Legion teams win big

FrederickNewsPost.com Legion teams win big Originally published July 25, 2009 From Staff Reports

A pair of Frederick County baseball teams opened the State American Legion tournament with emphatic statements Friday. Francis Scott Key Post 11, the tournament runner-up the past three seasons, opened with a 35-3 rout of Cumberland before Gold Star Post 191 followed suit by pounding Pasadena Post 277 by a 26-3 margin at the University of Maryland's Shipley Field. Post 191 will play at 4 p.m. today against Wicomico Post 64, which will be followed at 7:30 by Post 11 against the winner of a game between Gaithersburg Post 295 and Gaithersburg Post 104. Post 11 scored 15 runs in the second inning against Cumberland and batted around four times in the game. Frank Zier, Brady Wilson and John DeSando all had four hits for Post 11. Zier drove in eight runs. Teammate Jimmy Lanning added three hits, including two home runs, and drove in six runs. For Post 191, Jake Ringold and Mike Virbickis had three hits, while Brian Paulus, Jason Driver and Jon Mahaffey each had two. Ringold hit a grand slam, a double and drove in four runs. Virbickis homered, doubled and drove in four. Garrett Price was the winning pitcher for Post 191, as he struck out eight. Post 191 sent 22 batters to the plate and scored 16 runs in the fifth inning against Pasadena. Both of these games were stopped after seven innings due to the 10-run rule.