The Valley View Cougars traveled to Mountain Top on Wednesday afternoon to take on the Crestwood Comets. The Cougars would serve as the home team at Veterans Field. Valley View is coming off a win over Abington Heights. Crestwood is coming off a victory at Nanticoke to win their third in a row. The Cougars' Dixon Black faced off against the Comets' Colby Jones.
Black would throw a 1-2-3 top of the first for Valley View. Dixon Black would hit a two out single but a flyout to center would end the first. Derek Petrochko would get hit by a pitch with one out then Brad Papura would draw a walk and Stew Caladie would hit an infield single to load the bases. Mike Geroski would hit a sacrifice fly to center to score Petrochko for a 1-0 Crestwood lead. A groundout would end the top of the second. Duke Stafursky, Paul Chorba, and Shane Doherty would draw two out walks to load the bases but a strikeout would end the inning. Black would another 1-2-3 inning in the third. Chase Combs would hit a leadoff single and Black would draw a walk but would retire the next three batters to keep the Cougars off the board. Black would throw his second straight 1-2-3 inning in the fourth. Chorba would hit a one out single, after a fielder's choice by Doherty, Zack Kovalchik would hit a single to move Doherty to third and Kovalchik would go to second on the throw but a strikeout would end the fourth. Chico Mendoza would hit a double to right with two outs. Mendoza would go to third on a wild pitch then Dean Ambosie would hit a double to left for a 2-0 lead. Mike Palmiero would hit a single to move Ambosie to third. Ambosie would score on a wild pitch for a 3-0 Crestwood. A groundout would end the top of the fifth. Black would reach on a single to lead off the bottom of the fifth but a flyout, a fielder's choice and a caught stealing would end the inning. Robert Basalyga would enter the game to pitch the sixth for the Cougars. Mick Bafunno would draw a leadoff walk but a 5-4-3 double play and a groundout would end the top of the sixth. Chorba would reach on an error with two outs but a strikeout would end the sixth. Basalyga would throw a 1-2-3 top of the seventh. Jones would get a flyout to right for the first out and the Comets would go to Matt Dean in relief. Combs would hit a single then Black, Ryan Cesaroni would draw walks. Alex Savkov would hit a sacrifice fly to right to score Combs for the Cougars first run of the game at 3-1. Jeremy Boyle would draw a walk to load the bases and would be lifted for a pinch runner in Matt Smith. Stafursky would get hit by a pitch to make it 3-2 and Dean Ambosie would come in to pitch for the Comets. The Cougars would bring in Zach Benson to pinch hit. Ambosie would have him at 0-2 and Benson would hit a ball that just hit the edge of the fielder's glove and would score Cesaroni and Smith as the Cougars would take it 4-3.
Thoughts on the game: It was a really good game today. Colby Jones had a great game, throwing 6 1/3 shutout innings. Dixon Black also had a good game on the mound, striking out 5 and walking one. Chico Mendoza and Dean Ambosie each had doubles for Crestwood. Black also had a good game at the plate, going 2 for 2 with a run scored.
Valley View 4 Crestwood 3
Crestwood 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 3
Valley View 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 4
Crestwood
CF/P Ambosie 3 1 1 1
SS Palmiero 3 0 1 0
3B/P Dean 3 0 0 0
CF Schwartz 0 0 0 0
LF Bafunno 2 0 0 0
P Jones 0 0 0 0
3B Albee 0 0 0 0
DH Petrochko 2 1 0 0
2B Papura 2 0 0 0
1B Caladie 3 0 1 0
C Geroski 2 0 0 1
RF Mendoza 3 1 1 0
2B: Mendoza, Ambosie
Valley View
CF Kovalchik 4 0 1 0
SS Combs 4 1 2 0
P/2B Black 2 1 2 0
LF Cesarini 3 1 0 0
3B Savkov 3 0 0 1
C Boyle 3 0 0 0
PR Smith 0 1 0 0
RF Stafursky 2 0 0 1
1B Sheridan 0 0 0 0
DH Chorba 2 0 1 0
DH Manchak 0 0 0 0
DH Benson 1 0 1 2
2B Doherty 1 0 0 0
P Basalyga 1 0 0 0
Pitching
Crestwood
Jones 6.1 IP 28 BF 0 R 0 ER 4 H 3 K 4 BB
Dean (L) 0.1 IP 6 BF 4 R 4 ER 1 H 0 K 3 BB
Ambosie 0+ IP 1 BF 0 R 0 ER 1 H 0 K 0 BB
Valley View
Black 5 IP 21 BF 3 R 3 ER 3 H 5 K 1 BB
Basalyga (W) 2 IP 6 BF 0 R 0 ER 0 H 0 K 1 BB
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