Northern Adirondack Conference Baseball: Malone Huskies Vs Norwood-Norfolk Flyers May 21 2012

safe at home
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Kyle Coryea

Malone's Devan Monnette (12) slides in to score the winning run. The Malone Huskies would defeat the Norwood-Norfolk Flyers 9-8 in dramatic fashion in the bottom of the seventh. The Flyers would open up the scoring with one in the first. Although the Huskies would come back with three in the bottom to take the 3-1 lead. The Flyers would tie it back up with one in the second and third. The Huskie bats would come alive in the fourth with four runs to take the 7-3 lead. Then in the sixth, they would get one more for the 8-3 lead. Then in the top of seventh errors would cost the Huskies as they would allow the Flyers to tie it up at eight. Then in the bottom of the inning is where the Huskies would pull it up on a walk-off single scoring Devan Monette. With the win, the Huskies improve to 13-3 on the season. Gallery

pickoff
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Malone's Jordan Yando (14) slaps the tag on the baserunner for the pickoff at first. Gallery

Champlain Valley Baseball League Semi-Finals: Airborne Speedway Padres @ Meron's Expos July 29 2012

running catch
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Kyle Coryea

Airborne Speedway's Corey Trombley (15) with the running catch in center-field to a hit. The Airborne Speedway Padres would finish off the Meron's Expos by beating them 2-0 to advance to the championship next week. The only scoring in the game would come in the fourth inning of a two rbi double by Jeff Norton. The Padres would play stellar defense throughout the day to keep the shutout in tack. In the winning effort, Frank Brogna would strike out six while going the complete game for the win. With the win, Padres will be playinging the Lyon Mountain Miners in the best two out of three series for the championship.

across the diamond
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Kyle Coryea

Meron's shortstop with the running throw as he charges the slow grounder and fires across the diamond for the out.

Champlain Valley Baseball League Quarterfinals: Airborne Speedway Padres Vs Fourth Ward Athletics July 15 2012

head first slide
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Kyle Coryea

Airborne Speedway's Zack Meyers (27) slides in head first at the plate and scores as the Athletics catcher loses the ball. The Airborne Speedway Padres would defeat Fourth Ward Athletics 10-2. The game would start at Saranac High School where they played the top of the first. Then the rains would come and cause an hour-long rain delay. Where the field was determined to be unplayable so the game was moved to South Acres in Plattsburgh. The game would remain close through the opening six with Padres getting singles runs in the 2nd, 4th and 5th and Athletics would get one in the third to make it 3-1. Then in late innings, the Padres bats would come alive getting 7 runs in the last three innings with the big blow coming from Joey Painter's three-run homer. With the win Padres advance to Semi-Finals where they will play either the Expos or Miners.

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Kyle Coryea

Fourth Ward Athletics base runners slide in and beat the tag of Airborne Speedway's Frank Brogna (5).

Champlain Valley Baseball League Lyon Mountain Miners @ Fourth Ward Athletics June 30 2012

grounder
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Fourth Ward's Jake Tolosky (17) picks the grounder and tags first for the out. The Lyon Mountain Miners would defeat the Fourth Ward Athletics 4-2. The Miners would jump out to the early 2-0 lead in the first. That is where the score would remain until the Athletics would tie up at two in the fifth. Then in the sixth Kris Chase would get the game-winning hit. With the Miners finish the season at 10-5 and get a share of the regular season crown while the Athletics finish at 5-10. Gallery

in the hole
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Kyle Coryea

Lyon Mountain's Kyle Erickson (55) drops to position the grounder and fires for the out. Gallery

Champlain Valley Baseball League Airborne Speedway Padres @ Fourth Ward Timberjaxxs June 30 2012

strike
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Kyle Coryea

Airborne Speedway's Matt Rivers (88) gives the pitch everything he has for the strike. The Fourth Ward Timberjaxxs would defeat the Airborne Speedway Padres 14-5. The game would start off well for the Padres as they would take the 1-0 lead after the first. Then in the second, they would get four more on a grand slam from Mark Eggleston to take the 5-0 lead. From there on out the Timberjaxxs would get fourteen unanswered runs. The big dagger in the heart would come in the third when they would score nine runs as the Padres pitches were having problems located the plate. With the win the Timberjaxxs finish the season at 4-11 and as the Padres go to 7-8. Gallery

snare low liner
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Kyle Coryea

Airborne Speedway's Joey Painter (14) ranges far to his right to snare the low liner for the out. Gallery

