Tyrone vs. Central

The Tyrone Golden Eagles baseball team suffered two tough losses their opening two games.

The boys started their season off on the road against the 2014 state runner-up and District IX Champions Central Dragons. Central defeated Tyrone 11-4.

Tyrone battled Central the first few innings, holding them to a 3-1 lead going into the bottom of the 3^th inning, but Central pulled away with a big six run bottom of the third.

Central’s Jay Stern had two hits, and Nick Hoenstine, Mike Mock, Mitchell Conrath and Cullen Gahagan each knocked in two runs to lead Central over Tyrone.

BOX SCORE

Tyrone (4): Steinbugl rf 000, Focht dh 200, N. Soellner 2b 300, Lingafelt p-ss 111, Politza 3b 300, Z. Soellner 1b 300, Brenneman c 300, Robinson ss 200, Gunter p 000, Hunter cf 311, Weaver lf 221.

Totals -22-4-3.

CENTRAL (11): N. Hoenstine 2b 200, M. Mock ss 401, Stern 1b 412, Claar p 000, Smith cf 131, McKnight p-rf 201, Bowser cr 030, Vollkommer 3b 210, Langer dh 100, Conrath dh 101, Corle pr 010, Miller c 000, Knepp rf 210, Gahagan lf 211.

Totals – 21-11-7

SCORE BY INNINGS

Tyrone: 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 – 4 3 2

Central: 0 2 6 3 0 0 X -11 7 2

E-Robinson 2; N. Hoenstine, M. Mock. 2B-Weaver; Stern, Smith, Conrath. RBI-Lingafelt; N. Hoenstine 2, M. Mock 2, Langer, Conrath 2, Knepp, Gahagan 2. WP-McKnight. LP-Lingafelt. SO-Lingafelt 2; McKnight 5, Claar 1. BB-Lingafelt 5, Gunter 3; McKnight 3, Claar 1.

Records: Tyrone (0-1); Central (1-1).

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Tyrone vs. Juniata Valley

The Tyrone baseball team fell to Juniata Valley in their home opener 7-5.

Tyrone had a chance to win the game in the bottom of the 7^th inning with the game tied at 5.

With a base runner on third with 2 outs, Sophomore Gary Weaver hit a pop up to shallow right field, but Juniata Valley’s second basemen was in great field position. The game went into extra innings.

The Hornets capitalized in the top of the 8^th, scoring 2 runs to take a 7-5 lead. Tyrone had no answer on offense, and the Hornets sealed the victory.

Tyrone was led by Lingafelt and Maceno who each had two RBIs for the Golden Eagles.

BOX SCORE

JUNIATA VALLEY (7): Collins 2b 523, Hensor ss-p 512, Barton cf 401, Bean p-3b 300, Grissinger lf 100, J. Houck dh 311, Singer c 300, H. Houck rf 320, Leydig 1b-p-1b 400, Derugen 3b-ss 211, Stewart 1b 101, Morrison 1b 000.

Totals – 35-7-9.

TYRONE (5): Z. Soellner 1b 511, N. Soellner 2b 403, Lingafelt ss 411, Steinbugl rf 000, Focht dh 412, Hunter cf 501, Brenneman p 301, Jackson p 200, Maceno 3b 403, Van Allman c 411, Weaver lf 412.

Totals – 39-5-15.

SCORE BY INNINGS

Juniata Valley: 2 0 0 0 1 2 0 2 – 7 9 2

Tyrone: 0 0 4 0 0 1 0 0 – 5 15 2

E-Collins, Morrison, Z. Soellner, Lingafelt. 2B-Collins. RBI-Hensor 2, Barton, J. Houck, Stewart, Morrison, N. Soellner, Lingafelt 2, Maceno 2. WP-Leydig. LP-Jackson. SO-Bean 1, Leydig 2, Brenneman 7. BB-Bean, Brenneman 3, Jackson 1.

Records: Juniata Valley (1-1), Tyrone (0-2).