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Nick Kocher, Henry Selingo, and Christo Huntington combined to hold West Pittston to one run, leading Back Mountain National to a 6-1 victory over West Pittston in the 9-10 Tommy’s Pizza Corner Tournament on Thursday.
Justin Marshall, Ben O’Connell and Huntington had two hits each for Back Mountain while Adam Borton, Drew Patton and Selingo each had one.
West Pittston got a hit from PJ Angeli and Sam Greenfield.
The teams play again today at 7 p.m. for the championship game.
JANNUZZI TOURNAMENT 11-12 yo. BASEBALL
Hanover 4, Mountain Top 2
Winning pitcher Scott Golshefski struck out six and backed up his pitching with a double and a solo homerun as Hanover advanced to today’s Jannuzzi Tournament final with a win over Mountain Top. Hanover will take on Northwest at 6 p.m. for the championship.
Justin Kwiatkowski also hit a solo drive for the victors, while John Paul Yost smacked two doubles and John Fulginiti collected two hits.
Conlan Mandrew ripped a solo home run for Mountain Top, while Seamus Rother added two hits.
NORTHWEST TOURNAMENT 9-10 BASEBALL
Back Mountain American 10, Hanover 0 (4 inn.)
Matt Mather had three hits and Carl Markowski tripled to lead Back Mountain American to victory over Hanover. The game came to a close on a three-run home run by Josh Holdrege in the bottom of the fourth inning. Winning pitcher J.D. Barrett struck out eight.
Mike Piscotty had a pair of singles to lead Hanover.