Champlain Valley Baseball League Airborne Speedway Padres @ Lyon Mountain Miners May 6 2012

strike
Photo By: 
Kyle Coryea

Lyon Mountain's Chris Van Houten (4) on release with the fastball for one of his ten strikeouts on the day. The Lyon Mountain Miners would sweep the Airborne Speedway Padres 7-5 and 9-2. In-game one of the doubleheaders the Miners would take a 2-0 lead after the second. The Padres would answer back with one in third but the Miners would get three in the bottom to have the 5-1 lead. Then in the fourth, the Miners would get two more for the 7-1 lead. The Padres would try to make the late-game comeback but it just comes up short getting four runs in the last two innings for the 7-5 Miners win. In the winning effort, Justin Besaw would strike out four. In-game the Padres would just have no answers for the Miners as they would get 9 unanswered runs in the first six innings. Then in the seventh Padres would avoid the shutout by getting two runs for the 9-2 final. In the winning effort, Chris Van Houten would strike out 10 in 6 innings of shutout ball.

across the diamond
Photo By: 
Kyle Coryea

Airborne Speedway's Shane Perrotte (2) fires across the diamond from deep in the hole for the out.

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