ALLPORT—-What a sweet year so far for Curwensville baseball head coach Ryan Briskar. In his first year as boss of the Golden Tide his squad is now 11-4 and on Tuesday afternoon they brought home the 2007 Moshannon Valley League title. It was all business as Curwensville crushed the West Branch Warriors 16-5. The loss leaves West Branch at the .500 mark on the year with a 7-7 overall record.
Catcher Cory Bloom had three hits for the Tide, while Trevor Horton and Nate McGary each had two hits. McGary along with Brett McCracken drove in three runs apiece. Coupled with the thirteen hits for the Golden Tide were 4 Warrior errors and 6 walks which had runs coming in bunches. Curwensville didn’t score until the third inning when they put four on the board. Then they just didn’t stop as they tallied five in the fourth, three in the fifth and two each in the sixth and seventh.
The Tide also stole seven bases on the afternoon rout.
West Branch was led by Justin Shive, Lance Kolesar, Frank Norris and Tyler Meersand with two hits each. Shive had the big hit for the Warriors, a 4th inning two run homer. Shive and Norris drove in two runs each out of the five scored by West Branch.
Winning the Moshannon Valley League had coach Briskar saying, “ Well, that certainly is one of the many goals we have here at Curwensville, and it sure is nice to grab that one.” Briskar also said, “We played well again today, hit the ball hard, and ran the bases exceptionally smart.” The first year coach praised third baseman Andrew Straw, “Andrew has played very well at third base for us recently and today may have been his finest effort.”
Curwensville beat West Branch 2-1 in their first game of year and the win yesterday gives them the season sweep of the Warriors. The Tide are back in action on Thursday at St. Mary’s to battle the Flying Dutch at 4:15. Remember, follow Curwensville baseball on line at…….http://curwensville.schoolwires.com
CURWENSVILLE – 16 Ben McGary p 2310, Nate McGary lf 4323, Brett McCracken ss 4103, Justin Johnston ph 1110, Trevor Horton 3022, Derek Dixon pr 0100, Andrew Straw 3b 0000, Jesse Hoover ph 0100, Justin McGary 2b 3001, Erik Martell ph 1000, Mark Dellantonio 1b 3111, Brett Sutika ph 1000, Sam Gardner cf 3110, Jonathan Michaels ph 1000, Tyler Johns ph 0000, Andrew Starr cf 0000, Cory Bloom c 4031, Wes McGarry ph 1212, Brandon Hess rf 2211 and Nick Opaliski ph 1000.
WEST BRANCH – 5 Tyler Meersand lf 3020, Chris Beveridge lf 1000, Chris Dotts rf 3010, Wesesky rf 0000, Jon Demchak ss/p 4010, Keatin Gaines p/ss 4000, Lance Kolesar 3b 3220, Jesse Husted cf 4100, Frank Norris 1b 3122, Cuneo 1b 1000, Justin Shive 2b 3122, Ethan Lidgett c 2000 and Kanouff c 1000.
SCORE BY INNINGS R H E
CURWENSVILLE 004 532 2 16 13 3
WEST BRANCH 010 310 0 5 10 4
ERRORS-J. McGary, Straw, B. McCracken, Shive, Norris, Gaines and Meersand. DP-None. LOB-Curwensville 8 and West Branch 9. 2B- J.Johnston, W. McGarry. HR-Shive (4th inning, 2 run). SAC-None. SB-W. McGarry 2, B. McGary, N. McGary, Dixon, Dellantonio and Hess. HBP-Johns (Demchak)
PITCHING
CURWENSVILLE B.McGary 7IP, 10H, 5R, 4ER, 1BB, 5K.
WEST BRANCH Gaines 3+IP, 3H, 6R, 3ER, 4BB, 4K.
Demchak 4IP, 10H, 10R, 6ER, 2BB, 2K.
WP-B. McGary LP-Gaines