Cherry Hill Legion Baseball Falls to West Deptford [Photos]

The good news for Cherry Hill Post 372 was Alex Dimpter was pitching in top form Wednesday night.

The bad news was they were facing West Deptford's Chris Guinta, who strung together a three-hit shutout to help the host team beat Cherry Hill and advance to the District 4 Senior American Legion championship.

On an evening where neither team could muster much offense—there were only nine hits all game—West Deptford got back-to-back singles to open the fourth inning, then cracked the game open, getting a double from McCabe Reim that plated Troy Sieber and Nick DeFrank, and following it with David Strout's RBI single that drove in Tyler Maher.

It was all on Guinta after that, and the pitcher responded, putting Cherry Hill batters down in order in four different innings and not allowing an extra-base hit all night.

Dimpter was nearly as good, allowing just six hits and striking out five, and could've used some more defensive help, as Cherry Hill committed three errors in the field.

Alex Kramer and Will Allen had back-to-back singles for Post 372 in the second, but that was as close as Cherry Hill came to scoring.

West Deptford moves on to play Bordentown in the championship Thursday night, while Cherry Hill will face Hamilton in an elimination bracket game at 1 p.m.