Both the Christian Brothers Academy and Jamesville-DeWitt baseball teams go into the Section III Class A playoffs riding win streaks – with the Brothers racing to the top seed.
At the start of a weekend sweep, the Brothers hammered Mexico 17-9 on Friday as it quickly overcame a 2-0 deficit with 10 total runs in the first two innings. Eventually, the margin got to 17-2 before a late Tigers rally.
Bryant Moore hit a home run, his sixth of the season, and earned four RBIs as he, along with Pat Wiese, Dave Anderson and Anthony Cirillo, each produced three hits.
Luke Alletzhauser, who allowed just one hit in five innings of relief work (improving to 5-0), contributed his own three-run shot over the fence as Dan Patane homered, too, and joined Alletzhauser with three RBIs of his own.
CBA then closed the regular season with a 13-8 victory over Clinton that featured runs in each of the first five innings as Tim Hobb got the win this time around.
Among the 15 hits, Riley Dixon smashed a home run, while Moore tripled. Cirillo’s pair of doubles led to three RBIs as Anderson, Wiese, Pete Corasaniti, Sean Lavin and Sean Fitzpatrick drove in single runs.
J-D, who lost to CBA earlier in the week, recorded a dramatic 11-9 win over Cortland last Thursday afternoon, blowing an 8-6 lead as the Purple Tigers used single runs in the fourth, sixth and seventh innings to move ahead 9-8.
The Rams had the last move, though, as it tied things up in the bottom of the seventh, then won it on Justin Marzella’s two-run home run.
Tom Driscoll went four-for-four and scored twice, leading a 15-hit attack where Mick Cariseo and Josh Paduano had three hits. Anthony Dunn and Jim Schwartz added RBIs.
And the Rams would close strong on Friday, beating East Syracuse-Minoa 6-2 to return to the .500 mark at 10-10. A 0-0 game changed when, in the top of the third inning, J-D got to Spartan pitcher Peter Gigliotti for five runs, never to get caught.
Eight different players accounted for J-D’s 13 hits, three of them from Mike Gianni as he posted a pair of RBIs. Marzella drove in a run and went four innings on the mound, earning the win as Jamie Shibley pitched a strong three-inning relief stint.
As expected, CBA drew the top seed for the Section III Class A playoffs, and have a bye into Thursday’s quarterfinal round, where it will face Indian River or Whitesboro.
J-D, meanwhile, drew the no. 7 seed and would host no. 10 seed Chittenango in Tuesday’s first round, with the winner to advance to Thursday’s quarterfinal against no. 2 seed Watertown.
