Day Four
Lamm Post Wins Sixth Annual Joel Stephens Invitational Tournament Championship With a 7-4 Victory Over Camillus
MANSFIELD – It was the battle of New York in the Six Annual Joel Stephens Invitational Tournament Championship game with Lamm Post defeating Camillus 7-4 Monday afternoon at Shaute Field.
After coming back from four runs down in the semi-finals against Bellefonte, Lamm Post did the same against Camillus who shutout Mansfield 9-0 to reach the finals.
Tom Hausler led the way for Lamm Post going the distance in the complete game victory striking out two batters and surrendering four runs.
Camillus jumped out to an early 2-1 lead after one inning with Chad King driving in Josh Smith with a one out triple. King later scored on a sacrifice fly by Chris Botsford.
Lamm Post responded in their half of the third inning scoring two runs off a couple walks and an RBI single by Joe LaPenna. Lamm would add another two runs in the fourth inning when Todd Negrych hit a two run triple to the gap to give Lamm Post a 5-2 lead.
Camillus would cut the lead to 5-4 when Botsford drove a double to the gap scoring two runners.
Lamm Post would add a couple insurance runs in the top half of the seventh inning to increase the lead to 7-4. Camillus would do no further damage as Hausler finished the complete game victory by having Smith popping out to the third baseman Rob Maxwell to end the game.
Lamm Post 102 200 2 7-9-1
Camillus 200 002 0 4-9-3
Lamm Post: Tom Hausler and Blake Nusbaum
3b-Nusbaum
RBI-Rob Maxwell (2), Joe LaPenna (2) and Nusbaum (2)
Camillus: Tom Perkins, Brandon Otto (4) and Mike Perkins
2b- Chris Botsford
3b- Chad King and Josh Smith
RBI- Botsford (3) and Smith
Josh Palmer Semi-Final (Shaute Fielld)
Brandon Fitzwater’s infield ground ball with the bases loaded scored Donny Warner with the winning run in the bottom of the seventh inning to lead Bradford County to a 7-6 win over Ontario in the Josh Palmer Runner-up Championship Monday morning at Shaute Field.
Bradford County jumped out to a three run lead behind Ramy Ragab’s two-run double. Bradford added another run in the third on an rbi single by Sean Richards.
Ontario scored twice in the fourth inning on rbi singles by Sean Abram and Jordan Sporneak. Ortarion then took a 6-4 with four runs in the top of the sixth, three of them coming off a triple by Matt Richardson.
Bradford rallied to tie the game at 6-6 with two runs in the bottom of the sixth on singles by Preston Hitchcock and Alex Bowers.
Ontario loaded the bases with no outs in the top of the seventh before Curtis Cordeiro entered the game and got the first two batters to pop up before striking out the final batter.
Ontario 000 204 0 6-8-3
Bradford County 301 002 1 7-9-0
Ontario: Greg Connor (l) and Sean Abram
2b – Duane Ryan 3b- Matt Richardson
RBI – Matt Richardson 3, Sean Abram, Jordan Sporneak, Howard Pinsky
Bradford County: Fred McNeal, Brett Krause (4), Curtis Cordero (6) (w) and Jason Fulmer
2b – Ramy Ragab
RBI – Ramy Ragab 2, Jason Fulmer, Sean Richards, Preston Hitchcock, Alex Bowers, Brandon Fitzwater
Multi-hit: Brett Krause 3-3, Matt Willimas 2-4
Josh Palmer Championship Game
Bradford County held on to defeat Bath in the Josh Palmer Championship game 9-8.
Bath jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the second inning with RBI hits by Dan Tunison and Bob Desalvo. However in Bradford’s half of the third they responded with two runs of their own to tie the game at 2-2.
In the bottom of the fourth inning Bradford pulled away scoring four runs to take a 6-2 lead. Brandon Fitzwater led the inning off with a triple and sacrifice fly by Cory Raupers. Alex Bowers capped the inning off with an RBI single scoring Preston Hitchcock who doubled in two runs.
Bradford would add another three runs in the fifth with back-to-back RBI hits by Fitzwater and Raupers to take a 9-3 lead going into the sixth inning.
In the top half of the sixth inning Bath rallied to score five runs and cut the Bradford lead to 9-8. Back-to-back two run doubles by Brandon Wilson and Derek Kiff capped the comeback rally.
Bath threatened to score in the top half of the seventh inning but fell short to Bradford County 9-8.
Bath 020 015 0 8-11-3
Bradford 002 430 x 9-9-2
Bath: Shawn Eaton, Dan Tunison (5) and Derek Kiff
2b-Derek Brown, Brandon Wilson, Derek Kiff
RBI-Wilson (2), Bob Desalvo, and Kiff
Bradford: Fred McNeal, Curtis Cordeiro and Cory Raupers
2b-Matt Williams, Preston Hitchcock, Brandon Fitzwater
3b-Fitzwater
RBI-Bowers (2), Raupers (2), Hitchcock (2), Fitzwater, Ramy Ragab and Williams
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