After some early struggles, the Jamesville-DeWitt baseball team got a big win over its neighbors from Fayetteville-Manlius on April 13 before the weather deteriorated again.
Once the snow stopped and melted, the sun returned last Saturday to resume full baseball action, and several local sides took advantage, including J-D, who rolled to a 12-0 victory over the Cortland Purple Tigers.
Here was the first instance of a game shortened to five innings by the new mercy rule, and in those five frames Red Rams pitchers Sean Hlywa and Carter Kowalczyk limited Cortland to one hit and earned five total strikeouts.
Meanwhile, the Rams scored all of its runs in the first three innings, a six-run first setting the tone as Scottie O’Bryan and Zach Goodson had two RBIs apiece. Nick Brotzki, Mateo Santos, Luke Smith and Parker Wing also drove in runs as Nolan Giblin joined Smith, Wing, O’Bryan and Goodson in scoring a pair of runs.
F-M, meanwhile, visited Baldwinsville, who had knocked off Syracuse 1-0 earlier that day, but would also contain the Hornets, too, as the visitors absorbed a 5-1 defeat.
In the top of the first, Isaac Blanford drove home Mitch Seabury, giving F-M a 1-0 lead. That was all B’ville pitcher Jack Andres would allow as he limited the Hornets to three hits and struck out nine, surrendering just one walk.
The Bees went in front when it picked up four runs against Hornets starter Peter Miller. Jason Savacool recorded a home run as Matt Mercurio had two hits and an RBI, with Lucas Robinson and Jacob Marshall also driving in runs. Williams, Pat May, Frank Levanti and Trey Blasi each scored once.
East Syracuse Minoa met Fulton and lost, 5-3, to the Red Raiders, seeing two different leads get away.
The Spartans scored first in the top of the third, and answered Fulton’s two-run fourth inning by getting two runs of its own in the fifth to grab a 3-2 edge. Sam Jenkins drove in all of those runs as Brendan Seburn scored twice.
Seburn also pitched, and took that 3-2 lead to the bottom of the sixth, when the Red Raiders reclaimed the lead for good. Kameron Whipple (two hits) and Cole Cotton (two RBIs) led Fulton.
