SYRACUSE – Not once this spring will the Baldwinsville baseball team play an actual home game.
With ongoing construction at the all-weather field which will replace the Bees’ longtime home diamond, each home contest moves to Onondaga Community College’s complex.
This assures that, barring severe inclement weather, B’ville will get in all of its home contests, including last Friday’s opener when it rallied late for a 3-2 victory over Jamesville-DeWitt.
On this same OCC turf last spring the Red Rams won the Section III Class A championship, and here it used single runs in the first and third innings off Ben Leaton and Joey Warner to grab a 2-0 advantage. Cole Jordan drove in both runs.
From there, though, the Bees blanked J-D getting a two-inning scoreless relief stint from Shane Wellman and allowing for a comeback.
A run in the fourth driven in by Leaton cut it to 2-1, and then in the bottom of the seventh B’ville pulled it out as Tyler Hawthorne’s single off Eamon Giblin scored Kian Scullion. The Bees then loaded the bases before Hudson Dziadula, who had already tripled, drew a walk and the winning run scored.
Logan Mascari, who pitched in relief in the seventh, earned the win. Other than Hawthorne’s tying single and Dziadula’s triple, Nate Marier had the only hit off the Rams pitching trio of Giblin, Luke VanMarter and Jack Pole.
Now the Bees would travel to the Disney Wide World of Sports complex in Florida for a week of seasoning before returning to Central New York for games at OCC on April 17 and 18 against Syracuse City and Fulton.
