Ellwood City unleashed a 15-hit attack on the way to a 14-3 victory over Mohawk in a key AAA game at Mohawk on Monday. The win raised the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette #2-ranked Wolverines record to 8-1 in the Section One and 14-2 overall.
The Wolverines host the #4-ranked Warriors today at 4:30 p.m. and with the victory can win their first outright section championship since 2002.
Ellwood City opened the scoring with a run in the first inning when Jordan Keller drew a four-pitch walk and moved to second base on a single by Aaron Lake. Keller stole third base and scored on an error on the throw to give Ellwood City a 1-0 lead.
Ellwood City erupted for six runs in the top of the second inning.
Mychal Cuevas walked and Geordyn Bokor followed with a doubled to give Ellwood City a 2-0 lead. Matt Kelly followed with a single scoring Bokor to up the lead to 3-0. With two outs, Lake was walked intentionally and Cameron Mills drew a walk to load the bases. Jake Biskup followed with a double to the left field fence clearing the bases to raise the Ellwood City lead to 6-0. Nate Kennedy rapped a double scoring Biskup to give Ellwood City a 7-0 lead. Mohawk added a run in the bottom of the frame to cut the lead to 7-1.
The Wolverines added a solo run in the third inning on a Kelly single, a walk to Keller and an RBI-single by Lake to up the lead to 8-1. Mohawk answered with two runs in the bottom of the inning to slice their deficit to 8-3. Mohawk threatened in the bottom of the fourth inning with first and third occupied and one out. But Keller caught the runner stealing second base and a ground out ended the inning. After two scoreless innings, Ellwood City pulled away with four runs in the top of the sixth inning. Lake and Mills drew walks and scored pinch-runner Joe Nardone scored on a Cuevas single making it 9-3. Bokor followed with a two-run double to up the lead to 11-3. Kelly followed with a an RBI-double scoring Bokor to give the Wolverines a 12-3 lead. The Wolverines closed the scoring on singles by Lake and Mills and a two-run double to make the final score score 14-3.
Lake led Ellwood City at the plate with three singles, two walks and an RBI. Kelly added a double, two singles with two RBI. Bokor and Kennedy doubled twice apiece with three RBI. Biskup doubled and singled with three RBI and Cuevas singled twice with two RBI. Mills singled and walked twice. Chase Weisz led Mohawk with four singles and Drew Wrona added three singles.
Lake was the winning pitcher with five innings of work scattering nine hits and fanning seven. Kennedy and Biskup threw one scoreless inning apiece in relief.
source: www.ellwoodcitybaseball.com
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