RIDGWAY—-The Ridgway Elkers put 4 runs on the scoreboard in both the fifth and sixth innings Thursday afternoon to stop the Curwensville baseball squad 10-4. The Golden Tide won the first meeting between the two back on April 23 10-9. The win gives Ridgway an 11-8 season record while the Tide finish the regular season at 13-7 heading into next weeks District 9 “A” playoffs.
The Tide did have a 3-2 margin after three innings but a combination of 9 base on balls and four fielding errors helped the Elkers score a total of eight runs in their final two at bats to pull out the victory. Joe Bloom, Cory Bloom and Justin McGary each had two hits of the eight the Tide had on the day. Justin McGary and Cory Bloom each hit doubles for Curwensville. Hudson Rees had two hits for Ridgway with one of two Elker doubles on the day. Joe Renaud had the other two bagger. Curwensville stranded 7 runners while Ridgway left 10 on the bases.
Coach Ryan Briskar said, “ Our defense, for some reason, just wasn’t with us today.” The first year coach has enjoyed a very successful season but now looks to the playoffs, “A new season starts next Tuesday when we host Coudersport in the first round of the district playoffs. We just need to regroup and refocus. I think we will be fine.”
Justin Johnston took the loss in relief while Mike Miriglia went the distance to pick up the win for Ridgway.
As mentioned, the Tide will now host 12th seeded Coudersport on Tuesday at 4:30 pm. Curwensville is the fifth seed with undefeated Clarion getting the one seed. Johnsonburg is number two, DuBois Central Catholic is third and Cameron County is fourth
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CURWENSVILLE – 4 Ben McGary cf 4000, Justin McGary 2b 4121, Brett McCracken 3b-p 4012, Trevor Horton dh 4010, Justin Johnston p 0000, Erik Martell p 0000, Joe Bloom rf 4120, Nate McGary lf 4000, Cory Bloom c 3020, Wes McGarry cr 0100, Jesse Hoover ss 2001, Mark Dell’Antonio 1b 1100.
RIDGWAY – 10 Aaron Stenta 2b 4111, Hudson Rees c 5121, Joe Renaud ss 3110, Mike Miriglia p 3211, Joe Chittester 1b 1112, Ray Buhler cf 3211, Barry Wilson 3b 2100, Sam Skraba rf 3110, Dave Casolo lf 3012.
SCORE BY INNINGS R H E
CURWENSVILLE 120 001 0 4 8 4
RIDGWAY 101 044 x 10 9 2
ERRORS- Cory Bloom, Dell’Antonio, J. Johnston, N McGary; Stenta 2. LOB-Curwensville 7; Ridgway 10. 2B- J. McGary, C. Bloom; Renaud, Rees. SAC-Hoover
PITCHING
CURWENSVILLE Martell 2 1/3 IP, 3H, 2R, 1ER, 4BB, 0K.
J. Johnston 2 2/3 IP, 3H, 4R, 0ER, 3BB, 2K.
B. McCracken 1 IP, 3H, 4R, 4ER, 2BB, 0K.
RIDGWAY Miriglia 7 IP, 8H, 4R, 4ER, 4BB, 5K
WP-Miriglia LP-Johnston