For the third time in the last eight games Dave Brust\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Webster Yankees left the tying run stranded at third as the Hornell Dodgers took the opening game of a doubleheader, 4-3 in New York Collegiate Baseball League action at Basket Road Field.<\/p>\n
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Webster rallied from a 4-1 deficit with a pair of runs in the eighth. Steve Muoio\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (Georgia C&S) two-out single to right field plated Shawn Bailey (SUNY Cortland) with the third run for the home nine. Ricky Clark (Central Michigan) led the frame and was hit by a pitch. Bailey dropped a bunt single down the third baseline, and both advanced when the ensuing throw flew over first base. Eventually, Clark scored on a wild pitch.<\/p>\n
Ryan Chenoweth (Ball State) slashed a one-out triple in the ninth. Hornell reliever, Chase Boroff (Carson Newman), extinguished the threat with a back-to-back strike outs.<\/p>\n
The Yankees jumped to a one-run lead in the second. With two outs Chriss Soldi (UMass-Lowell) got caught in a run-down at first base. The designated hitter alertly continued the play so that Chenoweth could score from second.<\/p>\n
But luck did not shine on the pinstripes Saturday. Hornell pasted runs on the board during the sixth, seventh, and eighth. Jeff Lockwood (Tennessee) tied the score on an opposite-field two strike single by Trey Bennett (Mercyhurst). Bennett fought off an inside pitch for the RBI.<\/p>\n
Hornell took the lead one inning later. Adalberto Vargas (Alfred St.) doubled and scored on a single by Thomas Zurline (St. Joseph\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s).<\/p>\n
Lockwood and Bennett combined in the eighth for a deuce. Lockwood led with a triple. Bennett walked and stole second. Webster appeared to slow the rally when reliever, Scott Brothers (Ball State), put a glove on a come-backer. Unfortunately, the ball caromed into the area vacated by shortstop, Bailey.\u00c2\u00a0 Lockwood and Bennett crossed the dish, and Craig Shaefer (Webster) stood at second with a double on a ball that never left the infield.<\/p>\n
Bennett made an outstanding catch in left center which turns out to be a game-saver. \u00c2\u00a0Matt Jacobs (U Mass-Lowell) led the seventh with a drive into the gap. Bennett sprinted, leapt and took away a sure triple \u00e2\u20ac\u201c possibly an inside-the-park home run.<\/p>\n
Clark and Bailey led the game with singles. Rhett Goodmiller (Central Michigan) advanced the runners with a sacrifice bunt, but Webster could not take advantage from there.<\/p>\n
With the loss, Webster falls to 18-18.<\/p>\n
In the night cap, Webster took a 4-1 lead in the first before storms settled into Webster.<\/p>\n
Clark and Goodmiller reached base on walks. Nate Koontz (Ball State) plated Clark with a single. Muoio drove home Goodmiller. Jacobs brought home Koontz, and Chenoweth delivered Muoio with a single.<\/p>\n
Play was suspended. A new date and time are pending.<\/p>\n
Webster travels to Brockport Sunday for a 4pm tilt.<\/p>\n