(Rochester, NY) The Penfield Patriot JV baseball team took to the road for its first away contest of the 2008 campaign, winning big at Aquinas Institute in Rochester by a score of 19-4 on a chilly Monday morning of spring break. The Patriots capitalized on a well distributed fourteen hit attack combined with erratic Aquinas pitching – three Li’l Irish pitchers combined for a jaw dropping fifteen walks – to put away the game early and allow for liberal substitutions from head coach Nick Marcin.
Penfield starting pitcher Brian Chernak worked through some control problems of his own in the first inning – surrendering four free passes and a double that knotted the score at two apiece – but settled down long enough to complete three innings, ringing up six strikeouts in his outing. Greg Travers came on in the fourth inning to earn the win with three solid scoreless innings of two-hit relief and helped at the plate with a sacrifice fly to deep left field. Trevor Quiel worked the seventh inning allowing two runs with only one earned.
Contributing to the Patriot offensive onslaught were Kevin Harman, scoring five times on a two-hit, two-RBI game including a double down the right field line; Mark Huddle driving in three runs on a 2-RBI single and a bases-loaded walk; and Chernak, Mick Ercole, and Robbie Mabee scoring three runs each. Chernak also added an RBI double in his last at bat. Paul Watrobski chipped in with two RBIs, reaching base in all five plate appearances; John Ives with a 2-for-2 day with an RBI; and Jake Shattuck with two RBIs.
Coach Marcin commented that “we started that game a little sloppy and we ended it a little sloppy, but I thought that the five innings in between were excellent.” Aquinas was not playing with its full regular team, Marcin conceded. “They had six players away [on vacation], so we certainly didn’t see their full team.” He was happy with another total team effort, though. “Everybody got in, everybody produced – anytime you score nineteen runs, you’re doing something right.”
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