CLEARFIELD – One Clearfield team won and the other lost on opening day in the Clearfield American Legion Independence Day Baseball Invitational Saturday.
Corey Bookhamer and Michael Moyer combined on a two-hitter with 12 strikeouts as the Clearfield Legion Post 6 Chiefs evened their record at 10-10 by trimming Laurel Eye Clinic of Brookville 6-2 in the nightcap of the triple-header at the Lawrence Township Recreation Park Field.
In the opener, delayed nearly one hour because of muddy and soggy field conditions, Mike Pascarella\’s two-run homer in the bottom of the sixth inning lifted the Bradford Legion to an 11-9 win over the Clearfield Babe Ruth League All-Stars after the Post 102 team had overcome an 8-1 third-inning deficit.
Bookhamer held the Brookville Legion Post 102 team to two hits and two earned runs in an outstanding six-inning stint for his second win in four decisions. The left-hander struck 10 and walked only one.
Moyer fanned two of the three batters he faced in the seventh inning.
Clearfield jumped in front 2-0 in the second. Derek Danver walked and scored from first when Aaron Sayers\’ single to right was misplayed. Sayers then scored on Tanner St. Clair\’s groundout.
James Zimmermann reached base on a forceout and circled the sacks on a stolen base, a passed ball and a wild pitch in the third.
Justin Hoffman\’s single and stolen bases and Wil Bacharach\’s double made it 4-1 in the fifth.
With a 4-2 lead in the seventh, the Chiefs produced two insurance runs on Hoffman\’s third hit and RBI-singles by Zimmerman and Parker Herrington.
Chris Beitz singled home Brookville\’s first run in the fourth inning. Dakota Singleton doubled and scored on Brandon Brownlee\’s groundout in the fifth.
The Clearfield BRL 15-year-olds walked to their early lead against Bradford with the help of a dozen free passes from two Post 102 hurlers.
With two outs in the first inning, Derek Danver scored on a wild pitch and Trevor Flanagan walked on four pitches to force in Curtis Frye.
Dan McCracken relieved Josh Lightner and stranded three runners with a strikeout. He added two strikeouts in a 1-2-3 second inning before experiencing control problems with one out in the third.
McCracken issued six consecutive walks on 31 pitches, the easy RBIs going to Luke Peterson, Flanagan and Robert Lombardo.
The Clearfield BRL All-Stars had posted five runs without a hit when Lou Jones went to the mound. One out later, Tyler Jacobson slashed a run-scoring single to left and Jason Bowman cracked a two-run double to right center.
Bases-loaded doubles by Kevin Pautler to right center in the third inning and Cory Viola to deep left center in the fifth fueled the Bradford Legion\’s comeback.
Down 9-8 in the sixth, the Clearfield BRL All-Stars tied the game on Bowman\’s double to right center, Isaac Butler\’s single through the middle and Danver\’s double-play grounder.
Tyler Knepp was tagged with the loss when he walked Pat Pascarella and Mike Pascarella walloped his homer over the fence in dead center.
The \’W\’ went to Jones, who worked 4-1/3 innings and struck out six. He gave up eight hits but allowed only one run.
The Clearfield BRL All-Stars got the tying and winning runs aboard in the seventh when Flanagan singled to deep right, Drew Brown punched a hit to short right center and, with two outs, Bowman walked.
Slater replaced Jones and picked up a one-pitch save as Isaac Butler bounced into a very close force play at second.
LaBrozzi had two singles, a double, a sacrifice fly and three RBIs for the winners. Mike Pascarella collected three hits and scored four times. Brandon Slater added two singles.
Bradford upped its record to 16-5 with a 6-1 victory over Brookville (6-11) in the other game.
Sunday\’s card shows the Clearfield BRL All-Stars playing Laurel Eye Clinic at 11 a.m. and the Clearfield Legion taking on the Bradford Legion at 1:30 p.m. before the all-Clearfield finale at 4 o\’clock.
