Baseball
Unadilla Valley 9, Oxford 7
OXFORD – A five-run first inning catapulted UV into the lead Wednesday as the Storm regrouped from its poor showing Monday.
Brandon Kuhn hit a two-run double in the opening frame, and Kurt Haycook followed with an RBI single.
Oxford chopped three runs off of that deficit in its opening at-bat. Andrew Golden tripled in one run, and Matt Moore along with Kevin Davis drove in runs. The Blackhawks, though, didn’t score again until the bottom of the seventh.
“There are a lot of even teams in our league, and it’s the team that puts seven innings together that will win games,” said Oxford coach Chris Palmer. “UV put a couple of guys on base early in the game, and was able to capitalize.”
Moore had two hits and drove in three runs to lead the Blackhawks. Richard Ryan added two hits and one RBI.
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Mason Alford (W) and Kyle King. Andrew Golden, Kevin Davis (6), Richard Ryan (7) and Matt Moore. Doubles: (UV) Brandon Kuhn. Triples: (O) Golden, Moore.
Hamilton 5, S-E 4 (9 innings)
HAMILTON – Hamilton rallied against Sherburne-Earlville not once, but twice in Wednesday’s non-league win in nine innings.
The Emerald Knights scored three times in the bottom of the seventh to force extra innings. Zach Dowe’s RBI single with two outs tied the game at 3-3. Hamilton seemingly earned the walk-off win when one of its batters was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded. The home plate umpire, however, did not award the batter first base, and instead called a dead ball explaining that the batter did not make an effort to avoid the pitch. S-E pitcher Matt Crandall then recorded the third out to force an eighth inning.
S-E gained a one-run lead in the top of the ninth when Mick Khoury scored on a wild pitch.
Hamilton answered right back and scored the winner on Nick Fry’s single to right field. “Really, they were probably destined to win this game,” said S-E coach Brian Hicks. “The hit the heck of the ball, and they probably made seven or eight unbelievable plays with their gloves.”
Felix Rodriguez doubled twice and drove in one run to lead S-E, who had a three-game winning streak snapped. “It hurts (the loss) because there were some bragging rights at stake,” Hicks said, noting the local rivalry. “But it’s a non-league game and means nothing toward sectional points. We just have to jump on Waterville tomorrow.”
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Matt Smith, Matt Crandall (7, L) and Mick Khoury. B. Harris, B. Yacanone (7, W) and C. Browning. Doubles: (H) L. Bailey, B. Yacanone, B. Bellinger. (SE) Felix Rodriguez (2).
Brookfield 12, Otselic Valley 1, game 1
Otselic Valley 5, Brookfield 3, game 2
BROOKFIELD – Otselic Valley salvaged a doubleheader split with Brookfield Tuesday getting a one-hitter from left-handed senior hurler Trevor Marston.
Jonathon Liuzzo broke up a scoreless game hitting a two-out, three-run homer in the top of the second inning. After Brookfield tied the game with three runs in the bottom half of the second, the Vikes took the lead for good in the fourth. Catcher Howard Straight had a two-out RBI single in the fourth, and Waturu Sakamoto added insurance with another two-out RBI basehit, that one coming in the fifth frame. “We were a completely different team from the first game (a 12-1 loss),” said OV coach Jacob Preston. “Our heads were in the game right from the get-go, and it paid off.”
In the opening contest, Brookfield’s Jake Cowen allowed just one run over four innings in a blowout win. The Beavers’ Preston Reilly had three RBI, and Cody Beeching drove in two.
Sakamoto doubled and drove in OV’s lone run.
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Trevor Marston (W) and Howard Straight. Austin Mead (L), Wade King (4), Jake Cowen (5) and Cody Beeching, Walker Reed (4). Doubles: (OV) Connor Smith
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Jake Cowen (W), Austin Mead (5) and Cody Beeching. Jonathon Liuzzo (L), Travis Sheldon (3) and Howard Straight. Doubles: (OV) Waturu Sakamoto; (B) Justin Mead. Triples: (B) Cowen.
Harpursville 8, Afton 6
AFTON – Harpursville scored five runs in the second to build a five-run lead on Afton in Wednesday’s victory over the Crimson Knights.
Brendan Van Etten’s two-run single in the second inning highlighted the inning, and he finished with three RBI.
Mark Viviano had two hits for Afton and drove in three runs. Connor Graven-Briggs, making his first pitching appearance this season, tossed 4 1-3 innings of relief striking out two and giving up just one run.
Afton (3-8) hosts Oxford on Friday.
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Arnold (W), Koranka (6) and Devon Dean. Josh Davy (L), Connor Graven-Briggs (3) and Josh Austin, Ben Shearer (6). Doubles: (H) Anthony Gransgruber, Dylan Andrews. (A) Briggs.
