It stayed dry enough for most of the week so that the Marcellus baseball team played three games, winning two of them, and West Genesee got started with back-to-back wins where it netted a combined 25 runs.
Marcellus got going first, rolling last Tuesday to an 11-1 win over Jordan-Elbridge by scoring eight runs in the first inning and three more runs in the second.
Sam Grattan, Ryan Pierce and Matt Spicer led the Mustangs’ charge, each with a pair of RBIs. Ethan Molinari, Ben McFall, Max McAulliff and Brendan Shanahan drove in one run apiece.
McFall, who pitched five innings, and reliever T.J. Drew gave up a total of seven hits to the Eagles, two of them by Jordan Osborn. But the Mustangs pitchers amassed seven strikeouts and only allowed a run on Osborn’s seventh-inning single.
Marcellus prevailed again on Friday, shutting out Mexico 9-0 as the pitching trio of Molinari (3 2/3 innings), Spicer (2 1/3 innings) and Hugh White (one inning) held the Tigers to two hits, Spicer and Molinari each striking out six.
Still, the game wasn’t secured until the Mustangs, up 2-0, put together a five-run fifth inning, with two more runs in the sixth. Spicer and McCauliff each had two RBIs as McFall and Molinari drove in single runs. Grattan and Aidan Shea each scored twice.
With a chance to get to 3-0, Marcellus challenged its long-time rivals from Skaneateles on Saturday afternoon, but saw its bats go quiet in a 4-1 loss to the Lakers.
Ben Berratta pitched five innings and contained Skaneateles most of the way, but the two runs he allowed in the first inning were more than enough for Lakers hurler Tommy Reed, who went six innings and only allowed four hits and two walks.
White relieved Berratta and went the last two innings on the mound. Of the five hits Marcellus earned, two each were by Berratta and Shea as Brayton Johnson scored the lone Marcellus run in the fifth.
West Genesee didn’t start until Thursday, and managed to fit in six innings against the combined Syracuse City team before the rain returned, easily working its way to a 15-0 victory.
Liam Barry pitched quite well for the Wildcats, holding Syracuse to one hit and a pair of walks. Meanwhile, WG got on the board with a pair of first-inning runs and added five runs in the third before four-run outbursts in the fifth and sixth innings.
Joe Comins doubled twice, singled, scored three runs and got two RBIs. Chris Bonacci also had three hits as Nick Chemotti had two hits and three runs scored. Barry and Matt Kot drove in two runs apiece as single RBIs went to Dan Purcell and Brad May.
WG then made it back-to-back wins on Saturday, toppling Central Square 10-3 as it put up four runs in the first inning to lead for good and got runs in each of the first five frames overall.
Kot had three of the Wildcats’ 13 hits, two of them doubles, and drove in four runs as Tim Winn got two RBIs. Purcell doubled, tripled and drove in a run as May, Chemotti and Taylor Gould added RBIs of their own.
Getting his turn on the mound, Dylan Steinman struck out nine Redhawks in four innings and gave up just two hits. Ryan Paige notched three innings of no-hit relief, striking out five.
