BOALSBURG – The Clearfield American Legion Post 6 baseball team had plenty of baserunners against State College hurler Dalton Bown Wednesday evening at the Shaner Complex, but Cole Kephart was the only Chief to touch home plate as the hosts won the Central Penn League West Division game 11-1.
Tanner Ogden got to Bowen for three singles while Jon Janocko and Thomas Summers had two hits apiece as the Chiefs collected 10 safeties off Bown, who also issued a pair of walks but struck out seven.
Manager Sid Lansberry’s Chiefs stranded nine runners, only three in scoring position, in falling to 4-3.
Kephart walked and scored Clearfield’s lone run on a double by Summers in the second inning .
Janocko made his first start for the Chiefs and gave up eight hits and six runs, five earned.
State College tacked on five runs, three earned, against Summers in the fifth before Devin Jones came on to put out the fire.
Tanner Witter had three of the winners’ 12 hits and scored three runs.
Kyle Lebarron drove in three runs with a single and a double while Bown aided his own cause with a two-run double.
John Herzing and Derek Van Horn chipped in two hits apiece.
Clearfield, 3-3 in the CPL, will go on the road again Friday to play Penns Valley.
CLEARFIELD — 1
Kyler Kephart 2b 4-0-0-0, Tanner Ogden cf 4-0-3-0, Jon Janocko p-1b 4-0-2-0, Ronny Ogden c 4-0-0-0, Cole Kephart ss 2-1-1-0, Coleman Kubala 3b 2-0-0-0, Derek Hryn ph 1-0-0-0, Thomas Summers 1b-p 2-0-2-0, Devin Jones p 1-0-0-0, Wyatt Westen rf 2-0-1-0, Curtis Collins lf 3-0-1-0. TOTALS: 29-1-10-1.
STATE COLLEGE — 11
Tanner Witter cf 3-3-3-0, Scout Droske cf 0-0-0-0, John Herzing 2b 3-1-2-1, Kyle Lebarron 1b 4-1-2-3, Kenny Craig 3b 3-1-0-1, Nick Smith 3b 0-0-0-0, Dalton Bown p 4-1-1-2, Derek Van Horn lf 2-1-2-1, Nick Harner ph 1-0-1-0, Alex Singer ss 3-1-1-1, Ben Ripka ph 1-0-0-0, Jon Bergman c 2-1-0-0, Ed Goodall ph 1-0-0-0, Shawn O’Melia rf 3-1-0-0, Zack Smeal ph 1-0-0-0. TOTALS: 31-11-12-9.
Score by Innings
Clearfield 010 000 0 – 1 10 2
State College 410 150 x – 11 12 1
Errors – C. Kephart, Kubala; Bergman. PB – R. Ogden 1. DP – State College 2 (Herzing, Singer and Lebarron; Bown and Singer). LOB – Clearfield 9; State College 6. 2B – Summers; Lebarron, Bown, VanHorn, Harner. 3B – Singer. Sac – Witter.
Pitching
Clearfield – Janocko 4 IP, 8 H, 6 R, 5 ER, 0 BB, 1 K; Summers 2/3 IP 3 H, 5 R, 3 ER, 3 BB, 0 K; Jones 1-1/3 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 K.
State College – Bown 7 IP, 10 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 7 K.
HB – Janocko 1 (Herzing). WP – Summers 1
W – Bown. L – Janocko (0-1).