Sidwell did a good job hitting against an impressive St. James team. While St. James has been thin in recent years, this year's team had a number of good hitters and a solid defense. While the Quakers easily out hit St. James, the Quaker defense was porous and allowed eight unearned runs in addition to the five St. James earned -- and 13 runs proved too much for Sidwell to overcome.

After St. James put up a big, six-run inning in the sixth to take the lead by three, Sidwell approached its last turn at-bat with reasonable confidence given the strength of hitters it had coming up. Justin Margolin led off the inning with a hit. He was followed by Matt Romansky, who hit a long fly ball but one that was easily tracked down by the center fielder. Next, Chase Migas reached base on an infield single, and Sam Lipscomb knocked one into the outfield for his fourth hit of the day. Matt Sarro pushed a run across with a ground ball but was unfortunately put out at first for the second out of the inning, bringing Luke Friedman, the tying run, to the plate with two outs and runners on second and third. After Friedman drew to a 3-1 count, Coach Mormino called a conference and told Friedman that the team would be much better off if he hit rather than walked so that he would be able to steal second and move the tying run into scoring position, rather than being stuck at first with the bases loaded and no where to go. On the next pitch, Friedman turned on a high and inside pitch and ripped it down the line for an easy stand-up double, drawing the game to within one. St. James then boldly intentionally walked Derek Levinson, putting the go-ahead run on first and bringing Shane Tierney to the plate. On a 1-1 count, Sidwell initiated a double-steal with both runner getting great jumps. Tierney hit a low line drive screaming over the second baseman with Friedman rounding third and Levinson passing second....unfortunately, the ball carried all the way to the right fielder who was planted exactly in the line of the ball's flight. He nabbed the line drive and extinguished Sidwell's rally just in time.

The most disappointed player of the day had to be Tierney. He pitched well, only allowing three earned runs over four innings -- which should have been good enough to earn him the win. Additionally, he went 0-5 at the plate despite smashing the ball (line drive out to second base in the third, hard ground ball hit right at the second baseman in the fourth, hard shot into the six hole in the sixth, and his best hit of the day -- the line out to end the game). "It was the best 0-5 day I've ever had," he remarked later.