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Hazleton Area Liberty

Cougars

Hurricanes

The Liberty (Bethlehem, PA) varsity baseball team lost Sunday's neutral non-conference game against Hazleton Area (Hazleton, PA) by a score of 8-2.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
Hazleton Area	0	1	2	0	0	5	-	8	12	0
Liberty	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	7	0

Recap
Box Score
Matchup Info

Game Stats

Hazleton Area (23-24)

Hazleton Area has not entered stats for this game.

Liberty (23-24)

Liberty

Batting

#	Athlete Name	Avg	PA	AB	R	H	RBI
	Team Totals	.269	29	26	2	7	2
1	B. Gonzalez (Sr)	1.000	3	2	1	2	0
3	Jack Evans (Sr)	.250	4	4	0	1	0
4	Dayton Aguiar (Sr)	.500	3	2	1	1	0
6	F. Pichardo (Jr)	.000	3	3	0	0	1
8	Luke Piripavel (Sr)	.000	3	2	0	0	0
9	Jacob Rivera (Sr)	.667	3	3	0	2	1
10	Max Landis (Jr)	.000	1	1	0	0	0
11	Paul Erfle (Sr)	.000	3	3	0	0	0
12	Kamron Kensicki (Jr)	.333	3	3	0	1	0
13	Dylan Metzgar (Jr)	.000	3	3	0	0	0

Liberty

#	Athlete Name	BB	K	FC	LOB	OBP	SLG	OPS
	Team Totals	3	4	1	15	.345	.269	.614
1	B. Gonzalez (Sr)	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	2.000
3	Jack Evans (Sr)	0	0	0	3	.250	.250	.500
4	Dayton Aguiar (Sr)	1	0	0	1	.667	.500	1.167
6	F. Pichardo (Jr)	0	0	1	4	.000	.000	.000
8	Luke Piripavel (Sr)	1	1	0	4	.333	.000	.333
9	Jacob Rivera (Sr)	0	0	0	0	.667	.666	1.334
10	Max Landis (Jr)	0	1	0	1	.000	.000	.000
11	Paul Erfle (Sr)	0	1	0	1	.000	.000	.000
12	Kamron Kensicki (Jr)	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.666
13	Dylan Metzgar (Jr)	0	1	0	1	.000	.000	.000

Liberty

Baserunning

#	Athlete Name	SB
	Team Totals	2
1	B. Gonzalez (Sr)	1
10	Max Landis (Jr)	1

Liberty

Fielding

#	Athlete Name	FP	TC	PO	A	PB	SBA	SB	CS	CS%
	Team Totals	1.000	26	18	8	2	2	1	1	.500
1	B. Gonzalez (Sr)	1.000	1	1	0
2	JJ Cruz (Sr)	1.000	1	0	1
3	Jack Evans (Sr)	1.000	5	2	3
4	Dayton Aguiar (Sr)	1.000	2	2	0
6	F. Pichardo (Jr)	1.000	7	5	2	2	2	1	1	.500
9	Jacob Rivera (Sr)	1.000	5	5	0
11	Paul Erfle (Sr)	1.000	4	3	1
15	Jacob Matthews (Jr)	1.000	1	0	1

Liberty

Pitching

#	Athlete Name	ERA	W	L	W%	APP	GS	SV
	Team Totals	8.17	0	1	.000	2	1	0
2	JJ Cruz (Sr)	7.41		1	.000	1	1
20	Zander Frey (Sr)	21.00	0	0		1		0

Liberty

#	Athlete Name	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	2B	HR	BF	AB
	Team Totals	6	12	8	7	4	5	2	1	31	27
2	JJ Cruz (Sr)	5.2	11	7	6	3	4	2	0	28	25
20	Zander Frey (Sr)	.1	1	1	1	1	1		1	3	2

Liberty

#	Athlete Name	OBA	OBP	#P	SB
	Team Totals	.444	.516	102	1
2	JJ Cruz (Sr)	.440	.500	90	1
20	Zander Frey (Sr)	.500	.667	12	0

