In the mud and humidity, Tyrone Legion and McMuller Furniture battled at the Harry B. Sickler Jr. Sports Complex in Tyrone. It was not a pretty sight.
\nTyrone Legion was short in players again and ended up that way on the scoreboard as well. McMullen\u2019s Brian Plummer limited Tyrone Legion to just two base hits and his teammates took advantage of four Tyrone errors to get out early-defeating Tyrone Legion 12-0 in five innings.
\nMcMullen Furniture opened the game with a a pair of unearned runs in the first, then scored four more in the fourth, all unearned and doubled their total with six in the fifth to end the game by the 10-run mercy rule.
\nThe biggest blow perhaps was a bases-loaded double in the fourth by McMullen second baseman Shawn Price that scored all three base runners when the game was still in doubt. McMullen Furniture had just a 2-0 lead at the time.
\nBarry Gummo pitched the complete game for Tyrone Legion striking out six and walking three.
\nAfter yielding two unearned runs in the first, Gummo retired the side in order in the second and pitched out of trouble in the third by fanning the last two batters, after an error and double by Mike Thrower had put runners at second and third with just one out.
\nIn the fourth inning, McMullen loaded the bases on a walk and two errors, before Price ripped a shot to straight-away center to plate everybody. Price then scored on a single by Thrower.
\nTyrone Legion was able to get just three runners on base against Plummer. Left fielder Andy Garofoli was hit by a pitch with two outs in the first, Barry Gummo singled to right with two outs in the third and Brandon Maceno singled to center with two outs in the fourth. Both Gummo and Maceno moved up a base to second on wild pitchers, but Plummer kept Tyrone Legion from advancing to third base.
\nPlummer gave up no runs on two hits, while striking out six and not walking a batter to record the victory.
\nMcMullen paraded 11 batters to the plate in the fifth inning to score half a dozen runs. Plummer, Mark Sprouse and Mike Weyandt each singled in a run and Zach Haulman, Mike Sprouse and Taylor Miller scored on wild pitches.
\n\u201cWe had a bunch of kids who had to work tonight that I didn\u2019t find out about until the last minute and Ben Gummo was playing basketball,\u201d said Tyrone Legion manager John Harlow. Tyrone Legion didn\u2019t get their ninth player until about 10 minutes before the game. \u201cWe didn\u2019t have our full team. Some of the kids who were there tonight played as hard as they could. Barry Gummo gave up 12 runs, but only three or four were earned. Some of the kids hustled. We have to put this behind us and hope like heck we will have a full ball team tomorrow. The kids who were working tonight, hopefull they won\u2019t be working tomorrow. We play Altoona First and if we play like we did tonight, we\u2019ll see what McMullen\u2019s did earlier in the week when Altoona First beat them 28-0 in five innings. They are that good. When our team plays together they have a lot of potential. The game we played against ReMax at Geesey Park that we tied 4-4 was as good a game as we have ever played. We haven\u2019t been close to that since. So hopefully the kids will come to the game tomorrow with a good frame of mind. We are throwing (Nick) Friling at them, our best pitcher, let\u2019s hope we have some fielding behind him.\u201d
\nMcMullen Furniture 12 Tyrone Legion 0 (5 innings)
\nMCMULLEN FURNITURE – Forr, ss, 4-2-1; Price, 2b, 4-2-3; Eck, cr-2b, 0-1-0; Thrower, rf, 3-0-2; Weyandt, c, 4-1-3; Haulman, 1b, 4-1-1; Plummer, p, 3-0-1; Mi. Sprouse, cf, 2-2-0; Ma. Sprouse, 3b, 2-1-0; Cole, 3b, 0-0-0; Moschella, lf, 2-1-0; Miller, lf, 0-1-0. TOTALS 28-12-11.
\nTYRONE LEGION – Ba. Gummo, p, 2-0-1; Friling, cf, 2-0-0; Garofoli, lf, 2-0-0; Soellner, c, 2-0-0; Maceno, ss, 2-0-1; Cushion, 2b-3b, 2-0-0; Wilson, rf-2b, 2-0-0; Clark, 1b, 2-0-0; Myers, 3b-rf, 2-0-0. TOTALS 17-0-2.
\nMcMullen Furniture 200 46 12-11-0.
\nTyrone Legion 000 00 0-2-4.
\n2B: Price 1, Thrower 1, Weyandt 1, Plummer 1.
\nRBI: Price 3, Thrower 2, Weyandt 2, Plummer 1, Ma. Sprouse 1.
\nSO: Plummer 6, Ba. Gummo 6.
\nBB: Ba. Gummo 3.
\nWP: Plummer LP; Ba. Gummo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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