In the first inning Eddie Hagen led off by getting hit by the pitcher. Unfortunately, a sacrifice bunt backfired and resulted in a double play. In the 2nd inning Tim Cotter got on via Hanover Park's only error. Matt DeWald singled to put Cotter in scoring position. Again a sacrifice backfired as Cotter was forced at third. Another double play ended the Summit Threat.

Hanover Park scored its first run in the bottom of the 2nd with a solo home run. Hanover Park began the 3rd with 3 consecutive singles, and the situation looked grim. Hagan pulled it all together and got the next batter to ground out to 1st base and then struck out the #4 and #5 batters to end the inning with only 2 runs. Hanover Park made the score 4-0 on a double and a 1 out single but Summit turned a nice 4-6-3 double play to end the inning.

Summit scored a run in the 5th when Ben Roessle got the inning started with single and Kenny Miller singled to score him. In the top of the 6th Hanover Park got its 5th run of a pair of singles and a sacrifice fly. Summit did the same in the bottom of the inning (singles by Evan Chang and Nick Orestanio, Sacrifice fly by Cotter). Tom Casey came on in relief of Hagan, who had also pitched two innings the day before in the Parsippany Hills game. Casey put down the Hornets 1-2-3 and HP did the same to Summit.

Eddie Hagan pitched his best 6 innings of the season and never let things get out of control.

Summit now finds itself in the position of needing to win 6 of its next 8 game if they are to qualify for the state tournament, by the cutoff time of Midnight May 8th.