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Game Story

Pennsylvania High School Baseball - Liberty loses to Hazleton Area

April 7, 2024: Hazleton, PA 18202

The Liberty Hurricanes baseball team (Bethlehem, PA), was overwhelmed 8-2 in Sunday's non-league outing with the host Hazleton Area Cougars (Hazleton, PA)

The Cougars now hold a 1-2 record. They put it on the line next when they travel to Pittston for a Wyoming Valley 1 outing on Monday, April 8. Hazleton Area will confront a Patriots team coming off a 4-0 non-league win over Holy Redeemer (Wilkes-Barre, PA). The Patriots record now stands at 3-1.

Next, the Hurricanes confront the Easton Area Rovers (Easton, PA) in a Eastern Penn - Steel outing, on Monday, April 8. Liberty will attempt to advance on its 4-3 season record. The Rovers go into the outing with a 2-1 record after their 8-7 league loss to Stroudsburg (Stroudsburg, PA).

Hazleton Area vs Liberty Baseball Game Info

Sun., Apr. 7, 2024 @ 3:30p

Game will be played at Berwick.

The Liberty (Bethlehem, PA) varsity baseball team lost Sunday's neutral non-conference game against Hazleton Area (Hazleton, PA) by a score of 8-2.

Rankings & Records

Hazleton Area (23-24)

PA	Class
25	12

Overall	Conference	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	Conference %	RF	RA
20-5	13-1	13-0	5-4	2-1	.800	.929	212	58

Liberty (23-24)

PA	Class
24	11

Overall	Conference	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	Conference %	RF	RA
20-6	13-3	6-3	8-1	6-2	.769	.812	197	67

Team Scoring Averages

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
Hazleton Area	1.4	1.6	.6	1.8	1.5	1.8	.6	8.5	7.6	.9
Liberty	1.1	1.7	1.5	.6	1.3	1.1	1.1	7.6	8.8	.9

Team Stat Comparison

Hazleton Area		Liberty
.154	Batting Average	.331
.340	On Base Percentage	.440
.154	Slugging Percentage	.434
1.000	Fielding Percentage	.964
1.000	Win Loss Percentage	.769

Team Leaders

Hazleton Area		Liberty	National Avg.
#12 Chris Florentino.400	Batting Average	#9 Jacob Rivera.494	.239
#14 Marcos Gil Pena1.000	On Base Percentage	#9 Jacob Rivera.588	.377
#12 Chris Florentino.400	Slugging Percentage	#10 Max Landis.800	.299
#10 Jonas Aponick1.000	Fielding Percentage	#1 Braylen Gonzalez1.000	.862
#28 Antonio Doganiero1.000	Win Loss Percentage	#11 Paul Erfle1.000	.535

Common Opponents

School	Common Opp. Rec.		School	Common Opp. Rec.
Hazleton Area	3-1		Liberty	4-1

Date	Away	Home	Result	Date	Away	Home	Result
4/13/24	Emmaus	Hazleton Area	(W) 9-5	4/17/24	Liberty	Emmaus	(W) 5-0
4/20/24	Hazleton Area	Parkland	(L) 7-6	5/13/24	Parkland	Liberty	(W) 6-2
				5/29/24	Parkland	Liberty	(W) 7-4
5/30/24	Williamsport	Hazleton Area	(W) 6-2	4/20/24	Liberty	Williamsport	(W) 10-5
6/7/24	Neshaminy	Hazleton Area	(W) 2-0	6/3/24	Neshaminy	Liberty	(L) 4-0

Record Breakdown

Hazleton Area (23-24)		Liberty (23-24)
20-5	Overall	20-6
13-1	League	16-3
5-3	Non-League	2-2
1-0	Head to Head	0-1
3-1	Common Opponent	4-1
13-0	Home	6-3
5-4	Away	8-1
2-1	Neutral	6-2
2-1	Playoff	1-1
20-5	In-State	20-6
0-0	Out-of-State	0-0