Hornet baseball falls to Troy, 8-2
By: Ed Weaver | NTL Sports | May 5, 2016
The Wellsboro Varsity Baseball team dropped a NTL Division 1 game to Troy 8-2 on Wednesday, May 4.
Troy jumped out to an early 3-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning and held that until the Hornets managed to score a run in the third. Wellsboro added another run in the fourth to make it 3-2, but Troy added a run in the fifth and 4 in the sixth to put the game away and send Wellsboro home with their second straight loss.
Senior Dawson Prough had 2 hits and scored a run to lead the Hornets and senior Joe Allen and sophomore Brandon Plume added the other Hornet hits. Allen also scored the other run.
Sophomore Johnny Rowland pitched 4 innings and surrendered 3 runs, 5 hits, and 2 walks to go along with 2 strikeouts to earn the loss. Sophomore Dalton Prough pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up a run on 2 hits, and senior James Mundy pitched 1 1/3 innings allowing 4 runs on 3 hits.
The loss drops the Hornets back to .500 at 6-6. The team will be back in action on Saturday afternoon against North Penn-Mansfield.
Ed Weaver is the owner of Circle W Sports in Wellsboro, PA, is the Sports Director for The Home Page Network and the creator of WellsboroAthletics.com and WellsboroFootball.com. You can follow him on Twitter or friend him on Facebook.