Champlain Valley Baseball League Airborne Speedway Padres @ Fourth Ward Athletics June 24 2012

leaping snag
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Kyle Coryea

Airborne Speedway's Matt Rivers (88) jumps to snag the high hop and fire over to first for the out. The Airborne Speedway Padres would sweep a doubleheader over the Fourth Ward Athletics by scores of 15-0 and 14-11. In-game one the Athletics would have no answer for Matt Rivers has would go the complete game striking out three and giving up just two hits. The Padres would score early and often as they would get two in the first, one in second to make it 3-0. Then in the third, the Padres would explode for five runs including a three-run homer from Joey Painter to make it 8-0. Then in the fifth, the Padres would finish it off with a seven-spot as the Athletics pitcher was having problems locating the plate for the 15-0 final. Then in game two, they would trade runs in the first to make it 1-1. The Padres would take the 2-1 lead after two. Then in the third A's would come back and tie the game at 3. Then in the fourth, the Padres would take 10-5 lead on the seven-run inning on the strength of Nick Desrochers and Mark Eggleston's back to back home runs. In the fifth, the A's would trim the lead to two runs at 11-9 on the strength of a four-run inning. Then the teams would trade runs over the remaining innings to make the final 14-11 Getting the win in relief was Matt Rivers. As the Padres would improve to 7-7 and the A's fall to 5-9 on the season with one week remaining. Gallery

running stop
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Kyle Coryea

Fourth Ward's Joe Kirkpatrick (14) fields the bunt and fires across for the out. Gallery

Champlain Valley Baseball League Airborne Speedway Padres Vs Plattsburgh Cardinals June 17 2012

across the diamond
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Kyle Coryea

Airborne Speedway's Matt Rivers (88) steps on second throws on to first for the double play. The Plattsburgh Cardinals would sweep the Airborne Speedway Padres 4-1 and 8-6. The first game of the day would be tight through and the Cardinals would just come up better with the timely hitting. In-game 2 the Padres would hold a 6-1 lead heading into the sixth inning and then wheels would just fall off as errors would kill them in the remaining two innings and give up seven runs. With the sweep, the Cardinals go to 9-3, and Padres fall to 5-7 on the season. Gallery

high catch
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Kyle Coryea

Airborne Speedway's Chris Markwackia (24) jumps to snag the high throw on the pickoff attempt. Gallery

Champlain Valley Baseball League Airborne Speedway Padres Vs Meron's Expos June 10 2012

full extension
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Kyle Coryea

Airborne Speedway's Nick Derochsers (7) extends completely out to save the ball from going to the outfield. The Airborne Speedway Padres would sweep a doubleheader with the Meron's Expos 9-0 & 12-0. In-game 1 it would be close at 2-0 until when the bats would explode for 6 runs to make it 8-0. Then to finish off the game the Padres would add one more to make it 9-0 for the victory. The story of the game would be Frank Brogna as he would go the complete game strikeout twelve and give up no hits for the no-hitter. In-game two the Padres bats would stay hot as the would get to expos early by getting six in the second and five in the third and finish it off with one in the fourth for the 12-0 win in five innings. Leading the way offensively for Padres would Eric Bell with a home run and Joey Painter with a three-hit game. On the mound Matt Rivers would give up just three hits and strike out two. With the sweep, the Padres improve to 5-5 while the Expos fall to 7-3. Gallery

diving catch
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Meron's Expos Mark Passino with the rolling catch to save a hit. Gallery

Champlain Valley Athletic Conference Class B Baseball Championship: #1 Saranac Chiefs Vs #2 Beekmentown Eagles

sliding stop
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Kyle Coryea

Saranac's Andrew Petro (12) knocks down the hard smash to first for the out. The Saranac Chiefs would defeat the Beekmantown Eagles 6-5 ton win the 2012 Section VII Class B Championship at Chip Cummings field. The Chiefs would get on the board with a 2 run rbi single by Kasey Favreau for the 2-0 lead. The Eagles would answer back to tie it at the top of the third at 2. Although at the bottom of third the Chiefs would get four runs to get the 6-2 lead. Then in the fourth inning, the Eagles would cut the lead in half at 6-4. Then in the seventh inning, the Eagles would get 1 and leave the baseloads as the Chiefs would get the 6-5 victory. In the winning effort, Tanner Rascoe would go 6 2/3 while striking out and Ben Weightman would come into getting the last two outs for the save for there first sectional title in 4 years. Gallery

safe
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Kyle Coryea

Beekmantown's Brandon Buska (15) slides in safe at the plate ahead of the tag of Saranac's Ben Weightman for the score. Gallery

Champlain Valley Athletic Conference Class C Baseball Championship: #1 Ticonderoga Sentinels Vs #2 Moriah Vikings May 30 2012

sliding catch
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Kyle Coryea

Ticonderoga's Jordan Wood (21) with the sliding knee catch in foul terrority. It would be the Ticonderoga Sentinels vs Moriah Vikings in the title game at Chip Cummings field. The Sentinels wouldn't leave nothing to chance as they would get 11-0 lead. The Sentinels would single runs in the first and second for the 2-0 lead. Then the Sentinels would open it up with three in thrid for a 5-0 lead to break it open. Then would get a pair in the fourth for the 7-0 lead. Then in the sixth they would put the icing on the cake with four runs for the 11-0 win. In the winning effort Ticonderoga's Tanner Wright would go the distance for the victory for the three hit shutout. Gallery

fly ball out
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Moriah's Trevor Cheney (5) settles under the fly ball for the out in left field. Gallery

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