For the second time in three days, Mother Nature affected New York Collegiate Baseball League action.
The Western Division game between the first-place Hornell Dodgers and Lake Ontario Ridgemen was stopped in the eighth inning. Geneva’s Red Wings defeated the Utica Brewers in the first of a double-header, but the night cap yielded to thunder and lightning.
Geneva kept its playoff hopes alive with a victory in the opener at Donovan Stadium.
Matt Hockenberry (Temple) went the distance picking up the win as Geneva downed Utica, 5-1. Hockenberry struck out two, walked three and scattered eight hits over the scheduled seven-inning game.
Chris Ray (Alvernia) and Robbie Enslen (Oakland) scored in the sixth as Geneva took a lead it never surrendered. Zachary Lander (SUNY Brockport) added insurance in the seventh with a pinch-hit single scoring Ray and Leon Stimpson (Alvernia).
Stimpson and Paul Cotler (Penn) each had a pair of hits for the Red Wings.
Kenny Durling (Misericordia) and Steve Negron (Miami Dade) contributed two hits each in a losing effort.
Utica led the second game 4-0.
Jordan Doherty (Mt. Vernon Nazarene) and Cayden Cuniff (East Texas Baptist) sparked the Ridgemen who scored once in the second, fifth and sixth and added two in the third for a 5-1 lead over the Dodgers in the eighth.
Cuniff doubled home Josh Davis (Whitworth) in the second. His suicide squeeze bunt plated Nick Flanagan (Martin Methodist) in the fifth.
Doherty singled and eventually scored on an infield hit by Joel Belk (Azusa Pacific) in the third. Doherty walked and came home on a wild pitch in the sixth.
Make-up dates to be announced.
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