Hopwood rings up 20 runs in win over Charleroi
Santino Marra was 3 for 4 with three RBIs and three runs and Wyatt Nehls and Matthew Firestone knocked in four runs apiece as Hopwood Village Plaza buried visiting Charleroi, 20-2, in Fayette County Baseball League action on Thursday.
Firestone doubled and singled and Nehls also doubled as Hopwood rang up 14 hits in the five-inning game. Justin Brestensky doubled and drove in three runs.
Hopwood also got a double, single and an RBI from Tate Musko, a single and two RBIs from Anthony Piasecki and a single and an RBI from both Chase Sankovich and Andino Vecchiolla.
Chad Behrendt had two hits and an RBI for the Magicians who took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first when Colton Brightwell singled and came around to score on a wild pitch.
Hopwood answered with six runs in the bottom of the inning and two more in the second before exploding for 11 runs in the third inning when it sent 15 men to the plate.
Hopwood added a final run in the fourth. Charleroi scored once in the fifth.
Winning pitcher Robbie Andrews allowed one run on three hits with four walks and one strikeout in three innings. Geno Thorpe followed with a scoreless inning and Vecchiolla allowed one unearned run in tossing the fifth inning.
OAKLAND 3, CARMICHAELS 2 — Cameron Goble’s run-scoring single broke a 2-2 tie in the bottom of the sixth inning to propel the host Oaks past the Copperheads.
Vincent Aloi led off the inning with a single, courtesy runner Riley O’Brien advanced to third on Chris Green’s two-out single and scored on Goble’s infield hit.
Luke Ross pitched a perfect seventh inning to earn the save for starter and winner Aloi, who allowed two unearned runs on two hits with four walks and a strikeout in six innings.
Easton Rhoten had two hits for Oakland which also got one RBI apiece from Cody Cooper and Alex Kennell.
Dom Colarusso doubled and Devin Fluhmann singled for Carmichaels’ only hits.
The Copperheads scored two runs without the benefit of a hit in the first inning, combining two hit batsmen, a walk and an error with Fluhmann and Robbie Wilson-Jones both scoring.
The Oaks tied in the bottom of the inning on Cooper’s RBI ground out and Kennell’s sacrifice fly.
Losing pitcher Ben Shields surrendered eight hits and one walk with three strikeouts in going the distance.
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SMITHFIELD-FAIRCHANCE 5, THOMAS JEFFERSON 5 — Evan Weakland hit a two-run single in the bottom of the seventh inning to pull host Smithfield-Fairchance even with Thomas Jefferson and the score stayed that way as the teams fought to a nine-inning tie.
Thomas Jefferson scored four runs in the first inning but S-F cut the lead in half in the third on AJ Watson’s RBI double and Matt Malinsky’s run-scoring single.
TJ made it 5-2 with a run in the fourth on Cesar Padron’s RBI single. Watson’s sacrifice fly in the fifth cut the lead to two.
Nico Edwards walked leading off the seventh for the hosts. Two outs later, Kaiden Brady singled and both came around to score on Weakland’s hit.
Brady pitched seven innings of relief, allowing just one run on three hits and a walk with eight strikeouts.
BELLE VERNON 6, CHARLEROI 5 — Belle Vernon rallied from a 3-1 deficit with five runs in the top of the seventh inning then held on from there to defeat host Charleroi.
Max Manley hit a two-run single, then stole second and scored what proved to be the deciding run on an error to cap Belle Vernon’s rally. The visitors got an RBI double from JB Crovak and run-scoring single from Jacob Peterson earlier in the inning.
Charleroi cut the gap to one run on two-out RBI singles by Brock Henderson and Jaxson Klinger in the bottom of the seventh before winning pitcher Cole Matusik got a game-ending strikeout.
Matusik gave up one earned run on three hits with a walk and four strikeouts in two innings. Starter Maddox Ceccarelli allowed three runs on five hits with three walks and five strikeouts in five innings.
Crovak and Peterson each had two hits and an RBI for Belle Vernon, which also got a single and an RBI from Chase Petrosky.
Klinger, Henderson and Layne Gerba each had two hits and an RBI for Charleroi.