Eight-Run Third Leads South Broward To Road Win

Flexing their muscles and having large offensive outbursts have been a pattern for the South Broward Bulldogs in recent weeks, as Charlie Cardinale’s boys had scored in the double digits in not just their past three games, but their past six wins in total coming into Tuesday night. On the road against Boyd Anderson, South Broward yet again had the scoreboard operators working all night long as the team scored fifteen runs and notched thirteen hits in a four-inning, 15-4 victory over the Cobras.

It only makes sense that the big hitter on Tuesday night for the Bulldogs, Yjordan Maldonado, was the one who officially got things going with an RBI single in the first inning to score teammate and leadoff hitter Salvatore Zaremba. After stealing second and advancing on an error, Maldonado came around to score thanks to an RBI single from Manny Lebon, who himself scored later in the inning alongside David Brown on a two-run triple by Antonio Schembari.

After scoring two runs in the top of the second, the Bulldogs then exploded for eight runs in the top of the third and proceeded to knock Cobras starter Mickael out of the game with just one out in the inning. The most impressive part of this rally was that the damage mostly came with one out, as a staggering nine consecutive Bulldogs all reached base either by hit or walk. Steven Fondeur, who started the streak with a single, actually was the one to end it with a sac fly to greet reliever Matthew Lyn.

The benefactor of this astounding offensive performance was Miguel Gonzalez, who pitched all four innings for the Bulldogs and struck out eight opposing hitters, Working with such a big lead, all Gonzalez had to do was just get outs and not make mistakes, something the senior accomplished by throwing first-pitch strikes to eleven of the nineteen men that hit against him.

Boyd Anderson tried to make a comeback in the fourth and final inning with three runs, none of which came by way of hit as a dropped third strike, steal of home, and error were the direct catalysts there. Pierrot helped to stage the comeback in the bottom of the second with an RBI double. But Gonzalez struck out the final two men he faced to lock down the win.

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