Expos split in title defense debut

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Meron's Expos defensive wizard Cliff Conners retires Fourth Ward Timberjaxx runner T.J. Brunell at second base and fires to first to complete the doubleplay during Sunday's CVBL doubleheader at South Acres Field. The Expos and Timberjaxx split their twinbill. P-R Photo / Gabe Dickens

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May 2, 2011

Anonymous Press-Republican The Press Republican Mon May 02, 2011, 03:23 AM EDT

SARANAC — The Plattsburgh Cardinals, down to their last out, rallied for a 4-3 win in eight innings in the opener Sunday and then Steve Burris tossed a shutout in Game 2 for a 4-0 win and a sweep of the Airborne Speedway Padres in a season-opening Champlain Valley Baseball League doubleheader.

In Game 1, the Padres and starter Frank Brogna took a 3-0 lead into the top of the seventh. The Cardinals, however, rallied for three runs, capped by Tory Bouyea's RBI single, to tie it.

Zeke Perras then singled in the game-winning run in the eighth and reliever Gary Duquette, who took over for starter Dustin Currier, escaped a bases-loaded, nobody out jam when shortstop Bouyea made an outstanding lunging grab on Joey Painter's line drive up the middle and turned it into a game-ending doubleplay.

Bouyea and Casey Buck led the Cardinals with two hits each, while Jeff Norton, Eric Bell and Andrew Bombard had two hits apiece for the Padres.

In Game 2, Burris struck out seven in going the distance for the win to outduel Matt Rivers, who also struck out seven.

Bouyea added three more hits, including a double, while Burris and C.J. Worley chipped in with two hits each.

Norton and Bombard led Airborne Speedway with two hits apiece. Second baseman Alex Cole and right fielder Kevin Russell made some outstanding defensive plays on the day for the Padres.

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Cardinals 4, Padres 0

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Burris and Currier. Rivers and Norton. WP- Burris. LP- Rivers. 2B- Bouyea (C).

T'jaxx 17, Expos 2 (5) Expos 10, T'jaxx 3

PLATTSBURGH — The Fourth Ward Timberjaxx scored 11 runs in the second inning of the first game to win by the run rule and the defending playoff champion Meron's Expos came back to win Game 2 when Andy Gooch hit a pair of 3-run homers.

In the opener, D.J. Barber and Nick Furnia rapped out three hits each for the Timberjaxx, while Jimmy Knight added a double and home run, Justin Mahan a single and home run and Josh Chapman a couple of singles.

Winning pitcher Andrew Price and Cody Wood combined on a one-hitter, with Gooch's one-out single in the fifth accounting for the lone Expos' hit.

In addition to Gooch's big second game, Matt Dahlin chipped in with three hits, including a double. Jessie Collins went the distance to get the win as he scattered six hits.

Barber and Chapman paced the Timberjaxx with two hits each, with Chapman homering.

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Timberjaxx 17, Expos 2 (5)

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Dahlin, Gooch (4) and Poquette. Price, Wood (4) and Mahan, Shutts (4). WP- Price. LP- Dahlin. 2B- Knight (T). HR- Mahan (T), Knight (T).

Expos 10, Timberjaxx 3

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Collins and Poquette. Barber, Wood (4), Price (5) and Shutts. WP- Collins. LP- Barber. 2B- Dahlin (E), Jarvis (E), Wood (T), Price (T). HR- Gooch (E) 2, Chapman (T).

Miners 9, A's 2 Miners 7, A's 1

LYON MOUNTAIN — Kris Chase rapped a single, triple and drove in three runs in Game 1 to help the Lyon Mountain Miners sweep the Fourth Ward A's.

Kyle Kowalowski added a single, double and RBI for the Miners, while Justin Besaw struck out seven in relief to get the victory. Lyon Mountain scored six runs in the top of the second for a 7-0 lead.

Kevin Jessey had four of the A's hits and drove in a run. Jeremy Desroches also had a RBI hit.

In Game 2, Besaw's RBI double in the fifth inning broke a 1-all tie and the Miners opened it up after that.

Scott Baker added a triple and RBI in support of winning pitcher Chris VanHouten. Nick Chase went the final three innings for the save.

Steve Livsey and Pat Ryan paced the A's with two hits apiece.

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Miners 9, A's 2

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Waldron, Besaw (4) and K. Kowalowski. Stanley, D. Elliott (2) and B. Elliott, Terry (2). WP- Besaw. LP- Stanley. 2B- K. Kowalowski (M), K. Chase (M).

Miners 7, A's 1

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VanHouten, N. Chase (5) and K. Kowalowski. J. Desroches, Livsey (7) and Terry. WP- VanHouten. LP- J. Desroches. Sv- N. Chase. 2B- Besaw (M). 3B- Baker.