By Paul Casey Gotham
WEBSTER, N.Y. -Had Dave Brust been told prior to Wednesday’s game that his team would limit the Hornell Dodgers to four hits through nine innings, the Webster Yankee skipper would have liked his team’s chances. Webster pitching did limit the second-place Dodgers to just four hits and three runs through nine. But Hornell did their damage in the tenth.
Joe Lombardi (LeMoyne) rapped a two-out double in the tenth as the Hornell Dodgers defeated the Webster Yankees 5-3 in New York Collegiate Baseball League action at Basket Road Field, Wednesday.
Hornell’s win came after the Yankees sought to come-from-behind for the second time in as many nights.
Trailing by three after three, the pinstripes battled back. One of Tuesday night’s heroes, Matt Delewski (Toledo), led the fourth with a base on balls and moved up ninety feet when Matt Francis (U of R) singled to right field. Matt Boulter (So. New Hampshire) advanced the runners with a ground ball to the right side of the infield. Blake Beemer (Ball State) plated Delewski with a ground ball in the hole at short.
Webster tied the game in the fifth. Cory Goeggleman (Waynesburg State) worked a one-out walk and used some crafty base-running to move to third on a single to center by Wes Winkle (Ball State). As Kyle O’Boyle (Saginaw Valey St.) charged Winkle’s single, Goeggleman slowed up at second. When the center-fielder relaxed, Goeggleman switched gears and took off for third. Winkle advanced to second on the throw. Goeggleman scored on a ground ball by Delewski, and Winkle scored on an error in the infield.
But that is all Webster would get.
Jason Gardner (Tusculum) struck out four and walked one over seven innings of work. After surrendering three runs on three hits in the third, Gardner held the Dodgers without a base hit for four stanzas.
Webster threatened in the ninth when Ollie Bertrand (Flagler) reached base when his ground ball was mishandled. Tyler Grogg (Toledo) moved him up with a sacrifice bunt, but Bertrand was thrown out at third on a later play.
Winkle finished with two hits.
Webster rallied from a four-run deficit to defeat Alfred 13-6 on Tuesday.
Webster falls to 14-15 on the season, and more importantly, the Yankees fall a game and a half off the pace for the NYCBL playoffs.
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