The good news......the young 'Hawks had 8 hits including 4 doubles against Severna Park. 

The bad news....it wasn't enough to prevent a 10-4 loss.

The top 4 Severna Park hitters were a combined 11-for-16 including 2 homers and a double, scoring 8 of the 10 runs.  In fact, that was ALL of the hits allowed by JK White.  Only 5 of the runs were earned against White.

The 8 Seahawk hits were spread among 7 hitters with 2 going to Jesse Holian.  The four doubles were by Kevin Loftis, Eric Aumann, Holian, and Ryan Schoenbauer.

The defensive highlight of the game was an unusal 5-2-3 double play turned by the Seahawks in the first inning.  The game opened with Severna Park hitters going single, walk, single, single and hit by pitch.  Fortunately, the lead off hitter foolishly attempted to steal second and discoverd that White has a quick move to the plate and catcher Bobby Hite has a rifle arm.  Hite easily caught the runner with his throw to Nick Sia for the first out.  With the bases loaded, the sixth hitter grounded sharply to third baseman Kevin Loftis who snapped a quick throw to the plate to force the lead runner while Bobby Hite fired a strike of his own to first baseman Zach Morris for the inning-ending double play.

It seems that over the last several games (taking out the 1 hit shutout at Broadneck), the younger Seahawks are beginning to catch up with the varsity level pitching.  Balls are being hit more sharply; extra base hits are beginning to fall; and more and different hitters are being involved in rallies. Come playoff time, these young Seahawks just might be a team to scare a few others.