PINE GROVE — Pine Grove amassed 13 hits, including home runs by Steve Zimmerman and Zach Boltz, in a 9-3 victory over Tamaqua in a Schuylkill-Berks American Legion League baseball game on Wednesday.
Boltz finished with three hits for the Grovers while Kobe D’Agostino, Logan Levan and Zimmerman each had two.
Winning pitcher D’Agostino allowed two runs, one earned, through six innings.
Pete Baddick, who homered, and Nate MacDonald, who doubled twice, each had two hits for Tamaqua, which leads the league’s North Division.
Tam (6-8) 000 110 1 — 3 5 2
PG (9-5) 320 013 x — 9 13 3
Hartung, MacDonald (2); D’Agostino, L. Levan (7). W — D’Agostino. L — Hartung.
HITS: Tamaqua — Baddick 2, MacDonald 2, O. Bates. Pine Grove — D’Agostino 2, L. Levan 2, Zimmerman 2, Boltz 3, T. Levan, Weinus, Wolfe, Ney.
2B — MacDonald 2, L. Levan. HR — Baddick, Zimmerman, Boltz.
Valley View 19
Pottsville 11
Hunter Bordner and Ben Rautzahn both homered in the West Enders’ Schuylkill-Berks Legion League win over the Lions late Tuesday night.
Valley View scored 10 runs in the fourth inning to erase an early 4-0 deficit.
C.J. Steinhilber had two hits, one a double, and three RBIs for the West Enders. Bordner, Conrad Opozda and Ken Ross each also added three RBIs.
Eric Wapinsky had three hits and two RBIs for Pottsville, while Darion Jacoby had two doubles and two RBIs.
VV (5-5) 000 (10)40 5 — 19 13 0
Pot. (2-8-1) 400 1 3 1 2 — 11 13 3
C. Schaeffer, Belding (3) and Lucas; Kalinich, Kuperavage (3), Wilson (5), Robison (6) and Herndon, Daubert (5).
HITS: Valley View — C. Schaeffer, Ross 3, Marlow 2, Bordner, Steinhilber 2, Rautzahn, C. Opozda 2, Lucas. Pottsville — Wapinsky 3, Daubert, Kuperavage 2, Wilson, Robison 2, Herndon, Everly, Jacoby 2.
2B — Steinhilber, Daubert, Jacoby 2. HR — Bornder, Rautzahn.
Junior Legion
Boyertown 6
Southern Area 6, tie
AUBURN — Jack McKivigan and Nick Yeastadt homered for Southern Area as the A’s played Boyertown to an eight-inning tie.
McKivigan finished 2-for-3 with two runs scored and one RBI. Jakob Biever added two hits for the A’s.
Boy (10-2-1) 110 130 00 — 6 8 1
SA (5-7-1) 003 012 00 — 6 10 1
Kurtz, Henderson (7); J. Biever, D. Biever (6).
HITS: Boyertown — Kurtz, Esz 2, Mason, Randall, Longacre 2, Malony. Southern Area — McKivigan 2, Wesley, J. Biever 2, Schafer, Stump, O’Donnell, Yeastadt, Barr.
2B — Kurtz, Randall, J. Biever. HR — McKivigan, Yeastadt.