DUBOIS — After the Clearfield American Legion Post 6 baseball team erased a three-run deficit in the top of the seventh inning, Nick LaBrasca singled home Drew Bankovich with one out in the bottom of the frame to give DuBois a 7-6 win at Showers Field Tuesday evening.
The Chiefs, 1-2 in consecutive games that have ended in walk-off fashion, fell to 5-4 in the Jefferson County League with three of the losses by one run.
Seth Bumbarger pounded two doubles, Allan Myers had two singles and Reese Wilson and Jake Sorbera drove in two runs apiece for Clearfield.
The Chiefs gained a short-lived 2-1 lead in the top of the second on Sorbera’s bases-loaded forceout and a double steal with courtesy runner Zane Morgan on the scoring end.
However, the hosts responded immediately with a four-spot, though only one of the runs off Will Myers was earned because of two Clearfield errors. Brendan Foley and Drew Bankovich had RBI singles.
The teams traded singletons in the fourth inning, and the score remained 6-3 until the Chiefs created the tie in the final frame.
Sorbera, who had delivered a sacrifice fly in the fourth, ignited the last-ditch rally with a double. With one out, Harrison Peacock singled and moved into scoring position on a groundout. Wilson plated both runners with a single, then stole second and scored on Bumbarger’s double.
Wilson, who had wiggled out of a bases-loaded, one-out situation with a strikeout and a groundout after relieving Myers in the sixth inning, was tagged with the loss when Bankovich singled for his third hit, Mitch Ferra dropped down a sacrifice bunt and LaBrasca followed with the game-winning hit.
Myers totaled 107 pitches through five innings, walking six and giving up eight hits and six runs, three earned. He struck out two.
Clearfield returns to Showers Field Wednesday for a make-up game.
CLEARFIELD — 6
Reese Wilson cf-p 4112, Seth Bumbarger 1b 4021, Bryce Timko rf 4000, Allan Myers c 3120, Will Myers p-ss 1200, Zane Morgan cr 0000, Brandon Orsich eh 3010, Jake Sorbera 3b-cf 2112, Alec Graham lf 2000, Cade Walker lf 1000, Harrison Peacock ss-3b 3110, Justin Fedder 2b 3010. TOTALS: 30 6 9 5.
DUBOIS — 7
Drew Bankovich 3b 3331, Mitch Ferra cf 3010, Nick LaBrasca 1b 5012, Ryan Pasternak rf 4121, Pete Foradora lf 3020, Ethan Long c 3020, Noah Schneider p 3101, Drew Buskirk 2b 4100, Brendan Foley ss 3111. TOTALS: 31 7 12 6.
Score by Innings
Clearfield 020 100 3 – 6 9 2
DuBois 140 100 1 – 7 12 1
E – W. Myers, Sorbera; Pasternak. PB – Long. DP – Clearfield 1 (Peacock, Fedder and Bumbarger). LOB – Clearfield 6; DuBois 12. 2B – Bumbarger 2, Sorbera. 3B – Bankovich. Sac – Ferra. SF – Sorbera. SB – Morgan 2, Sorbera, Fedder.
Pitching
Clearfield – W. Myers 5 IP, 8 H, 6 R, 3 ER, 6 BB, 2 K; Wilson 1-1/3 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 1 K.
DuBois – Schneider 7 IP, 9 H, 6 R, 5 ER, 2 BB, 7 K.
WP – W. Myers 1.
W – Schneider. L – Wilson (0-1).