A couple teams looking to snap early-season losing streaks met up Wednesday at Salisbury High School.

Northwestern broke out of its funk with an 8-3 win behind some timely hitting and a strong pitching performance from senior Mason Vogwill."The past few games we dropped were all mental mistakes, errors that we had to work on in practice," said Vogwill. "Today, we didn't make as many errors. We swung the bats well today and put some runs on the board."The Tigers (2-3 overall, 2-3 Colonial League) snapped a three-game losing streak with the win.Vogwill scattered eight hits, while striking out three through six innings. He gave up a pair of hits to start the sixth, allowing one run, but the Falcons' next two runs were unearned. Two errors kept the Falcons alive in the sixth and allowed two more runs across."He's been throwing well," said Northwestern head coach Bob Fatzinger. "We haven't been playing the best defense, and that's cost us. Today, we put together a pretty good game. We swung the bat a little better today."Northwestern got a run in the first when the Schreiner brothers, Tyler and Trevor, hit back to back doubles for a 1-0 lead. They went up 2-0 in the third inning after Austin Stasko struck out, but reached base on a passed ball. He eventually scored on a fielder's choice."We aren't making any plays at crucial times," said Salisbury head coach Mike Pochron. "And every time we make a mistake, it scores. That's the way it seems. We should have a 1-2-3 inning, we get a ground ball, we get an errant throw, and that guy ends up scoring."Northwestern got another run in the fifth inning when Stasko reached based on an infield single before scoring on Tyler Schreiner's single to left field."We put our heads together at practice yesterday, and we said we've got to swing and can't keep taking pitches," said Tyler Schreiner, who went 3-for-4 with two RBIs. "We proved today that it worked."The Tigers blew the game open in the sixth inning.Zach Stanley, Isaac Fatzinger, Derek Holmes and Deven Bollinger hit consecutive singles to push across three runs.After an error should have gotten Salisbury starter Andrew Sukanick out of the inning, the Tigers added another run on a Tyler Schreiner single to right field for a 7-0 lead.The Falcons (2-4, 2-4) scored three runs on three hits, two errors and a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the sixth before Vogwill pitched out of the jam.The Tigers tacked on a run in the seventh on an RBI single from Holmes.WHEN WILL IT END... The loss was the fourth straight for Salisbury, which opened its season with wins over Northern Lehigh and Bangor.THAT'S A WRAP... Freshman Deven Bollinger got the ball for the seventh inning and closed out the win for Northwestern. He allowed an early single, but then struck out two of the next three batters.THE BUSY SEASON... The Tigers will play six games in eight days, including a trip to Wilson today before facing Blue Mountain on Saturday, Saucon Valley on Monday, Northern Lehigh on Tuesday and Moravian Academy on Wednesday. And it continues much that way through April. They won't go two days without a game until April 28-29.Northwestern 101 014 1 - 8 11 3Salisbury 000 003 0 - 3 8 4Vogwill, Bollinger (7) and Wiik; Sukanick, Irwin (6) and Dubois. W - Vogwill. L - Sukanick.