CURWENSVILLE – Bobby Oeler pitched a four-inning no-hitter and Philipsburg-Osceola scored in every inning to defeat Curwensville 11-1 in District 5 Northern Tier Little League 11-and-12 Division All-Star action at William Beyer Memorial Field Thursday evening.
P-O, which was the home team on the flip of a coin, tallied four runs in the bottom of the fourth to invoke the Mercy Rule.
Oeler struck out 10 and walked two, losing a shutout in the second inning when Kyle Johns reached base on an error and eventually scored on a double steal.
Luther Harlow and Travis Arnold each had two hits and drove in two runs for P-O, which totaled 10 hits off Johns and Ricky Magnuson.
Harlow, Cody Ammerman, Chris Thompson and Caleb Pepperday had RBI-doubles for the winners, who will host Clearfield in a winner\’s bracket semifinal Saturday.
Curwensville will go to Stormstown to face Tri-County in a loser\’s bracket first-round game at Half-Moon Township Field.
CURWENSVILLE — 1
Tanner Elensky 3b-2b 2000, Sam Bressler 2b-cf 2000, Brett Gardner ss 2000, Kyle Johns p-3b 2100, Ricky Magnuson 1b-cf-p 2000, Trey McKenzie c 1000, Harrison Bloom lf 1000, Jake Lancaster lf 0000, Alex Olson cf 1000, A.J. Bloom 1b 0000, Tyler Mays rf 0000. TOTALS: 13 1 0 0.
PHILIPSBURG-OSCEOLA — 11
Eric Burge c-2b 3110, Travis Arnold ss 2222, Bobby Oeler p 2211, Luther Harlow 1b 3122, Cody Ammerman 2b 3011, Tanner Wilson 2b 1100, Lewis Jones c 10001, Nick Gray 3b 3110, Tanner Lamb rf 1110, Chris Thompson rf 1111, Aaron Mason lf 1100, Caleb Pepperday 1011. TOTALS: 23 11 10 9.
Score by Innings
Curwensville 010 0 – 1 0 3
P-O 232 4 – 11 10 1
Errors – Bressler, Gardner, Bloom; Ammerman. LOB – Curwensville 2; P-O 5. 2B – Harlow, Ammerman, Thompson, Pepperday. SF – Jones. SB – Mays, Johns 2, McKenzie.
Pitching
Curwensville – Johns 3+ IP (Faced 3 batters in 4th), 8 H, 10 R, 4 BB, 6 K; Magnuson 2/3 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 BB, 0 K.
P-O – Oeler 4 IP, 0 H, 1 R, 2 BB, 10 K.
W – Oeler (1-0). L – Johns (0-1).
