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August 8, 2011

Fourth Ward takes 1-0 lead over Miners in CVBL playoff finals

Anonymous Press-Republican The Press Republican Mon Aug 08, 2011, 03:23 AM EDT

LYON MOUNTAIN — Steve Burris was the difference Sunday.

The Fourth Ward Cardinals' ace shut down the Lyon Mountain Miners from the fourth inning on and led his team to a 6-4 victory in the first game of the best-of-three championship series in the Champlain Valley Baseball League.

The top-seeded Cardinals will go for the sweep this coming Sunday at noon at Lefty Wilson Field. If the second-seeded Miners win the game, there will be a third and deciding contest to follow.

Burris allowed eight hits, walked three and struck out seven in going the nine innings.

The Cardinals jumped out to a 5-0 lead with a run in the top of the first inning and four more in the second.

The Cardinals got their run in the first when Matt Duquette walked, Tory Bouyea singled with one out and Frank Buksa had a RBI single.

In the second, Tom Neale singled and stole second with two outs. C.J. Worley followed with a RBI single, Matt Duquette walked, Brian Latulipe walked and Bouyea rapped a long double to clear the bases.

The Miners then began to chip away.

They scored twice in the bottom of the second to cut their deficit to 5-2. Scott Baker singled, Kris Chase reached on an error, Reilly Lawless got aboard on an error, Jerry Kowalowski hit into a fielder's choice, Jamie Juntunen singled in a run and Cody Weaver singled in another.

In the third, it became a 5-4 game when David Waldron and Kyle Kowalowski both walked and moved up a base on a passed ball. Baker then singled them both in.

But that was it for the Miners the rest of the way as Burris held the potent Lyon Mountain offense to three hits from the fourth inning on. The Miners got two runners aboard in the fifth, but did not score.

Meanwhile, Miners' reliever Justin Besaw kept the Cardinals off the board the final four innings as he struck out one and allowed one hit.

The Cardinals tacked on an unearned insurance run in the seventh on a walk to Bouyea, an infield error and Adam Porter's sacrifice fly to center.

The Fourth Ward finished with 10 hits in all, with Latulipe, Bouyea, Neale and Worley each getting two.

Kyle Kowalowski and Baker led the Miners' eight-hit offensive attack with two apiece.

Of the 10 runners who scored runs in the contest, six of them got aboard on walks.

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Cardinals 6, Miners 4

Cardinals 140 000 100 — 6 10 3

Miners 022 000 000 — 4 8 1

Burris and Bujold. Waldron, Besaw (6) and J. Kowalowski. WP- Burris. LP- Waldron. 2B- Bouyea (C).