Jordan AC Orioles veteran Zach Delp said the team always has had a “rear-view mirror mentality,” meaning it doesn’t allow one bad loss to affect the team going forward.

The Orioles lost to the Northern Yankees 4-0 in Game 4 of their Blue Mountain League baseball semifinal series on Thursday night and were one-hitted in the process.

But the team was determined to quickly pound that one out of their memory.

The Orioles scored four runs in the first inning, tacked on three in the second inning, and four more in the third, and were never in trouble in a 14-2 rout of the Yankees on Saturday afternoon at Egypt Memorial Park’s Curt Simmons Field.

The game ended in the bottom of the sixth via the 12-run rule and sent the Orioles to the BML’s championship series, where, for the third consecutive August, they will face the Limeport Bulls.

The best-of-five series begins 7 p.m. Sunday at Limeport Stadium. Game 2 is back at Simmons Field at 5:45 p.m. Tuesday.

The Orioles won the title in 2023, and the Bulls came back to win their fifth league title in nine seasons last year.

The Bulls swept the Limeport Dodgers in their semifinal series, finishing it off with a 13-1 rout on Thursday night, and the Orioles matched their rivals with an impressive display of power against the Yankees.

Jordan AC collected 13 hits, including eight for extra bases, led by Pat Kregeloh, who hit a three-run home run in the first inning and doubled twice later for six RBIs. He also scored three runs.

Trey Hinkle also homered and Delp delivered three doubles as the Orioles gave pitcher Joel Bartoni plenty of support.

“There’s always a lot of nerves going into a game like this, but when your team puts up four in the first, it makes it a lot easier,” Bartoni said. “It was a big shutdown in the second inning, and I was kind of coasting through as much as I could, trying to save pitches for the next series.”

Bartoni, an Emmaus High graduate, scattered seven hits. He walked one and struck out three in an 82-pitch outing. He benefited from a pair of double plays turned by his defense.

But the star of the game was Kregeloh, a Pleasant Valley High graduate, who is in his 10th BML season and first with the Orioles after spending the previous part of his career with the Northampton Giants.

“I came up there in some good spots and had some good pitches to hit, and I took advantage of it,” said Kregeloh, who had a record-breaking career at Shippensburg University and played professional ball in the independent Frontier League. “Our whole team put together a lot of good at-bats and fought hard today like we’ve been doing all year. The guy who pitched the other day for the Yankees [David Ciaccio] was in the zone the entire game and mixing his pitches really well. So that definitely motivated this team to come out swinging today and take advantage of pitches we can handle.”

Now, the task for the Orioles (25-8) is to handle a Bulls team that had the league’s best regular-season record at 21-6 and swept the Dodgers after a first-round bye.

Jordan AC player-manager AJ Brosious said the Blue Mountain League playoffs are a bridge from “nothing to the start of high school football.” He’s excited about the opportunity to fill the void in the dog days of summer with some quality amateur baseball in two traditional venues.

“The Yankees, we think, are the best batting team in the league, and the Bulls have the best pitching and defense, and we’re somewhere between them,” Brosious said. “We do both things very well. Maybe we don’t hit all of the bombs the Yankees hit and we don’t have the strikeouts the Bulls staff has, but we’re a little good in everything. We’ve got three or four really good starters and a good bullpen and really good hitters.”

Brosious remembers that his team won the first game in last year’s series and was up 1-0 going to the bottom of the sixth in Game 2 when a few balls that got lost in the Limeport lights led to a 2-1 Bulls victory to even the series, and the Orioles never recovered.

“Everything fell apart in Game 2 for us last year, but in hindsight, the Bulls were just the better team than us last year,” Brosious said. “Hopefully, things are a little different this year.”

Originally Published: August 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM EDT