LEBANON — A little hitting, a little luck and a little largesse set the Lebanon Post 22 American Legion senior baseball team on its way to a doubleheader split with Laconia Post 1 on Saturday.

Post 22 produced a six-run second inning to set the table for a 9-2 win to kick off the twinbill at Lebanon High School. Laconia got its game in order enough to post a 5-4 win in the nightcap for the split.

After going down in order to open the first game, Lebanon (2-5) sent 11 batters to the plate in the second inning for a quick 6-0 lead. Jordan Chappell, Wes Stocken and Zack Howland all had hits for Post 22, which also took advantage of three Laconia errors, a walk, a hit batter and sacrifices from Micah McGinley-Smith and Braeden Falzarano in the big frame.

Stocken rode the support to the opening game win, limiting the visitors to four hits in a complete-game effort. The rising senior also had two hits, walked twice and scored twice. Hayden Chandler also had two runs for Post 22.

Laconia (3-2) went down early in game two but rallied for the victory with a three-run fifth and two-run sixth to erase a 4-0 deficit. Lebanon was held to five hits, two coming from Stocken. Harper Flint took the loss for Post 22.

Lebanon entertains Concord Post 21 for a single District A contest on Sunday.

WRJ 18, Manchester 3Manchester 11, WRJ 2

MANCHESTER, Vt. — White River Junction Post 84 (1-2) scored early and often in the opening half of a doubleheader split at Dana L. Thompson Memorial Park, despite dressing just 11 players.

WRJ brought 17 batters to the plate and scored 11 runs in the third inning to put game one in its pocket. Cameron Tucker, Nate O’Donnell and Nolan Pepe had three-hit efforts for Post 84, with Jacob Dwinell, Alex Bushway, Carder Stratton, Colin Vielleux and Danny Bushway accounting for two hits each out of the 20 WRJ amassed. Stratton earned the win with four innings of three-hit pitching.

White River Junction ran out of steam in the nightcap, allowing Manchester to build a 7-0 lead after two innings. Dwinell, Pepe, Jack McGrath and Rhys Anderson recorded Post 84’s hits, and Vielleux had an RBI.

White River Junction heads to Brattleboro on Wednesday evening.

Berlin sweeps Post 22 juniors

LEBANON — Berlin Post 36 invaded Eldredge Park to hand the Lebanon Post 22 juniors 6-5 and 10-0 defeats in a New Hampshire District A twinbill.

Post 22 (2-3) travels to Merrimack for a district contest on Tuesday night.

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