May 11, 2008 04:00 am
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SARANAC -- John Canning, who had two hits earlier in the game, squeezed home the game-winning run in the bottom of the sixth inning Saturday to give Saranac a 3-2 win over Seton Catholic in Champlain Valley Athletic Conference baseball.
Kalob Drollette struck out seven and walked one in pitching into the seventh inning to get the win for the Division I- leading Chiefs (7-2). Jordan Keysor pitched the seventh for the save.
Tanner Lecuyer fanned six and walked six in going the first five innings for the Knights (5-4) and Matt Seymour took the loss in relief.
With the score tied, at 2-all, in the bottom of the sixth, pinch-hitter Jeremy Favaro singled and pinch-hitter Shawn Tedford followed with a hit-and-run single to right. Canning then executed his suicide-squeeze to plate Favaro.
The Knights got the tying run on second base in the top of the seventh. Left fielder Canning and center fielder Cody Wood, who earlier in the game made a nice running catch in the left-center gap, collided while chasing a fly ball and Canning held on for the final out as both players fell to the ground.
The Chiefs scored a run in the first and added another in the third.
Seton Catholic, however, tied it in the fifth on Joe Champagne's double, Matt Seymour's RBI double and Joe Clauss' RBI single.
"It was a real good game," said Saranac coach Frank Trudeau. "Both starting pitchers did a nice job, as well as the defense behind them.
"A bounce here or there, the game could have gone either way. Seton fought back hard to tie the game and we had a nice suicide squeeze to win it."
Saranac 3, Seton Catholic 2
Seton Catholic 000 020 0 -- 2 4 1
Saranac 101 001 x -- 3 5 1
Lecuyer, M. Seymour (6) and Champagne. K. Drollette, Keysor (7) and Eggleston. WP- K. Drollette. LP- M. Seymour. Sv- Keysor. 2B- Desroches (Sar), Champagne (SC), M. Seymour (SC).
AuSable Valley 12,
Peru 5
PERU -- Sophomore Alex LaFountain struck out nine in going the distance for his first varsity win and helped himself at the plate with a triple.
The Patriots broke a 5-all tie with five runs in the top of the fifth inning.
Kyle Fuller and Jordan Bezio led AuSable Valley's offense with a single and double each.
Aaron Tenbuuren rapped a double and single for the Indians, while Alec Currier contributed two singles and Andrew McCormick, a double.
Peru, which won two games earlier this week, had a tough day in the field with seven errors.
AuSable Valley 12, Peru 5
AuSable Valley 211 152 0 -- 12 6 2
Peru 003 200 0 -- 5 8 7
LaFountain and Douglass. Leta, Bishop (5), Kelly (6) and Tenbuuren. WP- LaFountain. LP- Leta. 2B- K. Fuller (AVC), Bezio (AVC), Tenbuuren (P), McCormick (P). 3B- LaFountain (AVC).
Plattsburgh 14,
Lake Placid 3
PLATTSBURGH -- The Hornets (6-2) scored six runs in the first inning and didn't look back.
Pat Shaughnessy, Gino Blando and Cody Howard all rapped out two hits each for PHS, with Blando and Howard each getting a double and two RBI.
Jared Murphy, Andrew Manabat and Eamon Case chipped in with doubles in support of winning pitcher Russell Merrill, who allowed one run in five innings.
Four players had a hit apiece for the Blue Bombers, with Jim Kordziel rapping a two-run single in the seventh inning. Lake Placid hurt its cause with eight errors.
Plattsburgh 14, Lake Placid 3
Lake Placid 000 010 2 -- 3 4 8
Plattsburgh 603 212 x -- 14 14 2
Reid, Baird (2), Bazzicalupo (6) and Duffy. Merrill, Robertson (6) and Hatch. WP- Merrill. LP- Reid. 2B- Blando (PHS), Howard (PHS), Murphy (PHS), Manabat (PHS), Case (PHS).
OFA Wooden bat
Lowville 8, B'town 5
B'town 6, Salmon R. 2
OGDENSBURG -- Brett Palmer tossed a seven-hitter, struck out five and walked one to lead Beekmantown to a win over Salmon River in its second game in the Annual Jim Pinkerton Wooden Bat Tournament at Ogdensburg Free Academy.
Allen Fessette rapped a two-run single in a four-run sixth inning that broke a 2-all tie.
In the Eagles' loss to Lowville, David Provost allowed seven hits, fanned four and walked two in taking the setback.
Beekmantown hurt itself in the field as six errors hurt its chances during the contest.
"Errors cost us in their three-run first inning and in every inning they scored, we made at least one error," said Eagles' coach Jim Knight, Jr.
"We hit the ball -- we just didn't catch the breaks they did."
Andrew Price rapped out three hits and Matt Trombly added two for the Eagles
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Lowville 8, Beekmantown 5
Lowville 310 102 0 -- 8 7 1
Beekmantown 111 002 0 -- 5 6 6
Roes and Hamlin. Provost and Trombly. WP- Roes. LP- Provost. 2B- Price (Beek). 3B- Roes (L), Trombly (Beek). HR- Eillen (L).
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Beekmantown 6, Salmon River 2
Salmon River 010 001 0 -- 2 7 2
Beekmantown 001 014 0 -- 6 6 1
Durant and Ghostlaw. Palmer and Trombly. WP- Palmer. LP- Durant. 3B- Plante (SR).
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