ONONDAGA COUNTY – Though the rosters had changed and turned over, the Baldwinsville baseball team still remembered how Fayetteville-Manlius had kept them from the 2019 Section III Class AA championship.
So when the two sides reunited last Monday afternoon, the Bees, led by the pitching of Luke Arvantides, got some payback on the Hornets, prevailing by a score of 6-1.
For five innings, Arvantides did not allow a hit and, aided by five strikeouts, kept F-M off the board despite surrendering four walks.
Meanwhile, the Bees scored twice in the first and third innings, adding single runs in the fifth and sixth as Aiden Milburn led the way with three hits and two runs scored. Matt Carner, Perry Chetney, Ken Svitak and Robert Grems had one RBI apiece.
Only in the sixth did Arvantides surrender his no-hitter and shutout when Tom Woodridge singled home Connor Wieczorek, but Josh Gorham worked the seventh inning to finish off the victory.
On Friday, B’ville took on West Genesee, a rematch of the 2-1 thriller the Bees pulled out in the May 1 opener. Here, the game would go to extra innings 0-0 but get halted by rain without a decision.
Meanwhile, the Baldwinsville softball team split its two games last week. The Bees lost 10-3 to Fayetteville-Manlius last Monday as it fell behind 6-0 in the first four innings before staging its lone rally in the bottom of the fifth.
Taylor Tripodi’s double scored Jordan Martin and Ayla Fleming, and Tripodi later scored herself, but that was all the Bees could manage against Hornets pitcher Paige Murphy. Sophie Woodridge hit a solo home run for F-M as Paige Graves and Gwen O’Connor had two RBIs apiece.
After some midweek rains, B’ville met West Genesee on Friday. Having topped the Wildcats 9-6 six days earlier, the Bees did even better in the rematch, rolling to a 12-1 victory.
Three runs in each of the first two innings set the tone, and B’ville doubled that output led by Gabrielle Carr, who burned WG for four of her team’s 17 hits, all singles, and scoring three times.
Alyssa Dabacz doubled and drove in two runs. Fleming, Kyrah Wilbur and Emma Johnson picked up two hits apiece as Tripodi, Martin and Isabella Nadzan each drove in a run.
