HYDE – James Zimmermann and Adam Jury slugged home runs and totaled nine runs driven in to spark Clearfield to a crucial 15-9 win over front-running DuBois in Jefferson County Legion Baseball League action at the Bison Sports Complex Monday evening.
The Post 6 Chiefs all but locked up third place with their 10th victory in 15 games while handing the JCL leaders only their third loss in 16 outings.
Manager Sid Lansberry\’s team still is very much in the hunt for second place as Punxsutawney currently shows four losses. The Chiefs visit Punxsy\’s Rich Kuntz Memorial Field Wednesday for a 6 p.m. make-up game.
Zimmermann ignited a 10-run first inning against two DuBois hurlers with a two-run homer and singled in two more runs later before Jury capped the outburst with a three-run homer.
Zimmermann, Derek Danver and Justin Hoffman had three hits apiece for the Post 6 Chiefs, who scored their other five runs in the second inning for a 15-2 bulge. Hoffman, who doubled, had a pair of RBIs.
Clearfield was held to three hits in its last four at-bats by T.J. Anderson, and the Chiefs\’ lead shrunk to 15-8 in the fifth when Peterson whacked a three-run homer and Garrett Marsh smacked a solo shot to chase Jury, who was making his first mound appearance of the season.
The right-hander came on because starter Michael Moyer departed after one scoreless inning because of a sore arm.
Southpaw Corey Bookhamer, coming off a six-inning stint against Brookville in the Clearfield Legion Independence Day Invitational Saturday, replaced Jury and gave up a run on three singles in the sixth.
When Les Miller and Jordan LaBue opened the seventh with singles, Lansberry switched to Justin Hoffman, and he set down the visitors on an infield pop-up, a fly to left and a grounder to short to make Jury the winner.
Miller had socked a two-run homer in the second inning, and LaBue had a two-run single in the fifth.
Kasey Clinton led DuBois\’ 13-hit attack with three singles.
Clearfield, 13-10 overall, has a home game with Reynoldsville (3-10) Thursday and a road game with Curwensville Saturday at Hepburnia.
DUBOIS — 9
John Wayland cf 5020, T.J. Anderson ss-p 5120, Richie Pruzinsky rf 5100, Kasey Clinton 1b-3b 3131, Phil Smith 3b-p-2b 2000, Peterson 2b 2113, Mario Gregorio dh 2000, John Hartzfeld p-1b 0000, Garrett Marsh 2b-ss 3311, Les Miller c 3222, Jordan LaBue lf 4022. TOTALS: 34 9 13 9.
CLEARFIELD — 15
Jarrin Campman cf-rf-cf 0301, James Zimmermann 2b 5235, Adam Jury ss-p-ss 2214, Parker Herrington dh-rf 2100, Michael Moyer p 0000, Corey Bookhamer 1b-p 0000, Kyle Kline 1b-ss-1b 3101, Derek Danver 3b 4131, Aaron Sayers rf 2201, Tanner St. Clair lf 1000, Justin Hoffman lf-rf-p 4232, David Ryan cf 0000, Matt Lonjin c 2100, Wil Bacharach c 1010. TOTALS: 26 15 11 15.
Score by Innings
DuBois 0 20 241 0 – 9 13 0
Clearfield (10)50 000 x – 15 11 0
DP – DuBois 2 (Marsh, Smith and Hartzfeld; Clinton, Smith and Hartzfeld); Clearfield 1 (Danver, Zimmermann and Kline). LOB – DuBois 8; Clearfield 6. 2B – Anderson; Hoffman. HR – Peterson, Marsh, Miller; Zimmerman (3), Jury (5). Sac – Campman.
Pitching
DuBois – Hartzfeld 0+ IP (faced 5 batters in 1st), 1 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 4 BB, 0 K; Smith 1 IP, 7 H, 10 R, 10 ER, 3 BB, 1 K; Anderson 5 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 2 K.
Clearfield – Moyer 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 0 K; Jury 3-1/3 IP, 7 H, 8 R, 5 ER, 2 BB, 1 K; Bookhamer 1-2/3 IP, 5 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 1 K; Hoffman 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 K.
HB – Smith 2 (Campman, Jury), Anderson 1 (Campman). WP – Smith 1; Bookhamer 1, Hoffman 1. Balk – Smith 1.
W – Jury (1-0). L – Hartzfeld.
Umpires – Jay Siegel (home plate), Gary Snyder (bases).
