Resilience is a unique characteristic which some teams just seems to possess.

Despite trailing Valley West by two runs heading into the fifth inning, Tamaqua's offense exploded for a dozen runs in the final two innings en route to a come from behind 14-7 victory in the District 18 10-11 year old tournament.Tamaqua scored three of its six runs with two outs in the squad's big fifth inning.Brian Milot is Tamaqua's lead off hitter who knocked in two crucial runs during the fifth inning rally. Milot had three hits in the contest. Aaron Coccio, who bats behind Milot in the number two slot, had a big game as well, contributing three hits and scoring three times."When you get that top of the order going it picks everyone up," said Tamaqua head coach Mike Van Buskirk. "They're confident even with two strikes putting the ball in play that puts pressure on the defense."Valley West's Marcus Labuda hit an opposite field solo shot in the bottom of the inning, but Valley West couldn't seem to string base runners together to chip away at the Tamaqua lead."We have a good little team, they've been playing together for a few years now," explained Valley West head coach Jack Melusky. "We lost to a very good and well coached Tamaqua team. Last year we were very competitive, and one of these years we'll get over the hump. Everyone on the team is friends with each other. We've been playing baseball for about 90 days together now and it's been great."Van Buskirk is very proud of the way his Tamaqua team played and supported one another throughout the tournament."They're very resilient. They always keep coming back. When someone gets down, someone else is right there to pick him up. I was impressed with the whole team. All of the kids just keep fighting for each other. We had outstanding pitching, I'm very happy with the way everything went."The Tamaqua coach acknowledged his team's effort to win and have fun."We've had a lot of practices. We practice two hours before every game and four times a week. The kids are into it and coming excited to play every day and it makes a big difference when the kids want to play."Tamaqua now advances to the Section 6 playoffs and will be the host team. It will face Pennridge Thursday at 7:30 p.m.Tamaqua 101 066 - 14 16 1Valley West 310 030 - 7 8 1Wickersham, Agosti (5) and Steigerwalt; Labuda, Melusky (5), Lewis (5), Skuba (6) and Kilker. W - Wickersham. L - Labuda. HR: Valley West - Labuda (5th inning, none on).