YOUTH BASEBALL: OWEGO MOSES WINS 3 GAMES IN 3 DAYS (2024-07-16)
Tioga County Sports Report
OWEGO — Owego Moses won three games in three days in 10B pool play in the Owego Little League 10U Tournament. The team defeated a trio of Triple Cities-area teams Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
Owego 10, Chenango Valley Whitman 7
Leading, 4-3, Owego created a little space behind a four-run fourth inning.
Maddox Hall belted a two-run home run after Xavier Moses led off with a base on balls. Mike Schmidt followed with a single and Dom Russell-Wilkins delivered an RBI double to make it 7-3. Following a pair of outs, Russell-Wilkins scored on a passed ball.
Nat Robinson singled and stole home in the fifth. In the sixth, Schmidt and Robinson connected for back-to-back singles Schmidt scored on a ground out.
Owego picked up its first two runs in its first at-bats on a double, triple and single by Austin Gregory, Robinson and Mays Miller, respectively.
The next two runs for the team came in the third on a Hank Talbot walk, Moose Monell double and Gregory single.
Gregory finished the game 2-for-2 with a run while Robinson was 2-for-3 with two runs and an RBI; Schmidt went 2-for-3 with two runs; and Russell-Wilkins went 2-for-3 with a run and an RBI.
Monell chipped in with a hit, run, RBI and three stolen bases; Hall recorded a hit, run and two RBI; Mays and Maxx Thole added one hit apiece; Moses and Hank Talbot scored one run each; and Zachariah Wheeler tacked on an RBI.
Robinson, Lewis, Gregory and Moses combined to strike out 11 batters with Robinson getting the win and Moses taking the save.
Owego 11, U-E Genneralli 10
Owego rallied from 4-0 and 8-7 deficits to pull out the victory.
A seven-run second inning gave them the first of two leads. Two-run singles by Moses and Monell, highlighted the burst. Thole, Talbot and Gregory brought home one run apiece to take a 7-4 advantage.
Trailing by a run, Owego grabbed the lead for good in the third on an RBI walk from Wheeler and a three-run double by Russell-Wilkins.
Moses led the team at the plate, going 2-for-2 with two runs and two RBI. Isaiah Lewis contributed two hits and two runs; Monell added two hits, a run and two RBI; and Gregory had two hits and an RBI.
Hall had a hit and a run; Schmidt registered a hit and two runs; Wheeler added two runs and an RBI; Thole chipped in with a hit, run and RBI; Robinson tacked on a hit and drove in a trio of runs; and Talbot had an RBI.
Thole got the win in relief striking out four while scattering four hits and a walk over four innings. Moses earned the save.
Owego 11, M-E Davis 3
Owego scored four runs in each of the first two innings to cruise to victory.
A Moses double, singles by Miller and Russell-Wilkins, and Schmidt’s steal of home made it 4-0 in the first.
In the second, Monell singled home a run and scored on a fielder’s choice off the bat of Lewis. An error and a ground out plated the other two runs.
Gregory would score on an error and Moses reached home on a Schmidt triple in the fourth, and Thole would score following a Wheeler base hit in the fifth.
Moses was 2-for-2 at the dish with two runs and an RBI; Monell had two hits, a run and an RBI; and Robinson had two hits and an RBI.
Lewis recorded a run and an RBI; Gregory had a hit and two runs; Schmidt contributed a hit, run and RBI; Miller had a hit, a run and two RBI; Thole and Talbot chipped in with one hit and one run apiece; Wheeler added a hit and an RBI; and Hall tacked on a run.
Talbot picked up the win scattering five hits over three innings while striking out three. Russell-Wilkins fanned four in two innings of relief, giving up one hit and two walks.
Owego (3-0) finished pool play in second place and faces M-E Davis again Wednesday in bracket play on Hyde Park Field 3 at 5:45 p.m.
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PHOTOS BY TIM TAYLOR.
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