The NECBL Daily Rundown - 6/27/22- Westerners Deal Mountaineers First Home Loss
June 28, 2022 - New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL) News Release
Danbury Westerners 4, Vermont Mountaineers 2
W: Ryan Higgins (Duke): 3 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 3 SO
L: Nick Durgin (Stetson): 3.2 IP, 4 H, 4 R (4 ER), 4 BB, 8 SO
S: Billy Oldham (Eastern Connecticut State): 0.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 0 SO
Montpelier Recreation Field in Montpelier, Vt. - The Westerners (9-9) became just the second team to beat Vermont (17-2) and the first to win at Montpelier Recreation Field this year with a 4-2 victory.
Danbury jumped in front early with a 4-run top of the first inning. Five of the first six batters reached base safely, including RBI singles by Hank Thomas (Ohio State) and Jett Lovett (Georgia Tech), and a two-run single by Jackson Taylor (Indiana State).
Ben Williamson (William & Mary) got the Mountaineers on the board when he singled home Connor Hujsak (VCU) in the fourth. Vermont added an unearned run in the bottom of the ninth when Stephen DiTomaso (George Washington) walked and scored on an error, but Oldham got Williamson to ground out with the tying runs on base to get the Westerners back to .500 for the year.
Danbury starter Sean Hogan (Williams) tossed four innings of one-run baseball. Hogan struck out three and gave up just two hits. Higgins tossed three scoreless innings to earn the victory.
The Westerners host Upper Valley tomorrow at 6:30 PM at Rogers Park, while Vermont enjoys a day off before heading to Holyoke to face the red-hot Blue Sox on Wednesday.
Valley Blue Sox 10, North Adams SteepleCats 5
W: Emmanuel Corporan (Hartford): 7 IP, 9 H, 4 R (4 ER), 1 BB, 2 K
L: Cory Bosecker (Butler): 3 IP, 5 H 5 R (4 ER), 1 BB, 5 K
Joe Wolfe Field in North Adams, Mass. - The Valley Blue Sox (11-7) jumped out to a 9-0 lead after three innings and held off the North Adams Steeplecats (4-14) by a 10-5 score.
Antonio Guerrero (Washington) hit a grand slam and drove in six runs and Jevon Mason (Southeast Missouri St.) went 4-4 with four runs scored as the Blue Sox scored four runs in each of the second and third innings.
The Blue Sox, who have now won seven of their last eight, struck first with an RBI double by Guerrero in the first, and then tacked on four more in the third, highlighted by a two-run triple by Sam Franco (Purdue). Guerrero, who finished the day with three hits, cleared the bases with a homer in the fourth, putting him a double shy of the cycle after his first three at-bats.
Franco was 2-4 with three RBI and a run scored for the Blue Sox. He, Mason and Guerrero combined for 9 of Valley's 14 hits.
William Binder (Albany) hit a two-run homer for North Adams in a three-run seventh for the SteepleCats. Alex Lane (Bryant) and Scott Jones (Butler) each had two of North Adams' ten hits.
Valley returns home to host Martha's Vineyard tomorrow at 6:35. North Adams takes a day off and travels to Bristol on Wednesday for a 6:30 game against the Blues.
New England Collegiate Baseball League Stories from June 28, 2022
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