Athens baseball edges Mansfield.
By: The Review | Towanda Daily Review | April 22, 2017 | Photo courtesy Charlie Berch
2017 NTL and District 4 News
MANSFIELD -- The Athens Wildcats handed North Penn-Mansfield their first NTL loss with a 3-2 win on Friday.
Athens scored two runs in the first inning and scored in the fourth to go up 3-0 before Mansfield battled back with runs in the bottom of the fourth and sixth innings.
Cody Jennings threw five innings, striking out eight and allowing three hits and one unearned run. Matt Collins pitched two innings, striking out one and allowing two hits and one run.
Mansfield's Logan Adams threw six innings, striking out five and Kipp Hillson threw one scoreless inning.
Jennings had three hits and Marc Felt had three hits, with a double, and two RBI in the win.
Joe Horn had two hits, with an RBI and Cory Stivason had a hit and scored a run.
Luke Newman and Ryan Kennedy had hits and Matt Collins and Kaden Rude scored runs.
Dewey Wise had a double and an RBI for Mansfield and Joel Whitteker had a hit and scored a run, while Carl Dinger had a hit and scored a run.
Hillson and Brendan Hill had hits for Mansfield in the game.
Towanda 9, Troy 2
The Black Knights got a complete-game four-hitter from Troy Pierce in the win.
Pierce struck out five and walked one in the win. It was Pierce's first career win and complete game.
Tyler Bidlack had a 4-for-4 day with three RBI and two runs scored.
Lars Thomason had a double, an RBI and two runs scored and Keegan Kisner had a hit, an RBI and two runs scored.
Ryan Bartholomew scored a run and Luke Tama had a hit and an RBI, while Zane Neubert had a hit and an RBI and Caleb Lines scored two runs.
Anthony Deitrick had two hits with a double and an RBI for Troy and Nick Call had a hit and scored a run.
Bailey Cohick had a double and scored a run for Troy
Josh Swain had an RBI for Troy.
Deitrick started for Troy and Clark Jackson, Mason Bellows and Hunter Kendall pitched as Troy combined to strike out five and allow eight hits.
"Excellent outing by Troy Pierce, he's pitched pretty solidly all year," Towanda coach Bill Sexton said. "90 pitches for the seven innings, really the key to the whole game, if you don't walk people and don't make errors and force people to hit you are probably going to do ok. Troy was around the strike zone all night. A solid offensive outing by Tyler Bidlack tonight. All of his hits were line drives. Three of his four hits resulted in RBI, so a real solid night overall from him.
"If you do the fundamental things and you play baseball with some enthusiasm, the kids played well, had a lot of fun tonight and it ended up being a good night for us."
Towanda hosts CV on Monday and Troy hosts Mansfield at 1:30 p.m. today.
Notre Dame 5, Tioga 4
SOUTHPORT, N.Y. -- The Crusaders scored in the bottom of the sixth inning to break a 4-4 tie in the win.
Isaiah McKay singled in the inning and scored the go-ahead run.
Matt Smith and Nate Snavely each had two hits for Notre Dame and McKay, Erik Chartnetski, Reese Youmans and Gary Raupers all had hits.
Snavely and Youmans had doubles in the game and Smith had two RBI, while Snavely had an RBI.
Youmans scored two runs, Charnetski, McKay and Smith scored runs.
Parker Hendershot pitched 5 2/3 innings for Tioga, striking out seven and Pierce Hendershot got the last out for Tioga.
Snavely pitched six innings for Notre Dame, striking out seven and Ben Cook got the save, striking out one and stranding the bases loaded in the seventh.
Parker Hendershot had two hits, with a double, and Pierce Hendershot had a double. Both scored runs in the game.
Justin Rockwell scored a run and had an RBI and Damon Rockwell had a hit.
Hugh Singer had a hit for Tioga.
Wyalusing 4, NEB 2
The Rams got their first league win of the season on Friday.
Mike Wilcox and Mason McGroaty combined on a three-hitter for the Rams. Wilcox pitched three innings and McGroaty pitched four one-hit innings.
Joe Wheeler had two hits, with a double, an RBI and a run scored and Kyle Warner and Chandler Brown each had hits and RBI.
Shane Fuhrey had a hit and scored a run and Jon Morrison and Riley God scored runs.
Tyler Emick had two hits, with a triple, an RBI and a run scored in his first game of the season coming back from an injury for NEB.
Nate Watkins had a hit and an RBI, Max Cooper had a hit and Garret Smith scored a run.
Tyler Devonshire pitched two scoreless innings and Nate Chilson pitched four innings, allowing four unearned runs.
NEB is at Mansfield on Monday.
