by Warren Kozireski
Junior Luke Tomczyk drove in runs in three separate innings including the second of back-to-back homers with Jim Latona in the seventh inning as Churchville-Chili defeated Spencerport 11-7.
After C-C plated an unearned run in the first, the Rangers took their only lead of the game on a leadoff home run by Trent Egenlauf and an RBI squeeze bunt by Brett Ballard, scoring Jay Perry.
A sacrifice fly in the second inning from Derek Mungillo scored Matt Brown who led off with a single to tie the game 2-2 and the Saints scored two more in the fourth with Tomczyk and Nick Ficarella driving in the runs.
The Saints blew the game open in their half of the fifth inning scoring five runs with starting pitcher Kevin VanDongen plating two, Tomczyk driving in another on an infield single and Ficarella singling for the fifth run after an error allowed the fourth to score.
But Spencerport rebounded by batting around and scoring three runs in the bottom of the fifth. Singles by Brandon Case, Perry and Dylan Toole loaded the bases before Ballard scored two runs with a single. A walk and an error again loaded the bases and Mike Cifarelli drove in Toole with a single to pull the Rangers to within 9-5.
Back-to-back home runs by Latona and Tomczyk in the seventh put the Saints up 11-5 before the Rangers scored two runs in the bottom of the inning on an RBI hit-by-pitch with the bases loaded to Alex Dent and Anthony Macera scoring on a wild pitch.
VanDongen pitched into the seventh inning allowing seven hits and striking out five in earning the win. Zach Jackson came on in the final inning in relief as the Saints picked up their third division win against two losses and fifth victory overall.
