CLARK, NJ- The Arthur L. Johnson High School Crusaders varsity baseball team take to the road to play at Cranford HS on Monday, April 30 at 4:00 p.m.
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Johnson-Cranford is just about an hour and a half away from the start of gametime.
Checking in from Memorial Field, on site for the game.
Our starters for today are Zach Thornton (ALJ) and Jake Van Dam (CRA).
Kyle Adorno steps to the plate and we are officially underway.
Kyle Adorno gets drilled by a 2-2 pitch and gets on to leadoff the inning.
Steve Harrington drives home Adorno with a deep triple. Johnson leads 1-0 with Cranford coming to bat.
Thornton works around a two-out double and gets out of the inning. Johnson leads Cranford 1-0 after one inning.
Van Dam works around a two-out walk and pickoff error to get the final out as we go to the bottom of the second inning.
Thornton retires Cranford 1-2-3 in the bottom of the second inning. Johnson leads Cranford 1-0 after two innings.
Van Dam sends down Johnson 1-2-3 and we go to the bottom of the third inning here at Memorial Field.
An error and a double by Jimmy Shriner and this game is tied 1-1 with one out.
Huge play by Kevin Metz to Zach Thornton to get out of trouble. Johnson and Cranford are tied 1-1 after three innings.
Through three and a half innings, as Cranford comes to bat in the bottom of the fourth inning.
Back-to-back infield hits and there are runners at the corners with no outs.
Sacrifice fly by Mike McGee and Cranford takes a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the fourth inning.
Jake DiClerico drives home a run with a a single and is thrown out by Joe Turek trying to steal. 3-1 Cranford through four innings.
Mike Casalino leads it off with a deep fly ball for a ground-rule double.
Nick McCaffery with a deep flyball, allowing Casalino to come in on the sacrifice fly. 3-2 Cranford as we go to the bottom of the fifth inning.
Thornton gets the final out to get out of the inning. 3-2 Cranford through five innings.
Joe Turek gets hit by the pitch to lead off the inning.
Courtesy runner Brett DaCosta steals second and goes to third on a groundout. Thornton works a walk and there are runners at the corners with one out.
Bases loaded for Johnson with two outs.
Saul Lopez grounds out to end the inning as we head to the bottom of the sixth inning.
Big inning for Cranford. They add three more runs to take a 6-2 lead through six innings.
Joe Turek hits a two-run home run, but Johnson loses to Cranford 6-4. Crusaders leave runners on first and second base.