Evening Sun Report
Baseball
Ilion 1, Sherburne-Earlville 0
ILION – Sherburne-Earlville dropped back a game in the Center State Conference losing a pitching duel Thursday afternoon.
S-E starter Matt Smith was the hard-luck loser giving up just three hits. He struck out four and walked one. His counterpart, Brian Maine, gave up seven S-E hits and struck out six. “He threw wonderful today, and he only used 78 pitches,” said S-E coach Brian Hicks of Smith. “I bet he’s given up only seven hits all season.”
The Tigers manufactured the lone run of the game with fundamental baseball. Tim Nicolette led off the game with single, moved to second on a stolen base, was sacrificed to third, and scored on an RBI groundout.
S-E left 10 runners on base and had runners in scoring position multiple times. “They very seldom make errors and are just that good,” Hicks said of Ilion. “We had at least two good hits that were robbed after they made great plays.”
S-E hosts Hamilton today.
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Ilion 100 000 x 1 3 1
Matt Smith (L) and Jake Bohnert. Brian Maine (W) and Ryan Gookins. Doubles: (SE) Bohnert, Cole Hodges.
Milford 9, G-MU 7
MILFORD – Milford gave up an early 4-1 lead to G-MU, but reclaimed the advantage with three runs in the bottom of the sixth to turn back the Raiders Thursday.
Peyton Griffith gave up just three hits in six innings to pick up the win. Griffith also had a double and triple.
“Our youth shows through a lot, but we competed well today,” said G-MU coach Rick Mohrein. “Milford leads on the other side of the league and hasn’t lost a game yet.”
DeMario Reed scored three runs and stole five bases to lead the Raiders, who host Richfield Springs on Monday.
G-MU 100 410 1 7 4 6
Milfd. 400 023 x 9 8 2
Peyton Griffith (W), K. Musser (7,sv) and Elliott. DeMario Reed (L) and Michael Lewis. Doubles: (M) Griffith. Triples: (M) Griffith, Thorn.
Hancock 10, Greene 1
GREENE – Hancock starting pitcher Cole Duston allowed just three infield hits to Greene Thursday, and the Wildcats made it a lopsided final with six runs in the top of the seventh.
“We had two errors and two batter hit by a pitch, and that compounded things in the last inning,” said Greene coach Steve Burghardt. “It’s been tough the last two days with the way we’re swinging the bats. We’re putting too much pressure on our defense and pitching.”
Todd Wainman had three hits to lead Hancock. Greene (5-7) is at Bainbridge-Guilford today.
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Gre. 000 010 0 1 3 5
Cole Duston (W) and Waderson. Lane Whittaker (L), Jeff Carlin (4) and Kurt Bartholomew. Doubles: (H) Warren Drake, Duston. Triples: (H) Tom Banicky, Wagerson.
Softball
Sherburne-Earlville 10, Ilion 6
ILION – After nearly breaking through with its first win the previous two games, Sherburne-Earlville got over the winless hump Thursday defeating Ilion.
The Marauders (1-7) had a season-high 17 hits led by 3-for-3 nights from Destinie Holmquist and Chelsea Beaudoin. Brooke Wright had two hits – one a triple – and two RBI, while Desiree Brown and Cori Bergeron also had a pair of basehits.
Bergeron scatted eight hits and struck out three for the victory.
S-E 301 030 3 10 17 3
Ilion 011 000 4 6 8 0
Cori Bergeron (W) and Shelby Scheffler. Rebecca Hale (L) and Janelle Risi. Doubles: (I) Nicole Doolen, Risi. Triples: (SE) Brooke Wright, Cori Bergeron.
Windsor 9, Norwich 1
NORWICH – Defending state champion Windsor pulled away from Norwich with two runs in each of the last three innings in Thursday’s road victory.
