PERFECT GAME CBL

Cooperstown splits Sunday



The Cooperstown Hawkeyes split a Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League doubleheader with the Watertown Wizards, losing the first game, 4-1, and winning the second, 5-4, Sunday before an announced attendance of 417 at Doubleday Field.

Both games went seven innings.

One-out doubles in the seventh inning by Gaby Ramirez and Delhi graduate Luke Burns produced Cooperstown's run in the first game. Burns recently joined the Hawkeyes.

Losing pitcher Conor Kerins allowed three runs over five innings. Watertown's Erick Gaylord hit a two-run homer in the fifth to give Watertown a 3-0 lead.

The Hawkeyes rallied for four runs in the bottom of the sixth inning in the second game to take a 5-4 lead.

Burns' double to right pulled Cooperstown to 4-3, and he scored on Alex Meadow's single to center to tie it. Meadow took second on an error and scored the go-ahead run on Nate Izzo's single to left.

Cooperstown (14-10), which is off today, plays at Amsterdam at 7:05 p.m. Tuesday.

SATURDAY'S GAME

Cooperstown 6, Elmira 5



Nate Izzo's two-run triple capped a three-run eighth inning that gave host Cooperstown a 6-2 lead, and the Hawkeyes held on for a PGCBL victory Saturday before an announced attendance of 442 at Doubleday Field.

Bryan Aanderud went 4-for-4 for the Hawkeyes, who finished with 10 hits.

Cooperstown 6, Elmira 5

Saturday at Doubleday

Elmira          002 000 003 _ 5 5 3

Cooperstown          001 010 13x _ 6 10 2

Mike Kazley, Jimmy Reed (L, 1-1), John Koch (8) and Patrick Hyde. Chris Kono (W, 2-0), Parker Ray (8), Terrence Moore (9,S,2) and Ben Manlove. 2B _ David Bishop (E), Ty Yesensky (E). 3B _ Nate Izzo (C). Attendance: 442.