Both teams were strong on the pitcher’s mound Saturday, but the Nazareth Swifts defeated Clarendon 3-2. Nazareth pitchers allowed just four hits to Clarendon.
Clarendon got on the board in the first inning. An error scored one run for Clarendon.
Carson Heiman earned the victory on the hill for Nazareth.
Heiman lasted 6.1 innings, throwing 110 pitches, allowing four hits and two runs while striking out two and walking four. Sterl Welps threw two-thirds of an inning in relief out of the bullpen, with seven pitches and one strikeout.
Luke Schulte had three at bats, one run, one hit and one walk; Carson Heiman, four at bats, one run, one hit and one strikeout, Tanner Birkenfeld, four at bats, one hit, one RBI and one strikeout, Sterl Welps, three at bats and two walks, Braden Bullard, one at bat and one walk; Jack Welps, two at bats, Will Young, three at bats, and two strikeouts; Brett Heitschmidt, one at bat, one run, one walk and one strikeout; and Tell Bagley, two at bats and two strikeouts.