Despite averaging 8.9 runs over their first 11 games, the Tyrone Golden Eagles were yet to score a seventh-inning run entering yesterday\u2019s game in Spring Mills against Penns Valley.
\nIt\u2019s a figure due in large part to the Eagles\u2019 success this season when they\u2019ve been on top. Tyrone had led going into the seventh in every win, and their smallest margin heading into the final frame was two runs.
\nSo with a 5-2 lead as they approached their final at-bat, it didn\u2019t look like the Eagles would need to add on, especially with senior pitcher Clint Wilson on top of his game and ready to go the distance. But that didn\u2019t stop Tyrone from scoring four important insurance runs in the top of the seventh – runs that would ultimately be the difference in what ended up a 9-5 Eagle victory.
\nIt was Tyrone\u2019s second consecutive win after back-to-back losses to end last week, and it improved the Eagles to 8-4 overall and 5-2 in Division III of the MAC. Wilson logged his third win of the season, improving to 3-2, while recording the staff\u2019s first complete game since March 31 when he went five innings in a mercy-rule suspended game against Southern Huntingdon.
\nAfter blasting 11 extra-base hits a day earlier in the rarified air of Glendale, the Eagles managed just one yesterday, but they were able to manufacture runs late to give Wilson a cushion to work with in the seventh.
\n\u201cWe jumped out early and rode that lead until they scored, and then we were able to get some important insurance runs.\u201d Said Tyrone manager Tom Coleman. \u201cI think that helped Clint to relax out there, knowing that it wasn\u2019t all on his shoulders.\u201d
\nThat\u2019s not to say the towering lefty couldn\u2019t have handled it. Wilson had command of his fastball and curve ball throughout, and the Rams never quite got a feel for him until their fourth time through the order. He finished with eight strikeouts and three walks.
\nBut clutch hits from Buddy Stotler and Derrick Soellner allowed Wilson to breath easier when the Rams made a push in the bottom of the seventh. Both delivered two RBI singles in Tyrone\u2019s last at-bat as the Eagles extended their lead to 9-2.
\nPenns Valley (4-7) scored three times in the bottom of the inning \u2013 including a run by Jason Homan that saw him dive beneath the tag of Tyler Golden in a run-down on the third base line \u2013 and threatened to get more after an RBI single with one out put Josh Hull on board for the fourth time in the game. But Hull broke on a hit-and-run and was doubled off first base by Brinton Mingle after Eric Musser flew out to shallow right.
\n\u201cOur defense played very well,\u201d Coleman said. \u201cOur defense always seems to rise to the occasion around Clint because they know he\u2019s going to throw strikes and allow the other team to put the ball in play.\u201d
\nTyrone jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first inning on an RBI double by Soellner and a single by Tyler Gillmen that knocked Ram starter Nate Frankenberger out of the game. Gillmen lined a hot shot back up the middle, clipping Frankenberger\u2019s throwing hand and forcing him out after 1\/3 of an inning.
\nThe Eagles manufactured two runs in the fourth using two walks, a fielder\u2019s choice, a sacrifice and a balk to score Stotler and Josh Clark.
\nValley cut it to 5-2 in the bottom of the sixth on back-to-back singles by Josh Kieffer and Devin Altiero plated Musser and Hull.
\n Diamond Notes: Soellner finished 2-for-4 with 3 RBI \u2026 Mingle scored two runs and along with his play to end the game also came up with a diving catch of an Andy Foor fly ball in the fifth inning \u2026 Hull went 3-for-3 with a double \u2026 of the 27 runs Tyrone has scored in its last two games, 11 have been driven home by Soellner and Stotler \u2026 the Eagles host Moshannon Valley on Friday in their first home game since April 4 \u2026 Penns Valley travels to Philipsburg-Osceola.
\nTyrone 9 Penns Valley 5
\nTYRONE \u2013 Mertiff, ss, 4-1-1; Mingle, rf, 4-2-1; Wilson, p, 4-0-1; Myers, cr-lf, 0-1-0; Soellner, c, 4-0-2; Morrissey, cr, 0-2-0; Gillmen, 3b, 3-1-1; Gummo, 2b, 3-0-0; Graham, ph, 1-0-0; Golden, 1b, 0-0-0; Stotler, dh, 3-1-1; Levinson, lf, 2-0-0; Clark, cf, 3-1-1. TOTALS: 31-9-8.
\nPENNS VALLEY \u2013 S. Altiero, lf, 3-1-1; Homan, 2b, 4-1-1; Hull, cf, 3-1-3; Frankenberger, p, 0-0-0; Wenrick, p, 2-0-0; Musser, p, 2-1-1; Jo. Kieffer, c, 3-0-1; D. Altiero, 3b, 3-0-1; Rachau, 1b, 0-0-0; Ja. Kieffer, dh, 3-0-1; Brubaker, rf, 2-1-0; Foor, ss, 2-0-0; Levan, ss, 0-0-0; Miller, ph, 1-0-0. TOTALS: 28-5-9.
\nTYRONE 300 200 4 \u2013 9-9-0.
\nPENNS VALLEY 000 002 3 \u2013 5-9-1.
\n2B: Soellner, Hull.
\nRBI: Soellner 3, Stotler 2, Mertiff, Gillmen, Homan, Hull, D. Altiero, Jo. Kieffer.
\nSB: Mertiff 2, Mingle, Hull 2.
\nK: Wilson 8, Musser 3, Wenrick 2.
\nBB: Wilson 3, Wenrick 2, Musser 2.
\nWP: Wilson LP: Wenrick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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