PUNXSUTAWNEY – A chance to tighten the Jefferson County Legion League chase for second place and home field advantage for the first round of the playoffs went by the boards for Clearfield Sunday evening when Punxsutawney scored in every inning to triumph 13-5 at Rich Kuntz Memorial Field.
Heavy rains forced the nightcap to be suspended after three innings with the Chiefs leading 17-5. The teams may try to complete the game when Clearfield hosts Punxsy Wednesday. If not, the Chiefs will return to the Frank Fairman Complex at a later date.
Clearfield could have taken second place away from Punxsy with a victory, but the hosts combined 11 hits with eight walks, a hit batsman and four errors to improve to 9-3.
Manager Sid Lansberry\’s Chiefs, who had won three games in a row, slipped to 8-5 in the JCL and 9-11 for the season.
Winning pitcher Tommy Bush socked four hits, including two triples, and Jacob Stumpf drove in three runs with a single and a double to spark the attack.
Bush, staked to a 3-1 lead after one frame and 8-2 after three, worked sixth innings, giving up just five hits while striking out five and walking five.
Braedon Pennington finished up, surrendering three runs in the sixth, two on Tanner St. Clair\’s second double of the game.
St. Clair had three of Clearfield\’s nine hits, while Andrew Redden cracked two doubles.
Tyler Jacobson took the loss, allowing two earned runs in one inning. Derek Danver pitched four innings before giving way to Redden in the sixth.
Clearfield faces another busy week with home games against Reynoldsville Monday and Thursday, DuBois Tuesday and Punxsutawney Wednesday and a road game against DuBois Friday.
CLEARFIELD — 5
Justin Hoffman rf 4200, Aaron Sayers cf 4100, Corey Bookhamer 3110, Tanner St. Clair lf-3b 3132, Derek Danver ss-p 3011, Tyler Jacobson p-ss 0000, Andrew Redden dh 2021, Matt Lonjin c 4000, Trevor Flanagan 3b 2000, Justyn Knepp lf 2010, Luke Peterson 2b 1000, Kyler Kephart 2b 2010. TOTALS: 30 5 9 4.
PUNXSUTAWNEY — 13
Dakota Bish c 1100, Dom Bevak c 1001, Braedon Pennington lf-cf-p 5321, Tommy Bush p-cf 4241, Jacob Stumpf cf 3123, Tyler Neal lf 0000, Tyler Wingard 1b 1000, Sam Levy 1b 2111, Sean Smith 3b 1100, Joe Pisano 3b 2000, Devan Neal rf 1010, Brody Lowmaster rf 1100, Dylan Kachmar ss 2100, Zach Dickey ss 1100, Kyle Neal 2b 2111, Jordan Mesoraco 2b 1000. TOTALS: 28 13 11 7.
Score by Innings
Clearfield 101 003 0 – 5 9 4
Punxsutawney 314 122 x – 13 11 1
Errors – Danver 2, Lonjin, Kephart; Mesoraco. PB – Lonjin 1; Bevak 1. LOB – Clearfield 11; Punxsutawney 7. 2B – St. Clair 2, Redden 2; Stumpf. 3B – Bush 2. SF – Danver; Bevak. SB – Pennington, Bush, Levy, Kachmar.
Pitching
Clearfield – Jacobson 1 IP, 2 H, 3 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 0 K; Danver 4 IP, 8 H, 8 R, 7 ER, 4 BB, 2 K; Redden 1 IP, 0 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 0 K.
Punxsutawney – Bush 6 IP, 5 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 5 BB, 5 K; Pennington 2 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 3 K.
HB – Redden 1 (Lowmaster). WP – Danver 1.
W – Bush. L – Jacobson (0-2).
