By MIKE DeSANTO
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Senior Andrew Chilelli went 3-for-4 with three RBI and a walk as the East Rochester Bombers finished the regular season with a 14-6 win over the Clyde-Savannah Golden Eagles Tuesday afternoon.
“This is one of our better hitting games, and we’ve days where we just couldn’t buy a hit or we hit the ball right at them,” Bombers head coach Patrick Walsh said. “I thought we had guys on base every inning, pretty much.”
The Bombers sent sophomore Corwyn Cleveland to the mound for the start while the Golden Eagles countered with senior Jaret Murray. Cleveland threw three-and-one-third inning for the Bombers, allowing six runs (five earned) on three hits and six walks, striking out four.
“It’s his first game he’s started this year,” Walsh said. “So, he’s been our guy that comes in and closes, or he has also middle relief, so this is a new animal. I thought the first inning he was hyped up and he settled down pretty well, I thought. I thought he did a good job.”
Murray lasted two innings for the Golden Eagles, giving up five runs on six hits and three walks with four strikeouts.
The Golden Eagles struck first offensively when seniors Tre Kanaley, the catcher, and shortstop Dylan Ufholz, along with junior first baseman Nick Ramos, reached to load the bases with one out. A wild pitch allowed Kanaley, who had singled, to score. Ufholz, who walked, came around thanks to a fielder’s choice to put the Golden Eagles up 2-0 early.
However, the Bombers responded with a five-run second inning to take the lead. Sophomore first baseman John Krautwurst opened the scoring with a two-run single. Senior center fielder Dmitri Georgantonis followed with an RBI double. Sophomore second baseman Austin Mack picked an RBI single in the next at bat and an error finished the scoring for the inning, allowing Georgantonis to score.
Clyde-Savannah junior second baseman Klayton Green was able to chip into the lead in the third, driving in two runs on a single.
This set up the Golden Eagles to take the lead in the fourth. After Ufholz singled, stealing second and third, and the bases were loaded on back-to-back walks, a third consecutive walk brought in Ufholz as the tying run. Murray, who reached earlier on a walk, came in to score when, on a ground ball that went foul, the umpire called catcher interference moving all runners up and putting the batter on first.
But the Bombers wasted no time taking control of the game for good. Mack and Chilleli each singled to open the fourth. Mack moved to third on Chilelli’s single. This allowed Mack to be in position to score on a sacrifice fly by Cleveland, with Chilelli moving second on an overthrow to the plate. Chilelli then scored on a fielder’s choice for senior right fielder Jacob Sturm.
The Bombers continued to pour in the runs, scoring two in the fifth and five in the sixth. Chilelli highlighted the two innings, knocking home one on a single in the fifth and two on a single in the sixth.
Sturm, who had come in to pitch in the fifth, set the Golden Eagles down with little trouble in the seventh inning, securing the Bombers win.
Dan Bonafede, the head coach of the Golden Eagles, said his team made some mistakes, which the Bombers took advantage of to get the win.
“I think we made a couple errors that extended innings, gave them a couple of runs they shouldn’t have had,” Bonafede said. “They had a lot of good hits. They had a few blooper there too that, a little luck goes our way, maybe the score is not so bad.”
Both teams will now move on to sectionals, which will begin later this week.
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