{"id":1334,"date":"2009-07-03T04:46:34","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T11:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/03\/geneva-squeezes-webster\/"},"modified":"2009-07-03T04:46:34","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T11:46:34","slug":"geneva-squeezes-webster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/03\/geneva-squeezes-webster\/","title":{"rendered":"Geneva Squeezes Webster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Casey Rana (U Texas \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Permian Basin) tossed a complete game one-hitter, and Geneva executed a suicide squeeze in the top of the ninth to defeat Webster 4-2, in New York Collegiate Baseball League action, Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Gordy Lahann (U Texas \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Permian Basin) dropped a one-out bunt, and pinch runner, Mike Blanchard (Austin Peay), raced home with the eventual game-winning run. Eddie Bleiler (Holy Cross) worked a one-out walk off Webster reliever, Bryant Guilmette (U Mass-Lowell) before giving way to Blanchard.\u00c2\u00a0 Chris Dudics (Toledo) came home with an insurance when Brendan McCrea (Holy Cross) hit a sacrifice fly.<\/p>\n<p>Geneva plated a run each in the sixth and seventh frames. Bleiler led the seventh with a single and scored on Lahann\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s triple into left center. McCrea started the sixth with a walk off Webster starter, Brian Pullyblank (So. Illinois) and came home on a base hit by Jack Wortley (U Texas \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Permian Basin).<\/p>\n<p>Webster\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s runs came in the fifth when Ryan Chenoweth (Ball State) hit a blast over the fence in right field scoring Nate Koontz (Ball State). Chenoweth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s home run represented the only hit of the night for the pinstripes. Koontz reached on a throwing error in the infield.<\/p>\n<p>For the second time in as many opportunities, Rana tamed the Yankee lineup. On June 24<sup>th<\/sup>, the southpaw scattered nine hits for a complete game shutout as Geneva beat Webster, 4-0. Thursday, the native of Gilbert, Arizona allowed just five base runners while striking out six. Using his breaking ball early in the count Rana kept Webster batters off-balance all night.<\/p>\n<p>With the loss, Webster\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s record stands at 12-5.<\/p>\n<p>Webster travels to Niagara, Friday, for a game with the Power. First pitch is set for 7 pm. Matt Jimenez (Mercyhurst) gets the start for Webster.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pickinsplinters.com\/\">Pickin&#8217; Splinters\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Casey Rana (U Texas \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Permian Basin) tossed a complete game one-hitter, and Geneva executed a suicide squeeze in the top of the ninth to defeat Webster 4-2, in New York Collegiate Baseball League action, Thursday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collegiate"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}