Cinnaminson Baseball Reaches RVL Finals

The Cinnaminson baseball team won game three of a series with the Burlington Mets on Friday night at Southampton Memorial Park by a score of 1-0, propelling them to the Rancocas Valley League finals.

Game one of the finals, which pits Cinnaminson against Vincentown, begins Sunday night at 7 p.m. at the same field. The championship round is a best-of-five series.

Cinnaminson scored their only run of the game when Tyler Powell was hit by a pitch in the second inning and then was driven home by Greg Gilbert’s two-out RBI single. Team ace Ryan Varga earned the win, permitting only four hits while striking out three. The loss went to John Harvey.

“Varga was unbelievable. He’s been great all year. We don’t expect anything less from him. Early in the game he got away with a couple of pitches and our defense made a couple of plays behind him,” Cinnaminson manager Brett Miller said.

“Harvey shut us down. We had some chances but every time we got guys on, he made the pitches he needed to make. We left the bases loaded at least once. He deserves all the credit in the world. He pitched better than the fate he got.”

Cinnaminson will take on Vincentown, who beat regular season champion Delran by a score of 7-1 Friday night. Cinnaminson is looking for its second RVL championship in three years, having defeated Burlington two games to one for the title in 2009, when the finals were still a best-of-three series.

“It's going to be a battle. Every time we play them in the regular season or the playoffs, it is always a battle. It's never easy. I don’t expect anyone to walk through it. It’s a classic RVL battle, Cinnaminson versus Vincentown, which has been going for the last 20 years. Even though the faces have changed, it remains the same,” Miller said.

Game one of the best-of-five finals is slated for 7 p.m. Sunday night at Southampton Memorial Park. Jeffrey Singer will toe the rubber for Cinnaminson.