NEWTOWN SQUARE, PA- Episcopal Academy gets revenge after last year’s battle of Newtown Square after they lost on a walk-off homer from Aiden Hennelly.

Marple got on the board first just four batters into the game. After walking to leadoff the game, Aiden Liberty scored on a throwing error by the Churchmen. It was an early 1-0 lead for Marple.

But, Episcopal struck right back. With two runners on, Jake Virbitsky drove in two with a single then Logan Correll then drove in one on a sac fly. Episcopal quickly took the lead, 3-1 after one inning.

Charlie Smith then came out and threw the shutdown inning to set up more runs for the Churchmen.

With two men on in the bottom of the second with two outs, Spencer Schuh ripped a triple to give Episcopal a 5-1 lead.

Smith was strong this game, going four innings, one unearned run, and allowing only three hits. He was given the W. JD Amoroso drove in two more runs for the Churchmen in the bottom of the third, giving them a big 7-1 lead.

Smith threw his last inning in the fourth, allowing two hits, but managing to get out of it unscathed. Lucas Lancaster threw Marple’s first scoreless inning after Episcopal scored in the first three innings.

Ben Michael came in relief for Smith, and threw a scoreless inning. There was no runs scored for either team in the fourth and fifth.

In the top of the sixth, Caden Kropf came into the game and punched out two, leaving the bases loaded.

In the bottom of the sixth, the Churchmen felt they needed just a little insurance. Virbistky tripled to drive in his third run of the day and give Episcopal a 8-1 lead.

Marple finally tacked on some runs in the top of the seventh thanks to RBI’s from Joe Dwyer, Kevin Agger, and Sal Brady. Bottom of the order getting things done. Kropf was then pulled for Dillon Walls, who closed out the game to give the Churchmen revenge over the Tigers.

Marple Newtown falls to 5-5 but remains 5-3 in the Central League. They will face off against a red hot Conestoga (4-4 in CL) on Tuesday, April 22 at home at 3:45.

Episcopal Academy (0-2 in Inter-Ac) moves to 8-6 on the year and will face Springside-Chestnut Hill (1-1 in Inter-Ac) for some in conference baseball Thursday afternoon.