PINE GROVE — Troy Moyer’s two-run double in the first inning sparked Blue Mountain as the Eagles remained in the wild-card hunt with a 7-0 win over Pine Grove in a Schuylkill League Division I baseball game at Stump Stadium on Friday night.
Dave Kyslinger added a two-run double in the third before Adam Hull clubbed a two-run homer in the fourth for a seven-run lead for Blue Mountain.
BM (14-4, 8-3) 203 200 0 — 7 9 0
PG (8-7, 3-6) 000 000 0 — 0 5 1
Greenawalt, Oliver (7) and Moyer, Freed (7); Soper, Brown (5) and T. Levan. W — Greenawalt (6-1). L — Soper (0-1).
HITS: Blue Mountain — Hull 2, Greenawalt, Moyer 2, Ege, Barton 2, Kyslinger. Pine Grove — D’Agostino, L. Levan 2, Smith 2.
2B — Moyer, Barton, Kyslinger. HR — Hull.
Marian 11
Mahanoy Area 3
MIDDLEPORT — K.J. Snerr and Daniel Keer each went 3-for-4 with three RBIs apiece as the Colts beat the Golden Bears in a Division III contest at Schuylkill Valley.
Keer hit a two-run single in the first inning and added a solo home run in the sixth, while Snerr’s two-run double in the fourth helped break things open.
MA (1-12, 0-8) 100 020 0 — 3 7 3
Mar (14-1, 11-0) 430 211 x — 11 15 3
Kimmel, Middleton and Fegley; Kubishin and Snerr. W — Kubishin (3-0). L — Kimmel (0-3).
HITS: Mahanoy Area — Bradley, Holman 2, Fegley 2, Miller 2. Marian — Salerno 3, Hinkle 3, Snerr 3, Keer 3, Schmidt 2, DeAngelo.
2B — Holman 2, Snerr. 3B — Salerno. HR — Keer.
Pottsville 9
Jim Thorpe 2
JIM THORPE — Darion Jacoby’s two-run double in the first inning helped set the tone as the Crimson Tide defeated the Olympians in Division I action.
Brandon Daubert added a two-run double in the seventh to help ice the win. J.J. Spehrley struck out six to pick up the victory.
Jake Burkhardt singled and Derek Joyce doubled to set the table for Jim Thorpe’s two runs in the fourth inning. Burkhardt scored on an error and Ryan McCullough’s sac fly plated Joyce.
Po (12-4, 9-1) 300 121 2 — 9 14 1
JT (4-12, 1-9) 000 200 0 — 2 8 1
Spehrley and C. Hinchliffe; Everitt, D. Joyce (7) and A. Joyce. W — Spehrley (4-2). L — Everitt (0-3).
HITS: Pottsville — Blankenhorn, Painter 2, Jacoby 2, Nabholz 2, C. Hinchliffe 2, Daubert 2, G. Hinchliffe, Wapinsky 2. Jim Thorpe — Carroll 2, McElmoyle, Everitt 2, Burkhardt, D. Joyce 2.
2B — Painter, Jacoby, Nabholz, C. Hinchliffe, G. Hinchliffe, Daubert, D. Joyce. 3B — Blankenhorn.
Tri-Valley 11
Weatherly 0
WEATHERLY — Hunter Bordner compiled three hits, recording his 100th career hit along the way, and scored three times as the Dawgs blanked the Wreckers in six innings in a Division II-III crossover.
Tri-Valley scored seven runs in the fifth inning after Weatherly botched a rundown with two outs, leading to five more errors in the inning.
TV (10-7, 7-4) 011 072 — 11 8 0
W (1-10, 1-9) 000 000 — 0 1 7
Bordner, Buchanan (5) and Yoder; Kelly and Bizzare. W — Bordner (6-1). L — Kelly (0-3).
HITS: Tri-Valley — Boltz, Bordner 3, Herb 2, Carado, Buchanan. Weatherly — MacNeal.
2B — Bordner. 3B — Herb.
Tamaqua 2
Kutztown 1
TAMAQUA — Freshman Casey Rother was 3-for-3 with a double and an RBI sacrifice fly as the Blue Raiders edged the Cougars in a non-league game.
Rother doubled in the fourth, leading to Tamaqua’s first run. His sacrifice fly made it 2-0 in the sixth.
Harold Moll and Russell Blaker combined to throw a five-hitter with nine strikeouts.
Tam (11-5) 000 000 1 — 1 5 2
Kutz (6-12) 000 101 x — 2 4 0
Angstadt and Schurr; Moll, Blaker (6) and Rother. W — Moll (2-1). L — Angstadt. Sv — Blaker.
HITS: Kutztown — Schurr, Hartman 2, Mease, Tucker. Tamaqua — MacDonald, Rother 3.
2B — Rother.
North Schuylkill 18
Lehighton 4
LEHIGHTON — Ryan Hillbish picked up his fourth victory of the season as the Spartans remained in the hunt for the wild card with a five-inning rout of the Indians.
North Schuylkill compiled 17 hits on the way to 18 runs in the victory.
Further details were not provided.
NS (11-4, 7-2) 338 40 — 18 17 2
L (3-13, 1-9) 010 30 — 4 5 2
Hillbish, Murray (5) and Burke; Taylor, Buchinsky (3), Heery (3), Bocan (4) and Wagner. W — Hillbish (4-0). L — David (0-4).
Berks Catholic 4
Hamburg 0
HAMBURG — Marcos Vasquez’s RBI single with two outs in the sixth inning broke a scoreless tie as the Saints shut out the Hawks in a Berks II contest.
Janson Youndt had two of Hamburg’s three hits.
BC (14-4, 8-2) 000 001 3 — 4 6 1
H (13-7, 6-4) 000 000 0 — 0 3 1
W — Dekker. L — Smith.
Line Mountain 6
Nativity 5
MANDATA — The Eagles handed the Hilltoppers a non-league loss.
Details of the game were not reported.