Bison’s Janocko Homers Twice in 15-8 Loss to Mounties

HYDE — Relatively quiet in three defeats, Philipsburg-Osceola’s bats came to life against Tyrone Monday and then really exploded against Clearfield in schoolboy baseball action at the Bison Sports Complex Tuesday.

The Mounties nullified another good start by the Bison and pulled away to 15-8 win with a 16-hit assault on three Bison pitchers that included five extra base blows.

The big ones were two-run homers by Mark Curtis in the first inning and Matt Carpin in the final frame.

Overshadowed by P-O’s relentless attack was a  power display by Clearfield’s Jon Janocko.

The Bison junior, who had two doubles and three RBIs in a 6-5 loss to DuBois Monday, whacked a pair of two-run homers.

He also singled and registered a fifth run batted in with a bases-loaded walk.

“Jon had another good day at the plate, for sure,” Clearfield coach Sid Lansberry said. “That’s two productive days in a row for him.”

However, the Bison had only four more hits, two by Spencer Herrington with one of those a grounder that hit base umpire Rob Murphy.

“We’re just not getting production down through the order, and we’re leaving too many men on base,” Lansberry lamented.

 Aided by 11 walks and two hit batsmen, the Bison had runners in scoring position in every inning.

They stranded 13 in falling to 1-6.

Early on, the Mountain League game was eerily similar to Monday’s tough loss for the Bison.

They were down 2-0 before they came to bat, up 5-2 after two innings and down by one in the next inning.

Unlike unbeaten DuBois, P-O didn’t stop pounding the ball.

The Mounties (2-3) padded their lead to 8-5 on Tanner Lamb’s two-run single in the fourth and 13-6 when Taylor Golemboski’s two-run double keyed a five-run uprising in the fifth. Those were two of the visitors’ six opposite-field hits.

“P-O had a lot of two-strike hits and hits on pitcher’s counts,” Lansberry noted. “They dug in and went the other way with the ball, good hitting on their part.”

Most of the damage was done by the top of the order.

Golemboski, Lamb, Carpin and Curtis combined for 11 hits and 13 RBIs. The quartet also scored 10 runs.

Lamb singled four times, drove in three runs and scored three. Carpin had three hits and three RBIs. Curtis matched Janocko’s five RBIs in a duel of designated clean-up hitters. And Golemboski had two hits, two RBIs and three runs scored.

Lansberry cited the bottom of the first inning as a key to the outcome.

The Bison knotted the score when Mountie starter Mitch Winters walked three of the first four batters and Wyatt Westen singled to short center field.

Winters proceeded to wiggle out of the bases-loaded the jam with three consecutive strikeouts.

“We’ve done that more than once this year,” Lansberry said. “We can’t be doing that. We’ve got to get those runs in.

“The momentum could have shifted in that inning.”

Clearfield did take the short-lived lead in the second, thanks to a P-O misplay on Herrington’s grounder that allowed Josh Kennedy, the courtesy runner for Jonas Kochan, to score prior to Janocko’s circuit blast to left.

The Mounties surged right back in front with four runs and four hits, one a two-run double by Curtis, and never looked back.

Nick Gray got the win in relief of Winters, working four innings and surrendering only three hits and one run. Caleb Pepperday pitched the final frame and was the victim of Janocko’s second homer but struck out two.

Thomas Summers was the starter and loser for Clearfield. Westen and Devin Jones pitched in relief, with the latter striking out five and walking one in 2-2/3 innings. 

The Bison will play their third home game in a row Friday when Central visits the BSC.

Winning pitcher Logan Lykens and Zach Krise each had three hits to lead the Clearfield junior varsity to a 14-2 victory.

Mountain League standings – Bald Eagle Area 6-0, Bellefonte 2-2, Penns Valley 2-2, Huntingdon 2-2, Central 2-2, Philipsburg-Osceola 2-3, Tyrone 2-4, Clearfield 1-4.

PHILIPSBURG-OSCEOLA — 15

Taylor Golemboski lf 4322, Tanner Lamb 5343, Matt Carpin cf 5233, Tanner Wilson ss 0000, Mark Curtis dh 4225, Travis Arnold 2b 4001, Curtis Matsko 1b-rf 5131, Mitch Winters p 2000, Nick Gray p 3000, Cody Ammerman 1b 0000, Caleb Pepperday rf-p 3210, Derek Shaw c 3210.  TOTALS: 38  15  16  15.

CLEARFIELD — 8

Cole Kephart ss 4100, Spencer Herrington 2b 3320, Thomas Summers p-1b 3000, Erik Sellers 1b-3b 0000, Devin Jones p 0000, Jon Janocko dh 4235, Wyatt Westen 3b-p-3b 3111, Curtis Collins lf 4000, Sawyer Rowles 3011, Kaleb Taylor 1000, Zach Timchak rf 2000, Josh Kenned rf 0000, Jonas Kochan c 1100, Josh Sorbera c 1000.  TOTALS: 29  8  7  7

Score by Innings

Philipsburg-Osceola  204 250 2 – 15  16  3
Clearfield                 230 100 2 –  8   7  3
E – Lamb 2, Shaw; Kephart, Summers 2. PB – Shaw. DP – Philipsburg-Osceola 1 (Wilson, Arnold and Matsko). LOB – Philipsburg-Osceola 7; Clearfield 13. 2B – Golemboski, Matsko, Shaw. HR – Carpin, Curtis; Janocko 2 (3). SB – Lamb; Kephart, Westen 2, Rowles, Kennedy.

Pitching

Philipsburg-Osceola – Winters 2 IP, 3 H, 5 R, 2 ER, 4 BB, 4 K; Gray 4 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 6 BB, 2 K; Pepperday 1 IP, 1 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 3 K.

Clearfield – Summers 3+ IP (faced 2 batters in 4th), 7 H, 8 R, 8 ER, 1 BB, 3 K; Westen 1-1/3 IP, 5 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 2 BB, 1 K; Jones 2-2/3 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 5 K.HB – Winters 2 (Summers, Westen); Summers 1 (Pepperday). WP – Westen 1.

W – Gray. L – Summers (1-3).

Umpires – Jay Siegel (plate) and Rob Murphy (bases).

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