CLASS B Lamport's two-hitter saves Rondinelli Tuxedo

The best-of-5 championship series will be decided tonight.
By PAUL TRGOVAC
VINDICATOR CORRESPONDENT
STRUTHERS -- Trailing in the series 2 games to 1 and having been outscored in the last two games 21-7, the Rondinelli Tuxedo baseball team needed a good pitching effort Sunday if it had any hope of forcing a fifth game in the Class B Championship Series.
Reid Lamport delivered for Rondinelli as he pitched a two-hitter.
Rondinelli scored a pair of runs in the fourth and fifth innings to defeat Line Drive Academy 4-1 at Bob Cene Park.
The fifth game of the series will be played there tonight at 8.
Finding a rhythm
Lamport was dominating from the start as he retired the first eight men he faced before Vasili Pahoulis reached base on an error.
Then after a walk to Jon Zizzo, Lamport retired Chris Tremblay on a ground ball to first baseman John Sciullo to end the inning.
Lamport was matched on the mound by Line Drive's Cole Budinsky, who retired the first eight men he faced before Lee Keck singled for the first hit for either team. Budinsky ended the inning by picking off Keck.
Justin Byler got the first hit of the game for Line Drive with one out in the fourth inning.
In the home half of that inning, Gary Bucuren led off with a single.
Josh Conkey then laid down a sacrifice bunt down the first-base line. Budinsky tried to scoop up the ball and tag Conkey, but he dropped it.
Scott Bender singled to load the bases, and the first run of the game came in on a fielder's choice grounder off the bat of Mike DeNiro, with Bender out at second base.
Taking the lead
A lead-off walk to Mike Eliseo started the Line Drive fifth inning. After a stolen base, Pahoulis' single scored Eliseo for a 2-1 lead.
After two quick outs in the bottom of the fifth, Conkey coaxed a walk. Bender drove a triple to straight away center field to score Conkey, who scored Rondinelli's fourth run on a wild pitch.
Lamport did not allow a hit the rest of the way. He retired eight of the last nine men he faced, with only a two-out walk to Craig Dobos in the seventh inning.
Bender had two hits in the game, while Budinsky allowed four runs, three of them earned, on five hits, two walks and three strikeouts.