Senior American Legion Baseball makes playoffs

Phoenixville’s Senior American Legion baseball team has qualified for the Chester County League playoffs that start Wednesday.
The Athletics clobbered Paoli, 25-0, in 4 1/2 innings Monday night at “Doc” Kennedy Field in their regular season finale to close with a 9-9 record in the North Conference. The A’s are the seventh seed in the eight-team field and will meet No. 2 NorChester at Owen J. Roberts High School Wednesday at 5 p.m. in the first round of the double-elimination playoffs.
In other first-round action, No. 1 Kennett hosts No.l 8 Westtown at Unionville High School; No. 3 Downingtown hosts No. 6 Exton at Downingtown West High School and No. 4 Spring City entertains No. 5 Caln at Spring-Ford High School’s Ram Stadium.
Against Paoli, Phoenixville banged out 18 hits, including a grand slam home run by Jesse Daywalt, a two-run triple by Thomas Romano and an RBI double by John Wieland.
Cal Milano finished 5-for-5 with five singles, four RBI and three runs scored. Robby Werner finished 3-for-4 with three RBI, two runs scored and one hit by pitch. Matt Cohen scored four runs with three walks and two RBI out of the leadoff spot in the batting order.
Dillon Fina picked up the pitching victory with three innings of work while Gary Moses and Matt Pilewski each hurled an inning of relief. The trio combined on a two-hit shutout.
Despite not having three of their top pitchers and players from the Phoenixville Area High School team, the A’s fought their way into the playoffs. Moses, Fina, Pilewski, Mike Jones and Wieland stepped up with some solid pitching during the summer schedule to help the club qualify for the playoffs.
Manager Jack Sturgeon guided the team along with assistant coaches Geoff Thomas, the pitching coach, and Craig Jeffers.