By Anthony Moscaret, Director of Baseball Operations & Public Relations/Geneva
GENEVA, N.Y. – After being rained out on Friday night, the Geneva Twins and Geneva Red Wings were able to get underway tonight to open the 2013 New York Collegiate Baseball League (NYCBL) season at McDonough Park. The Red Wings used strong pitching and recorded double digit hits (11) to defeat the Twins, 11-3.
Tommy Bergjans (Haverford College) threw five innings of no-hit ball to earn his first win of the season for the Red Wings. He struck out six while allowing just two walks. Red Wings’ relief pitcher Robert Grippo (Bergen CC) continued the no-hitter in the sixth, before the Twins were able to get on the board in the bottom of the seventh inning. Grippo allowed two hits, three runs (one earned) and struck out one in two innings of work.
Nick Hedge (Penn State University) was tagged with the loss while striking out five, allowing two unearned runs, in five innings of work while scattering four hits.
The Twins (0-1) manufactured three runs on two hits, while drawing two walks and being hit by pitches twice. As a team the Twins left five runners on base during the contest.
The Red Wings (1-0) jumped on the board in the top of the third to make it 1-0. Catcher Rob Winemiller (Case Western Reserve University) reached first on an error by the Twins’ shortstop. Teammate Vernon Trice III (Oglethorpe University) singled to right field, allowing Winemiller to move second with two outs in the inning. Left fielder Zak Worsley (North Park University) drove in Winemiller and moved Trice to third as he singled to right. Worsley would steal second to give the Wings runners in scoring position. Cam Stimpson (Monroe CC) would draw a two out walk to load the bases.
In the top of the fourth, Richard Moses II (Neumann University) got the Wings started as he singled into center field, he later then was moved to second on a sacrifice by teammate Scott Shields (Cuesta College). Moses advanced to third on a error by the catcher, which then allowed third baseman Casey Fox (Haverford College) to drive him in with a sacrifice fly to center field and put the Red Wings up 2-0.
Fox opened the top of the seventh with a double to left field and then moved to third on a sacrifice hit by Winemiller. Second baseman Dustin Stuck (Alvernia College) drove in Fox from third with a single to give the Red Wings a 3-0 lead. Worsley would pick up his second single and RBI of the game as he drove in Stuck from second and moved Trice III to second after he walked. Stimpson drew a four pitch walk to load the bases for the Red Wings before Andrew Gronski’s (Case Western Reserve University) sacrifice drove in Trice III from third to put them up 5-0.
The Twins cut the lead to two in the bottom of the seventh as catcher John Lynn (Wagner College) put an end to the Red Wings’ no-hitter has he reached first on an infield single to second. Centerfielder Dave Saluga (Youngstown State University) reached base after being hit by a pitch. Tommy Mazurkiewicz (Wagner College) reached on a throwing error by the third baseman, which would allow Lynn to score and move Saluga and himself into scoring position. Teammate Travis Rosenwinkel (Niagara College) would claim the teams’ second hit with a double that split the left-center field gap and allowed both Mazurkiewicz and Saluga to score to make it a 5-3 game.
The Red Wings reclaimed the lead as they posted two runs in the eighth and four more in the ninth to give them an 11-3 lead. The Twins’ bullpen allowed seven hits, nine runs (eight earned), seven walks and two strike outs in three innings of work.
The Twins head to Olean, New York tomorrow to take on the Olean Oilers at 5 p.m. The team is back home on Wednesday, June 12, to face the Niagara Power at 7 p.m.
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