The Greater Pittston Senior American Legion Baseball team made the most of a busy week, winning Wyoming Valley League games each day from Monday through Thursday.
Greater Pittston used the four wins to take over the league lead at 8-2 heading into the final week of the regular season.
The team returns to action Monday with a doubleheader against Back Mountain, completing a suspended game in which it leads 5-3 in the bottom of the fifth, then moving on to play a full game.
Greater Pittston will host the league playoffs beginning Saturday.
Greater Pittston 8, Wilkes-Barre/Plains 1
Nick Cerasaro shut down Wilkes-Barre/Plains, with relief help from Sean Petrosky and Anthony Cencetti, Thursday to lead the team’s fourth win in as many days.
Cerasaro worked five innings. He did not allow a base runner over his final three innings.
Petrosky and Cencetti each worked a scoreless inning.
Jeremy Cawley, Troy Davis, Cencetti, Cerasaro and Matt Stepanski all had at least two hits.
Greater Pittston 6, Nanticoke 4
Troy Davis threw out a runner at the plate in the seventh inning to help secure Wednesday’ victory.
Davis singled and scored on a two-out Hunter Lawall triple in the first inning.
Nanticoke tied the game in the fourth, but Kyle Skutack singled with two out in the fifth and scored on a Jeremy Cawley single.
Davis, winning pitcher Casey Noone, Anthony Cencetti and Cam Moser all had hits in the two-run sixth.
Noone allowed just four runners in the first six innings and got the first out of the seventh before Jack Mathis came on to notch the save.
Greater Pittston 11, Wilkes-Barre/Plains 3
Hunter Lawall drove in four runs by going 3-for-3 with a triple in Tuesday’s romp.
Lawall also pitched the last two innings after Aidan Mehal held Wilkes-Barre/Plains to…