Contributed Photo –  Bryan Hoeing, a 6-foot-6, 225-pound righty who was a 7th round Marlins draft pick out of Louisville this year threw 2.2 innings for his second hold, striking out one and allowing one run.

BATAVIA – The Batavia Muckdogs had lost four straight and were suddenly down 3-0 on Sunday to Williamsport with their first-place lead in danger.

That’s when Muckdogs Manager Tom Lawless started pulling out the stops as he has all season. The team started bunting, double steals with a steal of home and then a big home run.

The Muckdogs then turned to the bull pen with the lead and held on to win, 5-4 before an Irish Night crowd of 1,021 at Dwyer Stadium, just a day after a near-record crowd of 2,779 filled Dwyer. That’s a three-day total of 4,687 to see the 25-18 Muckdogs.

Down 3-0, in the fourth, Brayan Hernandez singled in Troy Johnston, advancing Andrew Turner to third. On the double steal, Hernandez swiped second then Turner stole home, cutting the lead to 3-2.

In the bottom of the 5th, Dalvy Rosario’s RBI double scored Milton Smith II to tie the game then Nic Ready’s sacrifice fly scored Rosario for the lead.

In the bottom of the sixth, Batavia catcher Michael Hernandez crushed an opposite field home run to give Batavia a 5-3 lead they would not lose. it was the second home run of the season for Hernandez, who came to the Miami Marlins organization out of Nova Southeastern College.

J.D. Orr blasted a triple for Batavia and his average of .374 still leads the entire New York-Penn League.

Left starter Andrew Miller, a 2018 Marlins draft pick out of Kentucky, had the win to even his record at 3-3. He went five innings and struck out five walking just one.

Josh Simpson, another lefty and a 32nd round pick this year out of Columbia University, earned his fifth hold of the season throwing a perfect sixth.

Bryan Hoeing, a 6-foot-6, 225-pound righty who was a 7th round Marlins draft pick out of Louisville this year threw 2.2 innings for his second hold, striking out one and allowing one run.

Evan Brabrand, one of the best closers in the minor leagues, picked up his eighth save of the year, striking out the last batter of the game with runners on base. Brabrand was a 9th round pick of the Marlins this year out of Liberty.

Batavia at 25-18 holds a two-game lead over 22-19 West Virginia in the Pinckney Division and a three-game lead over State College and Mahoning Valley, both 22-21. Only Lowell with 26 wins has more wins in the entire NYPL than the Muckdogs.

Batavia is on the road for three games with the Tri-City ValleyCats (Houston farm club) before retuning home to take on the Detroit Tigers Class A team, the Connecticut Tigers Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 2, 3 and 4.

Rebounding from their first loss of the season, the Albion U15 baseball team defeated Spencerport Gold 13-6 Saturday in Barre to finish the Brockport Pony League regular season at 11-1.

Starting in the bottom of the third inning, Albion quickly went up 9-3 on hits by Zach Colacecchi and Bryce Wilson and a double by Austin Narburgh. Albion then added 4 more in the 5th.

The victory avenged an 8-1 loss to Spencerport Gold on Thursday.

A triple by Colacecchi and a double by Wilson were Albion’s only hits in that contest as Spencerport jumped out to an early lead in the second inning.

Albion will next face Chili Tuesday at Barre Park in a semi final playoff match up at 6 p.m. The winner of this contest up will go on to the championship game tentatively scheduled for Thursday.

PGA Jr. Golf
Ian Wagner, who will be a senior at Medina High this fall, finished in third place at a Western New York PGA Junior Tour event Saturday at Arrowhead Country Club.

Wagner shot a two over par 74 to finish three shots behind tourney winner Anthony Delisanti from Sanborn who had a one under round of 71.

BATAVIA – The Batavia Muckdogs will try again today to end the toughest losing streak of the 2019 season as they host the Williamsport Crosscutters at 5:05 p.m. as part of Irish Night.

On Saturday, a crowd of 2,779 packed Dwyer Stadium, but the Muckdogs fell to Williamsport, 7-0.

Batavia (24-18) remains not only in first place in the New York-Penn Pinckney Division, but in the hunt for the best overall NYPL record, trailing Lowell (Red Sox) 26-14) and the Mets farm club, Brooklyn Cyclones (24-16).

