CENTRAL NEW YORK – It turned out that, when the Christian Brothers Academy baseball team defeated Fayetteville-Manlius on April 8, it was more special than usual.
Due to a scorer’s error later corrected, the Hornets’ lone hit was turned into an error. Thus, Luke Boule and Will Harrigan combined to throw a no-hitter against the reigning Section III Class AA champions.
F-M, meanwhile, moved up a game scheduled against Baldwinsville from May 18 to last Thursday afternoon, making it the Hornets’ home opener.
Once again, though, the Hornets found it difficult to produce at the plate, its shutout streak reaching 10 innings before it was stopped amid a 6-3 defeat to the Bees.
Four different F-M pitchers worked – Harrison Schwab, Gavin Nichols, Sam Kuss and Seth Albert. Yet B’ville was steady and productive, scoring twice in the first inning and once in each of the next three innings.
Not until it trailed 5-0 did the Hornets break through, scoring twice in the bottom of the fourth and again in the fifth as Kuss and Stephen Wratney earned RBIs. Yet it wasn’t enough, the Bees led by Aidan Milburn’s home run, double and three RBIs to go with 4 1/3 innings of solid pitching.
With no time to rest, F-M then challenged unbeaten, reigning sectional Class B champion Westhill on Friday afternoon and, after plenty of early production, was shut down late in a 9-6 defeat to the Warriors.
The Hornets grabbed an early 3-1 lead and, after Westhill scored five times in the bottom of the second, F-M answered with three runs in the third to tie it, 6-6, led by Wratney’s home run, double and three RBIs as Eitan Spinoza drove in two runs and Albert added an RBI.
But Westhill got a run in the third and two runs in the fifth, along with four scoreless innings of relief from Dom Zawadzki, to win its fifth in a row. Dan Swift took the loss after Max Werde got the start,
Bishop Grimes was humbled last Wednesday in a 10-0 defeat to Skaneateles, managing just one hit, by Jackson Fudge, off Lakers ace Scott Scherrer. Will Markwood pitched and took the loss.
A day earlier, Grimes went to Cato-Meridian last Tuesday and was able to pull out a 7-6 decision over the Blue Devils.
Aaron Nuzzo was the only Cobras player to get two hits as Jon Farstler scored twice. Owen Tierney pitched five innings before Bruno Kinsey’s two innings of no-hit relief led to the victory.
