Rainy days and Mondays always brought down Karen Carpenter, but for the Tyrone baseball team, it\u2019s more like game days and Mondays.
\nAfter yesterday\u2019s loss at home against Claysburg-Kimmel, the Eagles had played on two consecutive Mondays. Both performances were flat at best, and neither were close.
\nThe Bulldogs rode the bat of diminutive center fielder Kyle Nale to a 10-3 victory which, combined with last week\u2019s 15-run-rule loss to Philipsburg-Osceola, left the Eagles 0-2 on Mondays this season, and outscored by a margin of 28-6.
\n\u201cOur record shows we haven\u2019t been good on Mondays,\u201d said Tyrone manager Tom Coleman. \u201cThis is a competitive team and none of the guys like to lose, so hopefully we\u2019ll be able to bounce back from this and play above-.500 baseball this week.\u201d
\nTyrone managed only seven hits and stranded nine base runners while striking out seven times. It was in stark contrast to Claysburg, whose total in extra-base hits alone matched Tyrone\u2019s hitting output overall.
\nNale was at the center of it all, going 5-for-5 with a pair of doubles, a home run and two RBI. Four other Bulldog batters also drove in two runs, including starting pitcher Kalib Fleck, who smacked a pair of doubles.
\nTyler Golden was tagged with his second loss of the season in an uncharacteristic outing that lasted only four innings. He allowed seven earned runs on nine hits while walking three.
\nGolden had gone the distance in both of his previous two starts, and while in those he was often hit hard in spots, he always managed to regroup as the game went on. He had 25 runs of support in those starts, as well.
\n\u201cHe was just a little off today,\u201d Coleman said. \u201cLocation, location, location. He wasn\u2019t hitting his spots early. He gave up a couple for extra bases, walked a couple, and the next thing you know it\u2019s 7-0.\u201d
\nThe loss evened Tyrone\u2019s record at 4-4 with a game tomorrow against Juniata Valley at home before heading to the Altoona Curve Classic tournament Friday with a game against Bishop Guilfoyle.
\nFleck was the winner, throwing five strong innings and allowing just one run, while fanning seven. He stranded two Tyrone base runners on three different occasions, including a first-and-third situation in the fifth after the Eagles had plated one run and were threatening more.
\nBut despite the Eagles offensive struggles, the major problem for Tyrone was dealing with Claysburg\u2019s one through four hitters, who combined to go 10-for-18 with eight runs and five extra-base hits.
\nIt started in the first inning, when Nale doubled in his first at-bat, and later came around to score on a Fleck single. Nale then led off the third with a towering home run to dead center as part of a two-run inning that made it 3-0.
\nNale singled home Shane Burkett in the fourth for a 5-0 lead, and was followed by a Ryan Brown RBI single sandwiched in between run scoring doubles from Fleck and Aaron Doroba.
\nTyrone finally got one back in the bottom of the fifth when Brit Mingle hit into a fielder\u2019s choice to plate Justin Schopp, who had reached on an error.
\nBut Claysburg quickly responded in the fifth, rocking reliever Donnie Hunter for three more runs, two of which came around on a home run by first baseman Ronin Weyant that made it 10-1.
\nThe Eagles threatened with a brief rally in the seventh, scoring a pair on a double to right-center by Jamie Levinson. But with the bases loaded, Hunter grounded to short to end the game.
\n\u201cWe could never get that key hit today, and their pitchers made some good pitches,\u201d said Coleman.
\nGAME NOTES: Tyler Gillmen, who had hit safely in all of Tyrone\u2019s previous seven games, went 0-for-4 \u2026 Golden went 3-for-4 \u2026 Levinson is 3-for-6 with a homer, a double and 5 RBI in his last two games.
\nCLAYSBURG-KIMMEL 10 TYRONE 3
\nCLAYSBURG-KIMMEL \u2013 Nale, cf, 5-3-5; Claar, 2b, 5-1-1; Fleck, p-rf, 5-1-3; Kittle, cr, 0-1-0; Knisley, dh, 3-2-1; Brown, rf, 0-0-0; Aungst, p, 1-0-0; Doroba, c, 4-0-2; Iachini, lf, 3-0-0; Weyant, 1b, 4-1-2; Burkett, 3b, 3-1-0; Claycomb, ss, 2-0-0. TOTALS: 35-10-14.
\nTYRONE \u2013 Schopp, rf, 4-2-1; Golden, p-1b, 4-1-3; Mingle, cf, 3-0-0; Gillmen, 2b, 4-0-0; Levinson, ss, 4-0-2; Brooks, 3b, 1-0-0; Hertzler, 3b, 0-0-0; Stotler, 1b, 1-0-0; Hunter, p, 2-0-0; Anders, c, 2-0-0; Morrow, ph, 1-0-0; Clark, lf, 3-0-1. TOTALS: 29-3-7.
\nCLAYSBURG-KIMMEL 102 403 0 \u2013 10-14-2
\nTYRONE 000 010 2 \u2013 3-7-2
\n2B: Levinson, Nale 2, Fleck 2, Doroba
\nHR: Nale, Weyant
\nRBI: Nale 2, Fleck 2, Knisley 2, Doroba 2, Weyant 2, Levinson 2, Mingle
\nSB: Nale, Schopp, Golden, Brooks
\nE: Burkett, Claar, Golden 2
\nSO: Fleck 7, Golden 2, Hunter 2
\nBB: Golden 3, Fleck 3, Aungst 2, Hunter 1
\nWP: Fleck LP: Golden<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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