Glens Falls’ Four-Game Win Streak Snapped
As has been the norm all season long thus far for the Golden Eagles, Glens Falls plated four runs in the first, but then didn’t score again until the eighth inning when they tied the game with four more runs; and ultimately lost 9-8 to the Watertown Wizards in 12 innings.
The loss, the first for Glen Falls away from East Field this season, snaps the four-game win streak, drops their overall win-loss record to 6-3 after two weeks of wood-bat summer baseball in the New York Collegiate Baseball League, and puts them just one half games ahead of the Wizards for first place in the East Division.
Walks from freshmen Pepito Moreno (Pima C.C.) and Rodarrick Jones (New Orleans) set the stage for Justin Zumwalde (Pima C.C.), who singled home his college teammate and then stole second to move into scoring position. A pass ball scored Jones and allowed Eric Phillips (Georiga Southern) to reach first base safely on a swinging third strike.
With runners at the corners, freshmen Kevin Berry (New Orleans) hit the ball hard off the shortshop’s glove, which scored Zumwalde, Berry’s college teammate. Conner Gandossy (Saint Louis) then roped an RBI single down the left-field line, scoring Phillips from third and putting the Golden Eagles ahead 4-0.
Moreno finished with three walks and two runs scored. Both Zumwalde and Phillips each added two hits and one run scored. Sophomore Nate Valdez (Central Arizona) also singled in the first before the inning came to a close.
The Golden Eagles have scored 10 first-inning runs this season, and were previously undefeated when leading after one.
Back-to-back singles from Zumwalde and Phillips in the Glens Falls’ fifth had the Eagles needing a clutch, two-out hit to pad their 4-2 lead. But that hit never came, at least not for the Golden Eagles in the fifth inning.
With one run in both the first and third innings, the Wizards’ bats chipped away at the Glens Falls lead. Busting the game wide open with six runs on six hits in the bottom of the fifth inning, the Wizards bats’ calmed down the rest of game until, with two outs in the 12th, a failed pick-off attempt allowed Watertown to score the game-winning run.
The Glens Falls lineup were held hitless in five innings, including all three extras. In two extra inning games this summer, the Golden Eagles’ record stands at 1-1, with an 0-2 win-loss record in one-run games.
Trailing by four runs heading into the top half of the eighth, the Golden Eagles’ clutch, two-out hitting propelled them to score four runs on two hits and allowed them to tie the game at 8-8.
Three walks drawn by Berry, Gandossy, and Moreno loaded the bases for the teams’ hottest hitter, junior Anthony Giansanti (Siena). Giansanti cleared the bases, with a three-run triple, and trimmed the Watertown lead down to only one run.
Jones then singled home Giansanti to knot the game at eight runs a piece. The RBI single was Jones’ second hit of the night and the seventh in his last three games.
In total, Glens Falls worked seven walks off Watertown pitching tonight, compared to the Glens Falls staff that allowed just five walks through 12 innings.
Starting his second game of the season, freshman right-hander Tony Dischler (Louisiana Monroe) lasted four and one-thirds innings and struck out six batters before Daniel Watts (Jacksonville State).
Watts dominated Wizards hitters for six and one-thirds innings pitched, allowing only one earned run on five hits, striking out five and walking one.
Junior Kellen Candau (Southern Illinois) entered the game after two outs in 11th inning. Candau beamed the first batter in the 12th, which turned out to be the difference as the runner eventually came around to score on a failed pick off attempt.
Glens Falls travels to Albany to play the Dutchmen this afternoon hopefully they can get back on track. The Golden Eagles defeated Albany in extra innings back on June 5th. After an off-day on Monday, the Golden Eagles return home for a 10:30 a.m. game against the Dutchmen at East Field on Tuesday, June 16.
