CENTRAL NEW YORK – It finally cleared up and dried up for the Cazenovia baseball team to resume OHSL Liberty division action late in the week, and the Lakers didn’t waste the opportunity.
Meeting Jordan-Elbridge last Friday at Cortland’s Gutchess Field, the Lakers simply unloaded in the five innings it required to pound the Eagles 28-0.
The damage included a 10-run second inning and 12-run fourth inning, Cazenovia accumulating 19 hits, led by Jacob Grevelding, who went five-for-five with four singles, a double, four RBIs and four runs scored.
Sully Clarke scored five times as he, along with Jack Donlin and Joey Awald, got three RBIs apiece. Ben Orbach had three hits and drove in a pair of runs and A.J. Rothfeld scored three runs.
This happened as the Cazenovia softball team took on Homer and put together a consistent hitting approach that translated into an 8-3 victory over the Trojans.
Cazenovia managed to score runs in each of the first five innings, peaking when it got two runs in the second and three runs in the third.
Riley Newcomb, Julia Bush and Abby Falso each earned a pair of walks, with Bush scoring twice. Mya Skeele added an RBI as she also pitched five innings, combining with Luka Galle to strike out 10 Homer batters.
In the meantime, Chittenango took a 2-1 record into last Wednesday’s game against reigning sectional Class B champion Marcellus and could not get on the board in an 11-0 loss to the Mustangs.
Three-run rallies in the third and fourth innings got Marcellus in front. The Bears managed just four hits off Mustangs pitcher Aubrey Fraher, three of them by Anna Spencer as Allison Soulier got the other hit. Bella Mondello led Marcellus with a triple, double, two singles and four RBIs.
On the baseball diamond, Chittenango got back on the field Thursday, and found itself on the wrong end of a no-hitter thrown by Solvay pitchers Dan Mrowinski and Jonathan Gonzalez-Perez in a 10-0 loss to the Bearcats.
Mrowinski managed, in five innings of work, to not surrender a hit despite six walks. Then Gonzalez-Perez closed it out with a scoreless inning of work. At the plate, Ty Martineau went three-for-three with three RBIs to match Gonzalez-Perez.
Somehow, the Bears engineered a complete turnaround and, on Saturday afternoon, romped past Clinton 11-1, the bats offering plenty of protection for pitcher Kyle Peryer, who gave up just that single run despite six hits.
All but one of Chittenango’s players scored at least one run, with Ty Kelly crossing the plate three times. David Bruno got three hits as he and Austin Khammar had two RBIs apiece. Kelly, Drew Thomas, Ben Welch, Kyle Peryer and Carlos Torres-Carman also drove in runs.