CLEARFIELD BABE RUTH LEAGUE ALL-STARS — 9
Jason Bowman cf 3122, Isaac Butler eh-1b 5010, Derek Danver ss 2200, Curtis Frye 1b 1200, Tyler Knepp eh-p-2b 0000, Shane Harper rf 1110, Andrew Redden rf 1010, Luke Peterson 2b 1101, Ethan Gillespie 2b-3b 1000, Trevor Flanagan p-eh 2112, Robert Lombardo lf 1101, Drew Brown lf 2010, Matt Lonjin c 3000, Tyler Jacobson 3b-p 4011. TOTALS: 27 9 8 7.
BRADFORD LEGION — 11
Chris Krajewski 1b 3000, Mike Pascarella 3b 3432, Brandon Slater 2b-p 4220, Ryan LaBrozzi ss 3133, Nick Foster cf 2210, Kevin Pautler 4f 4013, Lou Jones eh-p-lf 2110, Cory Viola lf-2b 3013, Josh Lightner p 0000, Dan McCracken 1b-eh 3000, Pat Pascarella c 1100. TOTALS: 28 11 12 11.
Score by Innings
Clearfield BRL All-Stars 206 001 0 – 9 8 0
Bradford Legion 104 042 x – 11 12 1
Error – Lightner. PB – P. Pascarella. Bradford Legion 1 (M. Pascarella, Slater and Krajewski). LOB – Clearfield BRL All-Stars 12; Bradford Legion 7. 2B – Bowman 2; M. Pascarella, LaBrozzi, Pautler, Jones, Viola. HR – Pascarella. Sac – Lonjin; Krajewski. SF – LaBrozzi. SB – M. Pascarella, Slater 2, Foster.
Pitching
Clearfield BRL All-Stars – Flanagan 4-1/2 IP, 9 H, 8 R, 8 ER, 3 BB, 2 K; Knepp 1 IP, 2 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 1 K; Jacobson 2/3 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 1 K.
Bradford Legion – Lightner 2/3 IP, 0 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 6 BB, 0 K; McCracken 1-2/3 IP, 0 H, 6 R, 6 H, 6 BB, 3 K; Jones 4-1/3 IP, 8 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 6 K; Slater 1/3 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 K.
WP – Lightner 1, McCracken 1, Jones 1. Balk – Jones 1.
W – Jones. L – Knepp. Save – Slater.
Umpires – Frank Keenan (home plate); Mark Michelucci (bases).
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CLEARFIELD LEGION — 6
James Zimmermann 2b 4211, Parker Herrington ss 3011, Kyle Kline rf-1b-rf 4000, Derek Danver 3b 2120, Aaron Sayers cf 3120, Tanner St. Clair lf 2001, Andrew Redden lf 0000, Corey Bookhamer p-1b 3000, Justin Hoffman eh 3230, Michael Moyer 1b-p 2000, Kyle Timchak rf 0000, Wil Bacharach c 2021, Matt Lonjin c 1000. TOTALS: 29 6 11 4.
LAUREL EYE CLINIC —- 2
Caleb Worling ss-p 3100, Ryan Zimmerman cf 2000, Dusty Dombrowski p-ss 3000, Chris Beitz 1b 3011, Jared Heschke 3b 3000, Dakota Singleton c 3110, Nick Bishop 2b 0000, Ethan Harmon dh 2000, Dombrowski ph 1000, Brandon Brownlee lf 2001, Chris Gerg rf 2000. TOTALS: 24 2 2 2.
Score by Innings
Clearfield Legion 021 010 2 – 6 11 0
Laurel Eye Clinic 000 110 0 – 2 2 2
Errors – Heschke, Gerg. PB – Singleton 1. DP – Brookville 1 (Bishop, Worling and Beitz). LOB – Laurel Eye Clinic 2; Clearfield 7. 2B – Bacharach; Singleton. Sac – Timchak. SB – Zimmerman, Hoffman.
Pitching
Clearfield Legion – Bookhamer 6 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 10 K; Moyer 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 K.
Laurel Eye Clinic – D. Dombrowski 3 IP, 3 H, 3 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 1 K; Worling 4 IP, 8 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 1 K.
WP – D. Dombrowski 1; Bookhamer 1.
W – Bookhamer (2-2). L – D. Dombrowski.
Umpires – Mike Campbell (home plate), Jim McKee (bases).
