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Hopewell North Catholic

Vikings

Trojans

The North Catholic (Cranberry Township, PA) varsity baseball team lost Monday's home playoff game against Hopewell (Aliquippa, PA) by a score of 6-2.

Game Details: Seneca Valley Senior High School

This game is a part of the "2023 WPIAL Baseball Championship (Pennsylvania) - Class 4A" tournament.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
Hopewell	0	0	0	1	2	3	0	6	9	0
North Catholic	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	2	9	2

Final score provided by B. Yerace.

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Game Stats

Hopewell (22-23)

Hopewell

Batting

#	Athlete Name	Avg	PA	AB	R	H	RBI	HR
	Team Totals	.290	37	31	6	9	5	1
2	Z. Gigliotti (So)		4	2
6	Lucas Walton (Jr)	.750	4	4		3
8	John Vescio (Jr)	.500	4	4	1	2	1
9	Landon Fox (Sr)	.333	4	3	1	1	1
10	Kingston Krotec (Fr)		4	4
15	Ty Eberhardt (Sr)	.200	5	5	1	1
21	Greg Barlion (Sr)		4	3
24	Stephen Slate (Sr)		4	2	2
26	Lucas Arington (Sr)	.500	4	4	1	2	3	1

Hopewell

#	Athlete Name	SH/B	BB	K	ROE	FC	OBP	SLG	OPS
	Team Totals	1	5	2	3	4	.389	.387	.776
2	Z. Gigliotti (So)	1	1	1			.333	.000	.333
6	Lucas Walton (Jr)						.750	.750	1.500
8	John Vescio (Jr)						.500	.500	1.000
9	Landon Fox (Sr)		1			1	.500	.333	.833
10	Kingston Krotec (Fr)			1		1	.000	.000	.000
15	Ty Eberhardt (Sr)				1	1	.200	.200	.400
21	Greg Barlion (Sr)		1		1		.250	.000	.250
24	Stephen Slate (Sr)		2			1	.500	.000	.500
26	Lucas Arington (Sr)				1		.500	1.250	1.750

Hopewell

Baserunning

#	Athlete Name	SB	SBA
	Team Totals	1	1
6	Lucas Walton (Jr)	1	1

Hopewell

Fielding

#	Athlete Name	FP	TC	PO	A	SBA	SB
	Team Totals	1.000	25	21	4	2	2
2	Z. Gigliotti (So)	1.000	1		1
6	Lucas Walton (Jr)	1.000	3	3
8	John Vescio (Jr)	1.000	3	3
10	Kingston Krotec (Fr)	1.000	1	1
15	Ty Eberhardt (Sr)	1.000	2	2
21	Greg Barlion (Sr)	1.000	4	4
23	Charlie Smetana (Fr)	1.000	7	7		2	2
24	Stephen Slate (Sr)	1.000	2		2
26	Lucas Arington (Sr)	1.000	2	1	1

Hopewell

Pitching

#	Athlete Name	ERA	W	W%	APP	GS
	Team Totals	2.00	1	1.000	3	1
8	John Vescio (Jr)	2.10	1	1.000	1
10	Kingston Krotec (Fr)	2.33			1	1
16	David Medich (So)				1

Hopewell

#	Athlete Name	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	2B	BF	AB
	Team Totals	7	9	2	2	2	6	1	32	28
8	John Vescio (Jr)	3.1	6	1	1	1	3		17	15
10	Kingston Krotec (Fr)	3	3	1	1	1	2	1	13	11
16	David Medich (So)	.2					1		2	2

Hopewell

#	Athlete Name	OBA	OBP	SF	SH/B	#P	SB
	Team Totals	.321	.355	1	1	91	2
8	John Vescio (Jr)	.400	.412	1		49	1
10	Kingston Krotec (Fr)	.273	.333		1	42	1

North Catholic (22-23)

North Catholic has not entered stats for this game.

Game Story

Pennsylvania High School Baseball - Hopewell holds off North Catholic

May 22, 2023: Cranberry Township, PA 16066

In Monday's non-league challenge, the Hopewell Vikings (Aliquippa, PA) baseball squad the host North Catholic Trojans (Cranberry Township, PA), by a final score of 6-2.

With the win, Hopewell upgrades its record to 10-11 on the season. The Vikings travel to Indiana (Indiana, PA) to battle the Little Indians in a non-league challenge on Tuesday, May 23. The Little Indians come into the challenge with a record of 16-7. Indiana won 4-1 in their recent non-league challenge against Blackhawk (Beaver Falls, PA)

With the defeat, North Catholic falls to 11-11 on the season.

Rankings & Records

Hopewell (22-23)

PA	Class
77	11

Overall	Conference	Home	Away	Win %	Conference %	RF	RA
14-12	4-6	5-6	9-6	.538	.400	132	152

North Catholic (22-23)

PA	Class
201	24

Overall	Conference	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	Conference %	RF	RA
11-11	9-2	7-4	4-6	0-1	.500	.818	130	108

Team Scoring Averages

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	R	H	E
Hopewell	.7	1.4	.6	.7	.5	.7	.4	0	0	2.5	5.1	7.5	2.0
North Catholic	1.4	.8	.8	.6	1.4	.3	1.0	-	-	-	5.9	7.2	1.7

Team Stat Comparison

Hopewell		North Catholic
.270	Batting Average	.315
.379	On Base Percentage	.426
.340	Slugging Percentage	.443
.932	Fielding Percentage	-
.538	Win Loss Percentage	.500

Team Leaders

Hopewell		North Catholic	National Avg.
#5 Zachary Muzy.500	Batting Average	#17 Ryan Shantz.411	.243
#21 Ben Mcdonald.667	On Base Percentage	#7 Marco Napolitano1.000	.375
#5 Zachary Muzy.500	Slugging Percentage	#27 Blake Primrose.590	.307
#19 Logan Triscila1.000	Fielding Percentage	-	.861
#17 Emmet Mccowin1.000	Win Loss Percentage	#26 Tommy Schafale.833	.543

Common Opponents

School	Common Opp. Rec.		School	Common Opp. Rec.
Hopewell	2-4		North Catholic	2-3

Date	Away	Home	Result	Date	Away	Home	Result
4/11/23	Blackhawk	Hopewell	(L) 5-1	4/20/23	North Catholic	Blackhawk	(L) 14-3
4/12/23	Hopewell	Blackhawk	(L) 13-5
4/14/23	Riverside	Hopewell	(L) 10-6	4/27/23	Riverside	North Catholic	(L) 9-5
4/20/23	Hopewell	Riverside	(L) 8-0
5/23/23	Hopewell	Indiana	(W) 7-5	4/24/23	Indiana	North Catholic	(W) 3-2
				4/25/23	North Catholic	Indiana	(W) 9-4
5/30/23	Hopewell	Greater Latrobe	(W) 4-3	5/10/23	North Catholic	Greater Latrobe	(L) 4-2

Record Breakdown

Hopewell (22-23)		North Catholic (22-23)
14-12	Overall	11-11
4-6	League	9-2
4-5	Non-League	1-7
1-0	Head to Head	0-1
2-4	Common Opponent	2-3
5-6	Home	7-4
9-6	Away	4-6
0-0	Neutral	0-1
6-1	Playoff	1-1
14-12	In-State	11-10
0-0	Out-of-State	0-1