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CAMERON COUNTY 13, CURWENSVILLE 1, 5 INN. |
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May 29, 2008 - District 9 Class A Baseball Championship Game at St. Marys' Berwind Park |
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By Fred Kavelak
ST. MARYS - Sean McManigle's grand-slam home run in the first inning
jump-started Cameron County's potent offense and Cameron Clingan pitched a three-hitter as the Red Raiders
trimmed Curwensville 13-1 in 4-1/2 innings at Berwind Park Thursday for their second District 9 Class A baseball
crown in three years. Coach Dick Harrier's veteran team, which lost to Johnsonburg
8-3 in the 9-A championship game last year and then 2-1 in their rematch in the PIAA semifinals, showed why
it is hitting at nearly a .400 clip and averaging almost 12 runs a game. Cameron County (17-2) pounded 11 hits, including the homer and
four doubles, off Golden Tide ace Ben McGary and Wes McGarry and scored at least two runs in every inning. Eight Red Raiders joined the hit parade, with David Lyon, Adam
Zoschg and Darrick Mason cracking two apiece. Mason, Garrett Hornung and Cory Reed each had two runs batted in. Clingan, who missed the first half of the season because of illness,
fanned five and walked two in picking up his fourth win without a loss. The Golden Tide's Jed Greslick broke up his shutout bid with a lead-off
home run to deep left center in the fourth inning. Singles by Jordan Crane and Lyon and an error on Clingan's grounder
preceded McManigle's blast just to the left of the 360-foot mark in left center that set the tone for the game. Hornung doubled for two runs and later scored on Lyon's single to make
it 7-0 after two frames. A walk and back-to-back RBI-doubles by Zoschg and Mason, the No. 8 and
No. 9 batters, upped the lead to 9-0 in the third inning. Reed's bases-loaded single highlighted a four-run rally in
the fourth that set up the early finish because of the Mercy Rule. Both teams will be in action Monday in the first round of the PIAA
Playoffs, Cameron County against District 7 third place Serra Catholic (21-2) and Curwensville (17-6) against
District 6 champion Homer-Center. CURWENSVILLE --- 1 Ben McGary p-cf 2000, Jonathan Michaels ph 1000, Wes McGarry rf-p 1000,
Jed Greslick lf-rf 2111, Brett McCracken ss 2000, Trevor Horton dh 2000, Andrew Straw 3b 0000, Cory Bloom c 2010,
Brett Sutika 2000, Mark Dell'Antonio 1b 1000, Jesse Hoover ph 0000, Sam Gardner cf-lf 2010. TOTALS: 17 1 3
1. CAMERON COUNTY --- 13 Garrett Hornung 2b 3112, Jordan Crane 1b 4110, David Lyon c 3121,
Cameron Clingan ph 3210, Sean McManigle rf 2214, Mike Baker lf 1200, Cory Reed ss 2012, Abram Zoschg 3b 3321,
Darrick Mason dh 3122, Matt Kriner cf 0000. TOTALS: 24 13 11 12. Score by Innings Curwensville 000 10 - 1
1 3 Cameron County 432 4x - 13 11 0 Errors - McCracken 2, Sutika. PB - Bloom 1. LOB - Curwensville 3;
Cameron County 4. 2B - Hornung, Clingan, Zoschg, Mason. HR - Greslick; McManigle. Sac - Reed. SB - McManigle,
Zoschg, Mason. Pitching Curwensville - McGary 2-2/3 IP, 8 H, 9 R, 7 ER, 1 BB, 2 K; W. McGarry
1-2/3 IP, 3 H, 4 R, 3 ER, 3 BB, 0 K. Cameron County - Clingan 5 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 5 K. WP - McGary 1. W - Clingan (4-0). L - McGary (6-2). Umpires - Lynn Gilham (home plate), Sam Bevak (first base), Joe Shick
(second base), Scott Ditullio (third base). |