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Sophomore Johnny Kehl threw a complete-game three-hitter as Wyoming Seminary knocked off Nanticoke 3-1 on Wednesday in a WVC baseball Division 3 game.
The Blue Knights (1-1 WVC) got all three runs in the first inning with Michael Oravic and Doug Thomas both driving one in.
Despite the loss, Nanticoke (0-1) held Seminary to just two hits. Joe Olszyk excelled in four innings of relief, not allowing a hit while striking out four.
Postponements
Tuesday’s snowstorm led to most of Wednesday’s baseball schedule being called off.
Berwick at Tunkhannock will be played Thursday while Holy Redeemer at Meyers was moved to April 10.
No make-up dates have been set for GAR at Northwest or Hanover Area at MMI Prep yet.
H.S. SOFTBALL
Weather wipes out schedule
All six WVC softball games scheduled for Wednesday were postponed.
Three games were rescheduled for Monday: Meyers at Holy Redeemer; Wyoming Area at Tunkhannock; and Wyoming Valley West at Hazleton Area. Coughlin at Pittston Area will be played April 13.
Rescheduled for April 15 were Crestwood at Berwick and Nanticoke at Lake-Lehman.
BOYS TENNIS
Crestwood 4, Pittston Area 1
Crestwood opened its season with the victory thanks to singles wins from Robbie Shovlin and Ryan Rogan.
The Patriots’ Christian Charney won at No. 1 singles.
Tunkhannock 5, Coughlin 0
The Tigers picked up the sweep thanks to straight-set singles wins by Packie Cronin, Luke Straley and Avery Newhart.
Wyoming Seminary 3, Berwick 2
Eamon Gibbons and Andrew Schukraft won singles matches for the Blue Knights, while Berwick’s Dominic Scicchitano won at No. 3 singles.
BOYS LACROSSE
Crestwood 20, Central Dauphin 0
In a game played Monday, the Comets were led by Andrew Bobynskyj and Jay Popson who each tallied five goals and four assists.
Ryan Magin (3 goals, 2 assists), Joe Grandinetti (2 goals, assist), Lance Lysiak (2 goals, assist), Jimmy Martino (2 goals) and Robert Coslett (1 goal) also a hand in the victory.
COLLEGES
MEN’S LACROSSE
Eastern 14, King’s 5
Brock Johnson led King’s with two goals while Ryan Dambach and Kyle Wilk had a goal and an assist each. Cam Trick scored the fifth Monarch goal. William Pokorny got the loss in goal making 16 saves.
Misericordia 10, Farmingdale State 5
Chris Fleming scored three goals, including two in the fourth quarter for the Cougars, while Pat Kellish and Andrew Reynolds scored twice and Brandon Winslow, Jake Kocovsky and Trevor Bodnar added one goal each.
BASEBALL
Misericordia 10, Moravian 1
Ryan Dorosh tossed seven strong innings, allowing just one run on three hits while striking out five and walking none to improve to 2-0 this season.
D.J. Navoczynski and Nick Hair led the Cougars’ offense with two hits and two RBI each, while Kyle Lindsay, Mike Comerford, Steve Cuccio, Brian Eshleman and Jeremy DeCotiis drove in one run each.
H.S. BASEBALL
Wyoming Seminary 3, Nanticoke 1
Nanticoke`AB`R`H`BI
Rosick ss`4`0`1`0
Pokrinchak cf`4`0`1`0
Olszyk lf-p`2`0`0`0
Norton 3b`2`1`1`0
Romanowski c`3`0`0`0
Benscoter p`3`0`0`0
Kreitzer rf`3`0`0`0
Kotch lf`3`0`1`0
NBukofski 2b`0`0`0`0
Labenski dh`2`0`0`0
Totals`26`1`3`0
Seminary`AB`R`H`BI
Sabourin cf`2`1`0`0
Kehl p`3`0`0`0
Phillips 2b`2`1`0`0
Oravic ss`3`1`1`1
Thomas c`2`0`0`1
Jerome 3b`2`0`0`0
Negron 1b`2`0`0`0
Sweitzer rf`2`0`0`0
SOlsen lf`2`0`1`0
Totals`20`3`2`2
Nanticoke`000`100`0`—`1
Seminary`300`000`x`—`3
2B — Norton
Nanticoke`IP`H`R`ER`BB`K
Bensctr (L, 0-1)`2.0`2`3`1`2`1
Olszyk`4.0`0`0`0`0`4
Seminary`IP`H`R`ER`BB`K
Kehl (W, 1-0)`7.0`3`1`0`3`4
BOYS TENNIS
Crestwood 4, Pittston Area 1
SINGLES: 1. Christian Charney (PA) d. Keelan Tollinger 6-3, 6-4; 2. Robbie Shovlin (Cre) d. Jason Hamschek 7-5, 6-3; 3. Ryan Rogan (Cre) d. Jonathon Durling 6-4, 6-4
DOUBLES: 1. Jason Dotzel/Nick Gavio (Cre) d. James Galonis/Nick Alfano 6-7 (5-7), 6-2, 6-1; 2. Gabe Hagen/Matt Wimpfheimer (Cre) d. Sam Mayhoff/Delmar Guizewicz 6-1, 6-1
Tunkhannock 5, Coughlin 0
SINGLES: 1. Packie Cronin (Tun) d. Michael Klimek 6-1, 6-1; 2. Luke Straley (Tun) d. Pavel Svintozelsky 6-4, 6-4; 3. Avery Newhart (Tun) d. Sam Sebia 6-3, 6-0
DOUBLES: 1. Colin Franko/Gerard Mirabelli (Tun) d. Stephan Moon/Jacob Kuna 6-2, 3-6, 6-2; 2. Justin Phillips/Alex Greenip (Tun) d. Frank Costellano/Matt Frankelli 4-6, 6-1, 6-2
Wyoming Seminary 3, Berwick 2
SINGLES: 1. Eamon Gibbons (WS) d. Luke Whitenight 2-6, 6-3, 6-2; 2. Andrew Schukraft (WS) d. Blake Whitmire 6-1, 6-1; 3. Dominic Scicchitano (Ber) d. Adrian Sung 6-3, 3-6, 6-0
DOUBLES: 1. Giuseppe Baratta/Nick Oliver (Ber) d. Michael Kim/Sam Deski 4-6, 6-3, 6-2; 2. Andrew Kim/Richand Hughes (WS) d. Roopesh Kumar/Jake Demler 6-4, 6-2