The Deltaville Deltas baseball team continued its best start in five years of Southern Virginia Baseball League play last weekend, defeating the Peninsula Pirates by scores of 5-4 and 2-0 in a pair of down-to-the-wire games.

With the wins, the Deltas (7-1 overall, 6-1 league) remain one game behind the undefeated York Cannons (7-0 league) in league standings.

The tight standings make this weekend even more important for Deltaville. The Deltas take on the Cannons in a three-game series, starting in Deltaville on Saturday night with a 6 o’clock double-header at Deltaville Ballpark. The Deltas travel to Charles Brown Park in Yorktown to visit the Cannons on Sunday at 4 p.m.

Delta 5, Pirates 4

On Saturday night in Deltaville, the Deltas built an early 5-1 lead, and hung on to win at the end, 5-4.

After each team scored a run in the second inning, the Deltas put together a four-run fourth inning, capped by a Ryan Wiggins two-run single.

The Pirates tested the depth of th...