By RYAN PADDEN/Courtesy: HORNELLDODGERS.COM
HORNELL, N.Y. — On another hot night at Maple City Park the Hornell Dodgers fell 8-2 to the Wellsville Nitros finishing off the New York Collegiate Baseball League regular season for both teams.
The Nitros were first to put a run up on the board in the first. After the Nitros loaded the bases, Cole Tracy (Finger Lakes CC) knocked in an RBI with a single to give the Nitros the early lead 1-0.
In the fourth the Nitros added another run to their lead. Nitros pitcher Brett Migliore (Canisius) helped his own cause knocking in an RBI on a base hit to right bringing their lead to 2-0.
The Nitros kept widening the gap again in the fifth when Harry Montero Jr. (Bloomfield) homered to straight away center taking their lead to 3-0 over the Dodgers.
The Nitros continued to build their lead in the sixth tallying another three runs. Tyler Culpepper (Roane State CC) and Nicolas Varda (Ashland) both drove in an RBI a piece on back-to-back groundouts. Max Franzone (Dominican) rounded out the scoring with an RBI double widening the Nitros advantage to 6-0.
The Dodgers finally got on the board in the bottom end of the sixth. Connor Brandon (Concordia-Chicago) capitalized on a Nitros wild pitch to score and cut into the Nitros lead 6-1.
The Nitros offense kept the runs coming in the seventh. Migliore continued to help his cause knocking in a two runs off a two-out single to left.
In the bottom half of the seventh the Dodgers added a run of their own capitalizing on another Nitros wild pitch to score Andy Brahier (Wisconsin-Oshkosh) and taking the score to 8-2.
For the Dodgers Jack Trotman (St. John Fisher) was the only player with multiple hits going 2-for-4 at the plate on the night.
For the Nitros Migliore was perfect at the plate going 5-for-5 with three RBI while Tracy went 2-for-4 at the dish. Migliore also pitched a solid game on the mound putting eight innings. He allowed two runs on seven hits and two walks while striking out three.
The win brings the Nitros to 24-22 while the loss takes the Dodgers to 21-25 on the season.
The Dodgers and Nitros are off Monday but will meet in the NYCBL Western Division playoff on Tuesday. A 4 p.m. first pitch is scheduled at Wellsville. The winner advances to meet the first-place Olean Oilers in the best-of-three series Western Division Championship Series beginning Wednesday in Olean.
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