do that. That’s a perfect, storybook ending.”

Jaden Morgan played a big role throughout the game in the Rams’ win, going 2-for-2 with two walks, four runs and two RBI. He made key plays on the basepaths, including scoring a go-ahead run in the bottom of the fifth on a ball hit back to the pitcher and stealing second in the bottom of the seventh to put the tying run in scoring position.

“I value base-running a lot,” Morgan, who swiped two bags and advanced on two wild pitches, said. “Any little sneaky bag you can grab is really huge. From first to second, that’s going from no scoring position to scoring position. That’s pretty huge — any gapped ball I’m stealing home. It’s important to get good jumps on steals. People don’t re

ED MORLOCK - MEDIANEWS GROUP Pennridge’s Quinn Keller threw 42⁄3 no-hit innings against Abington Friday.