The Northwest Rangers traveled to Mountain Top to take on the Crestwood Comets on Thursday afternoon. Both teams are looking to tune up their games for the upcoming District 2 Playoffs. Northwest is coming off a loss on Wednesday to Wyoming Seminary. Crestwood is coming off a victory over Scranton on Wednesday. Northwest would go to John Krzywicki on the mound. Colby Jones would get the start for the Crestwood Comets.
Sam Saxe would draw a leadoff walk then David Piestrak would follow with a walk but Jones would settle down and retire the next three batters to keep the Rangers off the scoreboard. Krzywicki would throw a 1-2-3 bottom of the first for the Rangers. Jones would throw a 1-2-3 second for the Comets. Mick Bafunno would lead off by getting hit by a pitch and would steal second, a flyout would move Bafunno to third then Brad Papura would draw a walk. Bafunno would score on an errant pickoff to first for a 1-0 Crestwood lead, moving Papura to second. Papura would move to third on a wild pitch. Stew Caladie would bring home Papura with an RBI single and leading 2-0. After a fielder's choice, Chico Mendoza would draw a walk but a strikeout would end the inning. Sam Saxe would hit a one out single. After a strikeout, Curtis Gregory and Tommy Antolik would reach on errors to load the bases but a groundout to short would end the threat. Mike Palmiero would draw a leadoff walk, would steal second and go to third on a wild pitch. After a flyout, Mick Bafunno would hit a sacrifice fly to center to score Palmiero for a 3-0 Crestwood lead. Derek Petrochko and Papura would draw walks but a groundout would end the inning. Jones would strike out the side in the fourth for the Comets. Chico Mendoza would hit a one out single then Dean Ambosie would draw a walk but a strikeout and a fielder's choice would end the inning. Jones would throw a 1-2-3 fifth for the Comets. Bafunno would hit a leadoff single and advance to second on a passed ball and go to third on a groundout. Papura would bring home Bafunno with a single for a 4-0 lead. Caladie would then hit a double to move Papura to third. Mike Geroski would hit a double to score Papura and Caladie for a 6-0 Crestwood lead. Sam Saxe would come in to pitch for the Rangers and would get a flyout and a groundout to end the fifth. Dean Ambosie would come in to pitch the sixth for the Comets. Gregory would hit a double to lead off the sixth. Antolik would reach on an error that would move Gregory to third. Nick Wilson would hit a single to put the Rangers on the board, scoring Antolik. Joey Noss would hit a single. After a strikeout, Kevin Boyer would reach on an error that would score Antolik to make it 6-2 but a strikeout and a popout would end the top of the sixth. Palmiero would hit a single then steal second and go to third on a throwing error. Matt Dean would hit a single to score Palmiero for a 7-2 Crestwood lead. Mick Bafunno would reach on an error. After a strikeout, Papura would draw a walk to load the bases. Caladie would hit a sacrifice fly to left to score Dean for an 8-2 lead. A flyout would end the inning. Ambosie would get the first two outs and the Comets would go to Mike Palmiero to finish up the game. Antolik would hit a single but Palmiero would get a groundout to end the game as the Comets would take an 8-2 home victory over Northwest.
Thoughts on the game: For Crestwood, Colby Jones pitched fantastic. He struck out eight and had two walks while throwing five innings of shutout ball. Stew Caladie had a great game at the plate, going 2 for 3 with a double and two RBIs. Curtis Gregory had a good game with a double and a run scored.
Crestwood 8 Northwest 2
Northwest 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2
Crestwood 0 2 1 0 3 2 x 8
Northwest
2B/P Saxe 3 0 1 0
SS Piestrak 3 0 0 0
CF/2B Gregory 4 1 1 0
LF/C Antolik 4 1 1 0
P/CF Krzywicki 1 0 0 0
DH Ridgley 2 0 0 0
DH Wilson 1 0 1 1
DH Copko 0 0 0 0
C Mott 2 0 0 0
3B Noss 1 0 1 0
1B Capece 3 0 0 0
RF Boyle 3 0 0 0
3B Pierontoni 1 0 0 0
LF Tarnowski 2 0 0 0
2B: Gregory
Crestwood
CF/P/SS Ambosie 3 0 0 0
SS/P Palmiero 3 2 1 0
3B Dean 4 1 1 1
LF Bafunno 2 2 1 1
P Jones 0 0 0 0
CF Schwartz 0 0 0 0
DH Petrochko 3 0 0 0
2B Papura 1 2 1 1
1B Caladie 3 1 2 2
C Geroski 4 0 1 2
RF Mendoza 2 0 1 0
2B: Caladie, Geroski
Pitching
Northwest
Krzywicki (L) 4.1 IP 6 R 6 ER 6 H 3 K 6 BB
Saxe 1.2 IP 2 R 1 ER 2 H 1 K 1 BB
Crestwood
Jones (W) 5 IP 0 R 0 ER 1 H 8 K 2 BB
Ambosie 1.2 IP 2 R 1 ER 3 H 2 K 0 BB
Palmiero 0.1 IP 0 R 0 ER 1 H 0 K 0 BB
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