CURWENSVILLE—-The Curwensville Golden Tide crossed home plate 31 times Monday afternoon in sweeping a doubleheader from the Harmony Owls. The first game was shortened after 4 ½ innings due to the mercy rule 17-6. In the second game Harmony was actually the home team, but that didn’t matter at all, as the Tide cruised again 14-2. With the twin wins Curwensville now stands at 13-5 on the year under head coach Ryan Briskar who said afterwards, “One win a day is great, but being able to bring home two is really sweet. The guys really had the offense going today with Jesse Hoover having a monster day at the plate for us in game two. Hoover has being working hard and it really is paying off.” Briskar also added, “It was very nice to be able to get several young players in both games to get some varsity experience.” Curwensville finishes Moshannon Valley League play with a perfect 8-0 record and now awaits the District 9 pairings which will be coming out sometime today.
In the opening game the Tide scored runs in bunches by picking up 6 in the first, 4 each in the second and third, then throwing in 3 for good measure in the fourth. Harmony did get offensive in the fourth by scoring 6 times, but by then the game was already out of hand for the visiting Owls.
Leading the way in the first game for Curwensville was Nate McGary who went two for three with 2 RBI’s and Derek Dixon going 2 for 2 and driving in 5 runs. Dixon and Joe Bloom each had a double for the Tide. Jesse Hoover and Brandon Hess brought home two runs each in the Tide slugfest. In all Curwensville had twelve hits along with 6 base on balls to fuel the offense. Nate McGary picked up the win for the Tide in relief of Brett McCracken after the Tide put those 6 first inning runs on the scoreboard. Pitcher Evan Hutton had two hits and Daran Peace stroked a double for the Owls who fell to 1-5 in the Moshannon Valley League and 2-11 overall after the double defeat.
In the nightcap it was all about sophomore Jesse Hoover, as the shortstop went 3 for 3 with a triple and a two run seventh inning home run that propelled the Tide to victory. Ben McGary, Brett McCracken, Trevor Horton and Brandon Hess all had two hits for Curwensville. Horton and Ben McGary had doubles, while Hess smacked a triple. Mark Dellantonio, Hess, Brett McCracken all drove in two runs along with Hoover. Justin McGary went six innings to garner the win for the Golden Tide and struck out 11 Owls along the way. Steven Williams had two hits for Harmony, with one being a double. Nathan Brothers was tagged with the loss for the Owls.
Curwensville didn’t really take control of game two until they scored 4 in the top half of the third then added nine more over the final four innings to seal the victory. Curwensville had 14 hits in the second game and was helped along the way with five errors from Harmony.
The Tide travel to DuBois to battle DuBois Central Catholic (DCC) this afternoon for a 4:15 game. DCC won the first game back on April 18th, 6-5.
GAME 1
HARMONY – 6 Ryan Griffin ss 4010, Evan Hutton p 4121, Steven Williams c 2111, Daran Peace 1b 1110, Delwyne Fry cf 1000, Kyle Gallagher 3b 2001, Nathan Brothers 2b 2110, Robert Fry rf 2110 and Brandt Beck lf 3110.
CURWENSVILLE – 17 Ben McGary cf 2101, Justin McGary 2b 3110, Brett Sutika 2b, 0100, Brett McCracken p/ss 2311, Joe Bloom lf 1010, Trevor Horton dh 3210, Mark Dellantonio 1b 1000, Sam Gardner 3b 1000, Nate McGary lf/p/3b 3322, Nick Opaliski lf 0100, Cory Bloom c 1200, Jonathan Michaels c 2000, Andrew Straw 3b 1201, Derek Dixon 1b 2025, Jesse Hoover ss 2112, Tyler Johns ss 2011, Brandon Hess rf 2012 and Erik Martell rf 1011.
SCORE BY INNINGS R H E
HARMONY 000 60x x 6 8 2
CURWENSVILLE 644 3xx x 17 12 1
ERRORS- B. McGary. Williams and Griffin. DP-Curwensville. LOB-Curwensville 5 and Harmony 8. 2B-Bloom, Dixon and Peace. SAC-None. SB- B. McGary
PITCHING
HARMONY Hutton 4 IP, 12H, 17R, 14ER, 6BB, 4K.
CURWENSVILLE B. McCracken 1 IP, 0H, 0R, 0ER, 1BB, 2K.
N. McGary 2 1/3 IP, 6H, 4R, 4ER, 3BB, 4K.
Gardner 1 1/3 IP, 2H, 2R, 2ER, 2BB, 1K.
WP-N. McGary LP- Hutton
GAME 2
CURWENSVILLE – 14 Ben McGary cf 3220, Erik Martell rf 1010, Nate McGary 2b 4000, Brett McCracken 3b 5122, Trevor Horton 1b 4121, Sam Gardner 1b 1000, Joe Bloom dh 4200, Justin McGary p 0000, Justin Johnston p 0000, Cory Bloom c 3011, Nick Opaliski cr 0100, Derek Dixon ph 1000, Jonathan Michaels c 0000, Mark Dellantonio 2b 3212, Jess Hoover ss 3322 and Brandon Hess cf 4222.
HARMONY – 2 Ryan Griffin ss 2211, Evan Hutton 2b 3000, Steven Williams c 3021, Daran Peace 1b/p 3000, Delwyne Fry cf 3000 , Kyle Gallagher 3b 2000, Nathan Brothers p/1b 3010, Robert Fry rf/lf 3000 and Brandt Beck lf/rf 2000.
SCORE BY INNINGS R H E
CURWENSVILLE 014 231 3 14 14 1
HARMONY 001 010 0 2 4 5
ERRORS-Hoover. Gallagher 2 and Griffin 3. DP-Curwensville. LOB-Curwensville 5 and Harmony 6. 2B-B. McGary, Horton and Williams. 3B-Hoover and Hess. HR-Hoover (2run, 7th. inning). SAC-None. SB-Griffin3, B. McCracken 3, B. McGary 2 and J. Bloom.
PITCHING
CURWENSVILLE J. McGary 6 IP, 4H, 2R, 2ER, 3BB, 11K.
J. Johnston 1 IP, 0H, 0R, 0ER, 1BB, 0K.
HARMONY Brothers 3 IP, 6H, 5R, 3ER, 1BB, 1K.
Peace 4 IP, 8H, 9R, 5ER, 2BB, 3K.
WP-J. McGary LP-Brothers