Cory Craig and Youngsville Post 658 handed defending league champion Corry Northwest Savings Bank its first loss of the season, 3-1, on Friday at Davis Street Field in Youngsville.
Youngsville, Corry and Post 135 each have one loss on the early season.
Craig threw a complete game, striking out 14 in seven innings for the three-hit win. Caleb Linkerhof and Sawyer Dininny had base hits in the first and Craig banged a base hit to left that got by the leftfielder and scored two. Craig scored the third run in the first on an infield hit by Brodie Turner.
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Knuckle up
Blair pitcher Tanner Teconchuk fires a knuckleball to a Tidioute batter during a Senior American Legion Baseball League game between the teams Friday at Old Legion Field in North Warren.
Linkerhof and Dininny had two hits each for Post 658 in the win.
Joe Sonntag had an RBI double for Corry's lone run in the seventh.
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Youngsville 300 000 0 - 3 7 0
2b-Joe Sonntag (C). WP-Cory Craig. LP-Sontag.
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Blair 15, Tidioute 0
Eddie Dorunda hit for the cycle as Blair grabbed its first win of the year, 15-0, over winless Tidioute on Friday.
Dorunda was 4-for-5, and Tanner Teconchuk, Johnny White and Carter Cerra had three hits each in the 14-hit attack.
Teconchuk spun a two-hit complete-game shutout for Blair, which hosts Youngsville Post 658 on Monday.
On Thursday evening, Corry Savings Bank handed Blair an 8-5 setback at The Ballpark at Columbus. Eddie Dorunda was 1-for-4 with a triple and Carter Cerra 1-for-4 with a double in the loss for Blair.
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Blair 702 024 x - 15 14
2b-Johnny White (B), Eddie Dorunda (B), Carter Cerra (B). 3b-Dorunda (B). HR-Dorunda (B). WP-Tanner Teconchuk. LP-Shawn Baggeley.
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Corry 003 301 1 - 8 8
2b-Carter Cerra (B), Patton (C). 3b-Eddie Dorunda (B).