Baseball
Chenango Forks 6, Norwich 5 (8 innings)
CHENANGO FORKS – Chenango Forks’ perfectly executed suicide squeeze bunt in the bottom of the eighth scored the winning run Wednesday against visiting Norwich.
Norwich made up a 5-2 deficit scoring two in the sixth, and tying the contest on Mike Moon’s solo home run in the seventh.
Forks’ offense in the eighth began with Tom Dybas’ lead-off double. Kevin Hamilton sacrificed Dybas over, and Matt LeVasseur delivered the game-winning bunt. “It was just a perfectly executed play,” said Norwich coach John Martinson of the suicide squeeze.
Tim Clark, Christian Hotaling and Mike Moon had two hits apiece for Norwich. Hotaling added a solo round-tripper in the fifth that began the comeback. “I proud of the way the guys fought back from three runs down,” Martinson said, who also lauded Moon’s complete-game pitching effort. “I can’t say enough good things about the job Moon did. We just had some crucial fielding errors, and we’ll struggle in these close games until we take care of the defense.”
Norwich (0-3) hosts Chenango Valley today.
NHS 100 012 10 5 9 4
CFks 102 020 01 6 6 1
Mike Baggerman (W), Tom Dybas (6, W) and B.J. Smith. Mike Moon (L) and Thomas Kalicicki. Doubles: (N) Tim Clark, (CF) Dybas. Triples: (CF) Matt LeVasseur. HR: (N) Christian Hotaling, Mike Moon. (CF) Mike Jeske.
Ilion 5, S-E 4
ILION – Ilion scored the winning run in the bottom of the seventh to hand S-E a tight loss Wednesday.
The Marauders knotted the score in the top half of the seventh when Jake Sampson reached base on an outfield error, and moved to third on the play. He scored on Nate Kline’s RBI single.
Joe Gantz doubled for Ilion to lead off the last at-bat. Jeff Eysaman laid down a bunt on the next play, and Gantz came around to score on a throwing error.
Kline had two hits and Joe Moses added two hits for S-E.
S-E 020 100 1 4 6 1
Ilion 022 000 1 5 8 2
Ryan Risi (W) and Dan Crim. Phil Price, Joe Moses (3), Caleb Brown (7, L) and Caleb Brown, Jake Sampson (7). Doubles: (SE) Joe Moses, (I) Joe Gantz.
Hancock 19, B-G 11
HANCOCK – Hancock benefited from 10 base on balls, four errors, and four hit batsmen en route to a victory over visiting B-G Wednesday.
“We didn’t throw strikes, and when we did, they hit the ball,” said B-G coach Pete Mansheffer. “We made some defensive mistakes, but if are taking a positive out of this, we did swing the bats well.”
Dustin Rutz had two hits and four RBI, and Travis Colburn contributed four RBI. Patrick Mertz went 3-for-3 for the Bobcats.
B-G (2-5) hosts Afton today.
B-G 220 002 5 11 13 4
Hanc. 370 432 x 19 10 1
Cody Satkowski (W), Cody Wellman (6), Jimmy Andersen (7) and Eric Micks. Mark Buchanan (L), Eric Oefelein (2), Patrick Mertz (4) and Justin Miller. Doubles: (BG) Dustin Rutz, Buchanan, Oefelein, Mertz. (H) Cody Wellman, Nils Shales, Darrin Keesler. HR: (BG) Rutz.
Softball
S-E 4, Ilion 1
ILION – Playing just its second game this season, Sherburne-Earlville was sharp in the field, and put three runs on the board in the third inning to take command of Wednesday’s contest.
