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O’SHEA HAS TRIO OF FIVES IN LANCASTRA VICTORY
VERETEAN 3B HAS FIVE HITS, RUNS, & RBI EACH IN SMASHING BRITTANIA HOME WIN

LANCASTER, PENN. (May 9, 1878) - Lancastra Britannia & Scranton B.C. played the second game of their season-opening series at James Buchanan Field in Southeast Pennsylvania on Thursday, and the hosts won it in a romp:

Lancastra wasted no time in putting Scranton to the sword, scoring five times in the opening inning. They grew the lead to 12-0 before the visitors scored their only runs of the game in T7, and then Lancastra responded with eight more runs over their last two times at bat to pour on the pain.

The hosts had some fine performances with the bat…

• LBR 2B Lennon Haley: 3/7 (all 1B), 1 R, 1 RBI
• LBR 1B Joseph Lindblom: 4/6 (all 1B), 1 R, 5 RBI
• LBR C William Zimmerman: 3/6 (2B), 2 R, 2 RBI

…but far and away their star of the day was sixth-year 3B Andrew O’Shea:

• B1: 2-run Single past 2B off W. Clayberg
• B3: Reached via 1-run Error by 3B L. Freeman (R)
• B4: Single past 2B off W. Clayberg (R)
• B6: Leadoff Triple to RCF off J. Feller (R)
• B7: 1-run Single past 1B off J. Feller (R)
• B8: 2-run Triple to RF off J. Feller (R)
• TOTAL: 5/6 (2 3B), 5 R, 5 RBI, 106 GMSC

For O’Shea, it was the third five-hit game of his career and his first since July 16, 1875 against Susquehanna. Compared to his other two five-hit games today’s out was far superior, the best game of O’Shea’s career.

Lancastra is starting 1878 off quite right, with wins of 14-3 and 20-2 against visiting Scranton over their opening two games.