BY PAUL GOTHAM
PBR NEW YORK CONTRIBUTOR 

Sam Kistler plated pinch runner Max Album with the go-ahead run in the sixth inning and Sutherland claimed the Section V Class A2 title with a 2-1 victory over the Aquinas Li'l Irish.

The senior first baseman connected on a low curveball for a base hit through a drawn infield.

It was all that Sutherland starter and tournament MVP, Max Carver, needed. The senior left-hander went the distance, and Sutherland claimed its 13 sectional title in program history.

Carver worked in and out of trouble throughout the contest allowing the leadoff man aboard in four separate innings and stranding at least one runner in every frame.

He stranded a runner on third in the first, left a pair on the corners in the second and short-circuited a one-out AQ rally in the third and a two-out surge in the fourth.

Sutherland got on the scoreboard first.

Nate Richardson led the third with a double and moved 90 feet on a Layton Cummings sacrifice bunt. Jack Zielinski walked to put runners on the corners, and Will Marsh delivered with a RBI sacrifice fly.

Aquinas knotted the score in the fifth. Trey Brown started with a double. Mikey Hernandez followed with a Texas Leaguer to shallow center field, and Tim Proud plated Brown with a two-out base hit.

Carver tripled to lead the bottom of the sixth before giving way to Album as a pinch runner.

Aquinas threatened in the seventh when James Huber tripled off the base of the wall in right field. The senior first baseman was left stranded.

Sutherland (14-9) will play the A1 champion Canandaigua Braves in the regional qualifier. The teams split a pair of games earlier in the season. A 7 p.m. first pitch is scheduled Tuesday at Dwyer Stadium.