300 with 14 RBIs and a team-best 18 runs scored. He recorded an A-K Valley-best 1.29 ERA: nine earned runs in 49 innings with 53 strikeouts and 18 walks. It was a great feeling.”īrannagan finished the season with a team-best four victories. It was just a great win for us, we wanted to score more runs, but we did what we needed to do to advance.

When I got to the fifth inning, I felt I could finish it, but you never know. “That was probably the best I felt for a while,” Brannagan said.

He also collected the hit that drove in the winning run in a 1-0 Lancers victory. He went the distance, surrendering just two hits while walking none and striking out 11. He was clutch again, showing his skills as one of the Alle-Kiski Valley’s top pitchers. Just like that, the Lancers were on to the next round.įast forward to May 17, and Brannagan was on the mound for a WPIAL Class 3A baseball first-round contest against McGuffey. In February, Deer Lakes trailed Blackhawk by one point in the final seconds of a WPIAL Class 4A first-round basketball game at Deer Lakes High School.īrannagan found himself in possession of the ball, and he launched a 3-point shot that found nothing but net. Justin Brannagan had a propensity this year for coming up big in clutch playoff scenarios. 2022 Valley News Dispatch Baseball All-Stars

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