Faced with the prospect of a damaging defeat, the Skaneateles baseball team simply refused to accept it and produced another memorable victory.
The Lakers’ 11-10, eight-inning defeat of Solvay last Wednesday afternoon ranks with anything else the team has accomplished this spring, if only because it made three different comebacks before it was done.
First, Skaneateles trailed 4-0 before it got four runs in the bottom of the third inning to tie it. Then Solvay reclaimed the lead, 6-4, in the fourth before the Lakers used a three-run outburst in the fifth to move in front 7-6.
Three outs from victory, the Lakers could not hold on as, in the seventh, Solvay poked across a run to tie it. Then it appeared to break the Skaneateles spirits when, in the top of the eighth, it got to Pat Roberts (who had relieved Zach Augustine) for three runs.
Behind 10-7, Skaneateles gathered itself together for one more comeback. As Solvay starter Kyle Groth tired, the Lakers tagged him for three runs to pull even again, then won it when Jared Amory’s sacrifice fly brought home the game-winner.
Through it all, Augustine augmented his pitching effort with a home run and three RBIs. Roberts scored three runs as Sean Cooney earned two hits and two RBIs. Mike Morris also drove in two runs.
