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BARLEY HITS FOR THE CYCLE AT LANCASTRA
SUSQUEHANNA SS STEALS THE SHOW WITH HIS PERFORMANCE, BUT LANCASTRA WINS BIG

LANCASTER, PENN. (June 5, 1880) - The ten games between Lancastra Britannia vs Susquehanna are always the ten biggest games of the Inland Championship season, or at least that’s how it’s been for the past three to four years.

This week Lancastra is hosting Susquehanna, and on Saturday the hosts used a massive rally in the eighth inning to take a seven-run home victory, defeat the defending Tucker-Wheaton Cup champions for the third straight game, and clinch the series:

It was a back-and-forth affair in Lancaster. The home side scored twice in B1 on Singles by RF Lonnie Weiss and All-Star CF William White to take a 2-0 lead, and then made it 5-0 in B3 on a two-run Triple by White and a one-run Single by 3B Phillip Little. Susquehanna eventually drew level (5-5), scoring three times in T4 on an Inside the Park Home Run by SS Stephen Barley and a two-run Double by 3B Frank Carer, and then twice in T6 on a Single by LF Walter Braden and a Passed Ball.

Lancastra took a 7-5 lead in B7 on a two-run Double by little, and a Susquehanna run via Passed Ball in T8 cut the hosts’ lead to one (6-7). Then, Lancastra ended the contest with a seven-run rally that gave them a 14-6 lead, with the Runs coming on a series of Singles & Errors. Susquehanna sent through a Consolation Run in T9 on a Triple by Barley to give the game its final score of 14-7.

While Lancastra won the day it was Barley who took home the individual plaudits, as that Triple he hit in the ninth inning completed the 22nd Cycle in the history of the N.B.B.O.:

• T1: Ground Out to SS (2 out)
• T4: SOLO ItP HOME RUN TO RF off G. Richelmi
• T6: Leadoff Double past 3B off G. Richelmi (R)
• T8: Leadoff Single to LF off G. Richelmi (R)
• T9: 1-run Triple to RCF off G. Richelmi
• TOTAL: 4/5 (2B, 3B, HR), 3 R, 2 RBI, 10 TB – CYCLE, DEF DP

Barley’s Cycle was the first in the N.B.B.O. since July 31st of last year, when Binghamton 1B Bernard Puckett hit for one and had seven RBI in a 14-11 win at Syracuse.

The result left Lancastra 12-7 and Susquehanna 10-9. While Susquehanna is in a three-way tie for third in the Inland Championship with Merrimack Mills & Scranton, Lancastra remains a game out of first place because Pioneer has taken three of the first four games during their series at Lake Erie to run their record to 13-6.