By Paul Casey Gotham
WEBSTER, N.Y. — Bryan Galligan (Stonehill) held Webster to four hits and tossed a complete game as the Oneonta Outlaws took game one of the New York Collegiate Baseball League championship, 5-1 at Basket Road Field.
Galligan struck out nine.
The teams traded runs early.
Matt Chavez (San Francisco) led the second with a ground-rule deep to deep center field. One out later, Kaohu Gaspar (Fresno St.) brought home the run with a triple into left left center that just eluded the glove of Yankee fielder, Zach Bricknell (Young Harris)
Webster tied the game in the bottom of the frame when Bricknell drilled a two-out home run over the fence in right center field.
But that was all Webster managed.
The Outlaws took advantage of Webster miscues to score two in the sixth.
Chase Compton (Louisiana-Lafayette) and Chavez led the stanza with back-to-back singles. Greg Baggett (Bentley) delivered with a line drive to center. When the ball was mishandled, the runners moved to second and third. Chavez scored when Gaspar’s pop up in shallow left field was dropped.
Oneonta added a run in the seventh. Aaron Barbosa (Northeastern) and John Howell (Binghamton) rapped identical singles through the right side of the infield. Compton followed with a sacrifice fly to Bricknell.
The Outlaws took advantage of a bases loaded walk in the ninth for their final run.
Oneonta finished with five runs on 12 hits without any errors.
Webster scored one run on four hits.
Kevin Spatkowski (So. New Hampshire) had a pair of hits for the pinstripes.
Oneonta threatened to blow the game open in the fifth. With runners on second and third and one out, Barbosa had a sharply hit ball to third that Spatkowski cleanly fielded, looked back the runner and made the play at first. Howell followed with a sinking drive to right field on which Luis Diaz (North Carolina Central) made a diving catch to end the rally.
The series shifts to Oneonta on Tuesday for game two. Matt Jimenez (Mercyhurst) gets the start for Webster. First pitch is scheduled for 7 p.m. from Damaschke Field.
The game was a lot of fun to watch. Oneonta’s pitcher, while a bit short in stature, had a deceptive delivery – fastball and change were identical, giving the hitters a lot of trouble. That catch by Diaz in right was stellar as well.
is this a 3, 5 , or 7 game series?
three games… the league website’s coverage of this is beneath disgraceful, can’t even find the game on the scoreboard
Thanks Doug. I would have gone to the Webster Yankees site, but the colors there make it unreadable for me.
Is there a game tonight? I cant find any info.
Looks like Oneonta won the series last night – https://www.nycbl.com/News/Blog/tabid/56/EntryId/125/Oneonta-wins-NYCBL-championship.aspx
you webster guys beat us fair and square, so congratulations for going as far as you did… uh, was there really that big a crowd at oneonta, nearly 2,000 as the league website sez? … they didn’t draw crowds like that for the pro team there… see ya’ next year… doug smith of the niagara power
wow, just went to what looks like the league website and there’s a game story on the final game THAT DOESN’T EVEN GIVE THE SCORE!… man, no wonder most of our former Eastern Division bid us hasta la vista… it’s not like these things take a lot of time or money, and our here, at least, we’ve got people falling all over each other volunteering for duty on this helplessly-adrift ship…. doug smith, niagara power
2,000 is an accurate number. It was a great atmosphere. I apologize for the late posting. Article coming.
Doug,
Great to see you on what we call “The Pine.” Please come back often.
Here is my write-up on last night’s game: https://pickinsplinters.com/2011/08/03/webster-falls-as-oneonta-takes-nycbl-championship/
I could run a laundry list of excuses as to why this wasn’t posted sooner, but, eh, I figure no sense in bringing you to tears.
Back to the attendance – much credit goes to Steve Pindar and his staff who do an OUTSTANDING job. If you get a chance, support Steve’s pet project: https://robertos-kids.org/