Baseball: Delco starts Carpenter Cup with arm up on Delaware South

PHILADELPHIA — Looking down the Delaware County Carpenter Cup roster, the veteran experience of the squad is glaring. Nowhere is that more apparent than on the mound, producing a simple blueprint: When the team can account for a majority of a game with tenacious senior arms with the experience of leading a rare trip to Citizens Bank Park, wins naturally follow.

Delco executed that plan to perfection in its opener Tuesday, limiting Delaware South to three hits in a 7-3 win. The 27 outs were divvied up at nine each — to starter and nominal winning pitcher Ashton Raines of Strath Haven, Penncrest’s Rob Brown and Conestoga’s Tim Miller. The former two All-Central League arms were on the squad last year, part of a group that won two games and made the semis at Citizens Bank. That taste of success has the 12 seniors participating this year hungry to get back to the big-league park.

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