The Muckdogs, the affiliate of the Miami Marlins, still have a two-game lead over the West Virginia Black Bears, who have lost two in a row and are 21-19. Mahoning Valley (22-20) have won two in a row and State College (22-20) have won three in a row. The Muckdogs have lost four.

The Williamsport team was having the fun on the field as Kendall Simmons hit a home run and Juan Aparicio went 3-for-4 with a double and a triple.

Batavia was led by the hot-hitting J.D. Orr who went 2-for-4. The 10th round pick this year of the Marlins is now hitting a lead-leading .375 on the season.

Andrew Turner, Troy Johnston and Dalvy Rosario all had hits for Batavia.

Muck dogs pitching has now put up some awning two-game stars. A total of seven pitchers have thrown 18 innings with 21 strikeouts and zero walks.

Saturday, Easton Lucas (four K’s in three innings), Dakota Bennett (two strikeouts in 5.0 innings) and Joey Steele (a scoreless ninth and he struck out the side) combined for nine strikeouts and no walks.

Muckdogs catcher Dustin Skelton, an 18th round Marlins draft pick this year, threw out three runners trying to steal.

Contributed Photo – Emma Lindke

Athletics and academics have been a very busy but very successful combination at Niagara University for Roy-Hart graduate Emma Lindke.

Athletically, she has been a three year player on Niagara’s soccer team which competes in the NCAA Division 1 Mid Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) playing in 17 games last fall.

Academically, she has graduated in three years Magna Cum Lauda with a BS degree in Finance.

Enrolled in the honors program, she was on the academic honor roll every semester and was inducted into both the Delta Epsilon and Beta Gamma Honor Societies. She was also President of the NU Finance Club.

She is also getting a head start on her career plans by interring this summer at PriceWaterhouseCoopers in New York City after interning last summer at Wells Fargo.

This fall Lindke will be returning to Niagara to play her final season of soccer and attend graduate school for Information Security and Digital Forensics.

During her scholastic days at Roy-Hart Lindke earned first team Niagara-Orleans All-League honors her senior year scoring a league leading 30 goals.

BATAVIA – The Batavia Muckdogs dropped a tough home game to Williamsport, 5-3 Friday night.

However, with a loss by West Virginia, Batavia keeps a two game lead in the New York Penn-League Pinckney Division.

On Friday, Batavia had the pitching, hitting and defense, but did not get the timely hits to win. The Muckdogs out-hit Williamsport and the three Batavia pitchers racked up 12 strikeouts and zero walks.

Milton Smith II is now hitting .358 on the season as he went 2-for-4 and Dalvy Rosario had two hits for Batavia (24-17).

Catcher Andres Storms belted a 2-RBI triple that brought Batavia within one, 4-3 in the sixth but the Muckdogs could not bring in another run. Troy Johnston, Nic Ready and J.D. Orr all singled for Batavia.

On the mound, Edgar Martinez struck out seven in 5.2 innings of work and did not walk a batter. he gave up three earned runs and took the loss, given up just four hits.

Edison Suriel threw 1.1 scoreless innings with three strikeouts and Jonaiker Villalobos threw two innings and struck out two without a walk and gave up one hit.

Tonight, the Muckdogs  again host Williamsport.

Ian Wager, who will be a senior at Medina High this fall, shared top honors in the 16-18 age division at the Western New York PGA Junior Tour tourney held today at the Niagara County Golf Course.

Wagner shot an even par 72 on 9 hole rounds of 38 and 34 to finish in a three-way tie for first place with RJ Cancilla from Rochester and Anthony Tuger from Hamburg.

Scoring twice in each half, Medina-Lyndonville United U15 blanked Akron 4-0 Thursday evening in a Buffalo and Western New York Junior Soccer League game at Gasport.

Zaric Boyce led the M-L United attack with 3 goals, as Logan Gray earned 2 assists and Jack Whipple 1 on those tallies.

Cole Callard netted the final goal off an assist from Will Roush.

Jackson Moreland earned the shutout in goal as the quintet of Whipple, Mason Moreland, Kevin Travis, Brydon Costich and Aidan Owczarczak anchored the defense.

Improving to 5-3, M-L United next hosts West Seneca at 6:45 p.m. next Thursday at Gasport.