Hornets End Two-Game Skid, Top CV 9-3
By: Ed Weaver | NTL Sports | May 9, 2023 | Photo courtesy Lance Larcom/ntwsportsreport.com
The Wellsboro Varsity Baseball team snapped a two-game losing skid with a 9-3 win over Cowanesque Valley on Monday, May 9.
The Hornets started quick, scoring 4 early runs to give themselves the lead. Junior Caden Smith drew a lead off walk, followed by senior Conner Adams getting hit by a pitch. Fellow senior Cameron Brought also drew a walk, loading the bases for senior Blake Hamblin. Hamblin hit into a fielders choice, but still drove in Smith and Adams to put the Hornets up 2-0. Hamblin would later score, along with freshman Marek Mascho, putting the Hornets up 4-0.
Wellsboro added a single run in the bottom of the 2nd to increase their lead to 5-0. Adams led off with a base hit, then would later score, putting Wellsboro up 5-0.
Cowanesque got a run back in the 3rd to cut the lead to 5-1, however the Hornets' offense produced more runs in the middle innings.
In the 4th, Brought smacked his 2nd home run of the season, a 2-run shot scoring both him and Adams, making it 7-1. Later in the 5th, sophomore Gabe Sprouse reached on an error to start the inning, followed by a double from sophomore Lucas Cuneo. Both would score on a base knock by sophomore Alec Magli, giving the Hornets a commanding 9-1 lead.
Cowanesque Valley scored twice in the 7th, but it was too little too late.
The Hornets had 9 hits on the afternoon, led by Cuneo's 3-for-4 performance at the plate with a double and 3 RBIs. Adams finished 2-for-3 and scored 3 runs, Brought and Smith were both 1-for-3 and scored a run, and Sprouse and Magli were both 1-for-4 with Sprouse scoring a run. Hamblin earned the win on the mound, going 5 innings allowing just one run on 2 hits with 2 walks and 3 strikeouts. Brought allowed 2 runs in one and two thirds innings of work while walking 5 and striking out two, and Mascho came on for the final batter.
The win improves the Hornets to 8-7 (7-5 NTL Large School Division). The team is back in action this afternoon at Athens.
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.
