Purple Eagles oust top seed in A2 tourney

File Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Gavin Boyce

No. 8 seed Albion upended No. 1 seed City Honors 8-2 in the quarterfinal round of the Section VI Class A2 baseball tournament this afternoon in Buffalo.

The victory advances Albion to a semifinal contest at 5 p.m. Tuesday at No. 4 Lew-Port which ousted No. 5 East Aurora 3-2.

Leading by a narrow 3-2 margin, Albion put a lock on the victory by erupting for 5 runs in the top of the seventh inning on an RBI single by Nate Gibson, run producing sacrifice flies by Nick Luft and winning pitcher Gavin Boyce, an error and a fielders choice play. A triple by Elliot Trapiss ignited the decisive uprising.

Earlier, the Purple Eagles scored one in the first on an RBI single by Mason Snook, once in the third on a sacrifice bunt by Snook and once in the fourth on an RBI single by Boyce.

Boyce, Gibson, Will Plummer and Drew Pritchard each finished with a a pair of hits.

On the mound, Boyce scattered 3 hits and struck out 10 in six and one-third innings of work. Pritchard came on to get the final two outs on strikeouts.

Class C
No. 7 Portville edged No. 7 Barker 5-4 and No. 5 Brocton/Cassadaga Valley downed No. 12 Wilson 12-1 in Section VI Class C contests.

Brocton/Cassadaga Valley erupted for 9 runs in the second inning to key the win over Wilson.

A 4 run second inning on 3 walks, a single and a two-run doubled keyed the win for Postville.

Barker rallied for 3 runs in the seventh inning on RBI singles by Keagan Schaal and JJ Prynn and a run producing sacrifice fly by Drew LaGreca but saw the comeback bid fall just short.