High School Baseball : Rally in 8th Lifts Alemany Over Bell-Jeff

Bill Horvat hit a two-run single in the eighth inning to snap a scoreless tie and lead Alemany to a 5-0 victory Thursday over host Bell-Jeff in a nonleague game.

John Lite followed Horvat’s single with a two-run triple. Joe Cupo singled home Alemany’s final run to cap a five-run rally.

Joey Rosselli (2-3) pitched a four-hitter and struck out 10.

Alemany, which had 10 hits, improved to 9-6.

St. Bernard 6, Crespi 0--The Celts had seven hits but could not push any runs home in the nonleague game at St. Bernard.

Eric Berg was 2 for 3 for Crespi, which fell to 4-8. Chad Nichols, a junior right-hander, started for the Celts and gave up all of St. Bernard’s runs before he was replaced by John Dempsey in the fifth.

Dempsey struck out the side with runners on first and second in the fifth, then retired the Vikings in order in the sixth.

St. Bernard took advantage of a prevailing wind to hit three home runs.

“We were the victim of a small field and we didn’t take advantage of it ourselves,” Crespi Coach Scott Muckey said.