PLATTSBURGH — The Lyon Mountain Miners tasted defeat for the first time this season in the first game of a Champlain Valley Baseball League showdown against the Meron's Expos at South Acres Field Sunday.
David Waldron, however, made sure the Miners got a split on the day.
Waldron clubbed four home runs, which is believed to be a CVBL single game record, and drove in 11 runs in Game 2 as the first-place Miners (7-1) recorded a 15-4 win following an 10-7 loss in Game 1.
Waldron had a trio of three-run homers and one two-run shot.
Kyle Kowalowski added two doubles and a home run of his own in the second game and winning pitcher Justin Besaw, who went the distance, added two hits.
Lyon Mountain held a 5-4 lead before scoring three runs in the fifth, three in the sixth and four in the seventh.
Pat Shaughnessy paced the Expos (5-3) with three hits, while Nick Lamica and Andy Gooch each added two. Shaughnessy and Lamica each hit a two-run homer.
In the first game, the Expos trailed 5-0 before breaking loose for seven runs in the bottom of the second to take the lead for good. Justin Mahan's three-run homer got Meron's started in the second frame.
Shaughnessy went three-for-three, while Gooch was two-for-two, with two doubles, and both Casey Brighton and Cliff Conners two hits each.
Billy Davis went the route to pick up the pitching win.
Jerry Kowalowski was the only Lyon Mountain player with two or more hits in the game as he finished with two singles and a homer.
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Padres 3, T'jaxx 1 Padres 11, T'jaxx 3
SARANAC — Jordan Keysor won a pitching duel with Matt Lamora in the first game and the Airborne Speedway/Hockey Plus Padres (4-4) went on to sweep the Fourth Ward Timberjaxx (1-7).
Keysor struck out 12 and allowed only one hit — a RBI double in the fifth inning to James McIntosh. Lamora, meanwhile, fanned four and surrendered five hits.
All four runs scored in the game were unearned. The Timberjaxx opened the scoring in the top of the fifth and the Padres came back with three in the bottom half.
Shane Perrotte accounted for three of the Padres' five hits — two singles and a double. Donny Coolidge also had a double.
In Game 2, Airborne/Hockey Plus erased a 3-2 deficit with five runs in the bottom of the fourth and didn't look back.
Coolidge led the way with two singles and a double, while Mark Eggleston rapped a single and double, and Eric Bell, a two-run double. Matt Rivers went the distance in picking up the pitching win.
Nick LaBonte, McIntosh and Jacques DeMars all had two hits each for the Timberjaxx, with LaBonte, David Shutts, McIntosh and Lamora getting doubles.
The Padres' Jeff Norton may have approached a CVBL record by getting hit by a pitch four times in the twinbill.
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Cardinals 5, A's 0 Cardinals 8, A's 2
PLATTSBURGH — Steve Burris tossed a five-hit shutout, with nine strikeouts, in the first game and Craig Bujold a two-hitter, with 11 strikeouts, in Game 2 as the Plattsburgh Cardinals (6-2) took two from the Fourth Ward A's (1-7).
Bujold carried a no-hitter until Brandon Hatch singled with two out in the sixth inning.
Tom Jebb led the Cardinals with two hits and two RBI in the opener and Burris added a double.
Losing pitcher Reilly Lawless held the Cardinals to two runs over the first five innings. Michael Howard accounted for two of the A's five hits.
Bujold and Nick Walker rapped out two hits each for Plattsburgh in the second game and Russell Holland added a two-run homer.
The Cardinals jumped in front to stay with three runs in the bottom of the first inning.
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