Robert Jeffrey

Sun Sports Contributor

Voces’s shut out leads to 5-0 win over Post 1194

NORWICH – Tommy Voces’ complete game shutout performance over Hillcrest Post 1194 propelled the Chenango Hellcats to a win on Friday, June 16.

The Hellcats displayed a sound defense anchored by the aforementioned work on the mound, who threw all seven innings of play, while only allowing two hits, five walks and six strikeouts on the evening.

However, with Voce on the mound, the Hellcats defense despite its two errors in the field in game created just enough offense to come away with the win.

With the game remaining scoreless after the first inning and a half, the Hellcats line-up got to work in the bottom of the second delivering all five of their runs in the game.

The Hellcats recorded three hits in the game with Voce helping his cause going 2 for 2 with a walk and KJ Ives picked up one hit going 1 for 2 with a walk. Delivering with an RBI each in the ballgame were Jon Heggie, Paden Burlison, Connor Graven-Briggs and Cristobal Cabellero.

“Tommy Voce had a dominate performance with his complete game shut-out,” said Hellcats head coach Ben Barnes. “(Voce) had guys off balance all night.”

With a solid victory on Friday night, the Hellcats shifted their focus to Saturday’s game with Binghamton Post 80.

 

Hillcrest: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0– 0 2 2

Chenango: 0 5 0 0 0 0 X– 5 3 2

 

WP- Voce, LP- Retzlaff

Triples- (Hellcats): Ives

 

Binghamton Post 80 dominates Hellcats in 15-0 ballgame

NORWICH – It was a hard day to be a Hellcat on Saturday, June 17 as Binghamton Post 80 came to town, bringing with them some of the elite baseball players in all of the Southern Tier.

It was night and day for the Hellcats defense who committed six errors while giving up 12 hits in a shortened five inning game, the Hellcats would ultimately fall 15-0.

Binghamton struck first in the ballgame as they put up five runs in the opening frame. While the hometown Hellcats managed to silence Binghamton’s bats in the second inning, it wasn’t too long before Post 80 prodded their way to a 13 run lead – aided by a monstrous eight run, third inning.

Once again the Chenango Hellcat defense proved equal to the task, showing poise and defensive mastery as the sandwiched another shut-out inning in the fourth, however the Hellcats defense would give up a pair of runs in the fifth and final inning.

Post 80 came into the game as advertised as the premiere Southern Tier team, with players from a New York State Final Four baseball team in Seton Catholic Central, a perennial state championship caliber program year in and year out.

The star-studded line up of Binghamton provided hearty helpings of hits as all but one Binghamton player recorded a hit, and all but three players recorded at least one RBI in the game. Leo Gallagher threw a complete game shut-out allowing five hits, while striking out seven in the shortened five inning game as he claimed the win.