Sunday, May 28, 2023
Gowanda Baseball Continues To Roll
On May 25, the #1 seed Gowanda Varsity baseball team hosted #4 CSP for a Section 6 Class C Semi-Final game. The game got off to a turbulent start. After holding CSP off the scoreboard in the top of the 1st inning, Gowanda ran up a total of seven runs in the bottom of the inning. It was an inning that saw six Gowanda batters walked and two runs walked in. Gowanda’s leadoff batter, Blake Herman, was initially walked and later scored on a passed ball. John Ondus was put on 1st base after being grazed with an inside pitch. Alex Pachucinski had a pair of singles in the inning, the first led to him scoring himself and the second scored Madden Lay and Brayden Smith. Things reversed in the next inning with CSP pulling together four singles and two triples for five unanswered runs of their own. Things settled down past that point past that point and Gowanda’s 7-5 advantage held into the 4th inning. Despite getting several runners on base past that point, CSP only locked down a single 5th inning run the rest of the way. Gowanda added to their lead with a pair of runs in the 4th inning and three more in the 5th for a 12-6 final score.
Leading the way for Gowanda were John Ondus (3 runs, 1 RBI, 1 double), Blake Herman (2 runs, 1 RBI) and Cole Herman (2 runs). Also figuring prominently were Madden Lay (1 run, 3 RBIs), Alex Pachucinski (1 run, 2 RBIs) and Logan Ruff (1 run, 2 RBIs). Additional single runs were scored by Tyler Smith and Brayden Smith). Pitching duties were shared by Alex Pachucinski ( [3 innings] 5 hits, 1 walk, 3 strikeouts) and Carter Capozzi ( [4 innings] 4 hits, 4 strikeouts).
May 25 also found the #3 Gowanda Varsity girls lacrosse team in the Class D Semi-Final game at #2 Eden. The game was the reverse of the last meeting of the two teams where Gowanda played Eden to a halftime tie before falling apart in the 2nd half. In this game, Eden built a 7-0 shutout going to the halftime break with the 2nd half being a 3-3 tie. That still gave Eden a 10-3 win. Ke’ya Stevens scored two of the Gowanda goals. The other was scored by Cadence Luther. Gowanda goalie, Kiernan Quinn made 10 saves on 20 shots faced.