NEWS

Photo by Dan Hickling

By Cameron Boon

WEBSTER, N.Y. -- For eight innings on Thursday night, Jackson Sigman (Glendale CC) and Dustin King (Hannibal-LaGrange) combined to stymie the Niagara Power offense, holding them to one run and five hits. But, unfortunately for the Ridgemen, a regulation baseball game is nine innings, and it was the ninth one that hurt, as the Power put up five runs on four hits in the final frame on their way to a stunning, come-from-behind 6-5 victory over Rochester in a New York Collegiate Baseball League  Western Division matchup at Basket Road Field.

Zach Verner (John Carroll) came on in the bottom half of the ninth to save the game, his third of the season. It was the fourth straight game that the Power staged a late-inning comeback.

“We have a lot of great chemistry and faith in each other to get the clutch hit,” Niagara catcher Michael Crowley (Huntington) said after the game.

The Power got on the board first in the third, Crowley started the inning with a double to left-center. He then came around and scored on Ivan Acuna’s (Catawba Valley CC) RBI single up the middle.

The Ridgemen weren’t slow to answer though, as they tied it in their half of the third. Andy Santana (Geneva College) and Shane Soria (Glendale CC) started the inning with a walk and single respectively, immediately putting pressure on Niagara’s starter Perry Turner (Jones County Junior College). READ MORE...