HYDE – Once-beaten Punxsutawney continued to roll toward the 2007 Jefferson County Legion Baseball League regular season championship with a 10-3 win over Clearfield Tuesday evening at the Bison Sports Complex.
The visitors made the most of their scoring opportunities and executed three double plays, two on sacrifice flies, to stifle the Chiefs\’ offense.
Punxsy broke a 1-1 tie with two runs in the third on RBI-groundouts by pitcher Chris Reeseman and Tommy Bush and added two more runs in the fifth on sacrifice flies by the same two players.
At that point, only one of the winners\’ runs off loser Michael Moyer was earned. They added another in the sixth and then put the game away with four more unearned runs in the seventh, two on Dustin Dubensky\’s single.
Zack Martin had a pair of run-scoring singles for Punxsy. Bush and Alex Cressley also had two hits apiece.
Reeseman got the win, allowing two runs and seven hits in five innings. Dubensky closed it out, giving up one hit and one unearned run.
Clearfield had a chance to really make it interesting in the fifth, loading the bases on singles by Corey Bookhamer, David Ryan and Adam Jury. However, Bookhamer was thrown out at the plate on Wil Bacharach\’s flyout to right, David Pisano to relay man Patrick McKee to Martin.
James Zimmermann followed with a single to left for an RBI, but Punxsy center fielder Jacob Stump robbed Jarrin Campman of extra bases and two RBIs with a backhanded grab in deep left center.
Moyer was the tough-luck loser, giving up just two earned runs. Six of Punxsy\’s nine hits came in the last two innings. He struck out six and walked three.
Jury and Zimmermann each had two hits for the Chiefs, who reached the halfway mark on their JCL schedule at 4-6, with half of the losses to Punxsy.
The Chiefs, 8-7-1 overall, will play at DuBois this evening and host Brookville in a makeup game Thursday.
PUNXSUTAWNEY – 10
Chris Reeseman p-cf 3102, Tommy Bush 2b-ss 3222, Dustin Dubensky ss-p 4112, Alex Cressley 3b 4120, Zack Martin c 4122, David Pisano rf 3000, Patrick McKee 1b 2000, Shawn Smith ph-2b 2011, Jacob Stump cf-1b, Nick Pascuzzo lf 0200, Tyler Grayson lf 1000. TOTALS: 28 10 9 8.
CLEARFIELD – 3
James Zimmermann 2b 4021, Jarrin Campman lf 4000, Kyle Kline 3b 3100, Michael Moyer p 0000, David Welker dh 2110, Derek Danver ss-rf 1000, Aaron Sayers rf 1000, Corey Bookhamer 1b 2011, David Ryan cf 2111, Chris Barr rf 1000, Adam Jury ss 2020, Wil Bacharach c 3010. TOTALS: 25 3 8 3.
Score by Innings
Punxsutawney 102 021 4 – 10 9 1
Clearfield 010 011 0 – 3 8 3
Errors – Cressley; Zimmermann, Bookhamer, Ryan. PB – Bacharach 1. DP – Punxsutawney 3 (Stump and McKee; Dubensky, Bush and McKee; Pisano, McKee and Martin). LOB – Punxsutawney 3; Clearfield 5. 2B – Bush, Stump; Jury, Bacharach. Sac – Pascuzzo; Bookhamer. SF – Reeseman, Bush; Ryan. SB – Cressley, Pascuzzo; Welker.
Pitching
Punxsutawney – Reeseman 5 IP, 7 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 1 K; Dubensky 2 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 0 K.
Clearfield – Moyer 7 IP, 9 H, 10 R, 2 ER, 3 BB, 6 K.
WP – Moyer 3.
W – Reeseman. L – Moyer (1-3).
Umpires – Dale Shaw (home), Jay Siegel (bases).