BRADFORD – Senior shortstop Derek Danver cracked four hits, including a home run, and drove in four runs as the Clearfield Area High School baseball team pulled down the curtain on the regular season by outlasting Bradford 11-9 in non-league action Saturday afternoon.
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The No. 2 batter and his three classmates at the top of the order came through big time for coach Sid Lansberry’s Bisons, who will take a 9-10 record into the District 9 Class AAA Playoffs.
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Jarrett Fulmer got the job done in the leadoff spot by reaching base on two hits, a walk and an error and scoring all four times, while Andrew Redden had two triples, two RBIs and scored two runs and Tyler Jacobson added a pair of sacrifice flies.
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Fulmer also pitched three innings to save the win for Trevor Flanagan.
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Clearfield changed the score in every inning except the fifth but couldn’t put the Owls away.
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Danver got the Bisons rolling with his fifth home run of the season after Fulmer started the make-up game with a double. Redden followed with a triple and scored on Jacobson’s sac fly.
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Bradford answered with run-scoring doubles by Steve Wilber and Aaron Fishkin, and the two teams matched singletons the next two frames.
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For Clearfield, Steve Miller walked and scored on Danver’s single in the second, and Flanagan singled and scored on an error in the third.
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Aided by a wild pitch and two errors, the Bisons padded their lead to 7-4 in the fourth without a hit.
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Jacobson’s second sac fly plated Fulmer with another unearned run in the sixth.
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With two outs in the seventh, the Bisons added another trio on Danver’s RBI single and Redden’s two-run triple for a seemingly comfortable 11-6 advantage.
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However, a hit batsman, hits by Wilber and Fishkn and two wild pitches by Fulmer netted Bradford three runs, and Tom Smith’s two-out single brought the tying run to the plate. Fulmer went to a full count on Anthony Zimbardi before retiring him on a fly ball for the Bisons’ first save of the year.
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Flanagan worked four innings for his fourth victory, giving up seven hits and four earned runs. He struck out two Owls, walked one and hit one.
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CLEARFIELD — 11
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Jarrett Fulmer 2b-p 4420, Derek Danver ss 5244, Andrew Redden 5222, Tyler Jacobson 3b-2b 3002, Trevor Flanagan p 3120, Drew Brown lf 3000, Kyler Kephart 1b 4010, Kurtis Krise rf 0000, Steve Miller dh 3100, Shane Harper cf 2000, Coleman Kubala ph 0100. TOTALS: 32 11 12 8.
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BRADFORD — 9
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Colton Holzwarth rf-c 3022, Jordan Harrington ss-p 4100, Connor Borowski 1b 2211, Mike Wilber pr 0000, Steve Wilber p-ss 4222, Aaron Fishkin lf 3121, Kyle Viola 2b 3100, Dan Rinfrette cf 3210, Tom Smith 3b 4021, Randy Ruffner c 1000, Sean Mooney ph 0000, Nunzio Cavallero pr 0000, Anthony Zimbardi rf 2011. TOTALS: 29 9 11 8.
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Score by Innings
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Clearfield   311 201 3 – 11 11 2
Bradford    211 002 3 – 9 11 3
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Errors – Fulmer, Redden; Harrington, S. Wilber, Viola. LOB – Clearfield 8; Bradford 6. 2B – Fulmer; Holzwarth, S. Wilber 2; Fishkin. 3B – Redden 2. HR – Danver (5); Borowski. Sac – Harper. SF – Jacobson 2; Holzwarth. SB – Rinfrette.
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Pitching
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Clearfield – Flanagan 4 IP, 7 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 1 BB, 2 K; Fulmer 3 IP, 4 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 1 BB, 2 K.
Bradford – S. Wilber 3+ IP (faced 1 batter in 4th), 6 H, 6 R, 4 ER, 3 BB, 2 K; Harrington 4 IP, 5 H, 5 R, 4 ER, 1 BB, 1 K.
HB – Fulmer 4 (Borowski 2, Fishkin, Rinfrette); Harrington 1 (Flanagan). WP – Flanagan 1, Fulmer 2; S. Wilber 1, Harrington 2.
W – Flanagan (4-2). L – S. Wilber. Save – Fulmer (1). PO – Flanagan 1 (Fishkin).
