SUNY Broome swept Corning Community College for the second straight day Sunday. The Hornets (7-7, 5-1) won the first game of the double header 15-4 in five innings, and the second 6-4. The pair of wins makes it four in a row, and five of the past six for the Hornets.
Joe Klenchik (Binghamton, NY/Binghamton) started things off for the Hornets with a single in the second inning and advanced to third on aTroy Scales (Johnson City, NY/Johnson City) single. Adam Kettle (Johnson City, NY/Johnson City) walked to load the bases, and Thaylor Aguilera (Caracas, Venezuela/UEN Mariano Picon Salas) drove Klenchik home with a sacrifice fly to center. Matthew Torto (Binghamton, NY/Susquehanna Valley) was hit by a pitch to reload the bases before Jowendrick Sillie (Willemstad, Curacao/SGO Jacques Ferrandi) singled to center to score Scales. Henry Pellicciotti (Johnson City, NY/Johnson City) followed with a single to score Torto and Kettle to give the Hornets a 4-0 lead after the second inning.
Klenchik led off the third with a walk and Scales was hit by a pitch to put two runners on for the Hornets. Kettle drove Klenchik home with an RBI single to center and Aguilera doubled to left center to score Scales. Sillie and Jack Burns (Endicott, NY/Union-Endicott) earned back to back walks, forcing Kettle home. Pellicciotti then grounded into a fielder's choice, but Aguilera was able to score on the play.Terrence Garcia (Willemstad, Curacao/Marnix Cas Cora) earned a two out walk to load the bases and Klenchik singled to center in his second plate appearance of the inning in driving in Pellicciotti and Burns to give the Hornets a 10-0 lead after the two and a half innings.
The Red Barons got on the board in the bottom of the third, scoring three runs on a hit, a walk and were aided by two Hornet errors to pull within 10-3.
SUNY Broome answered back in the top of the fourth when Aguilera earned a one out walk and then scored on a Torto double to left. Burns reached on an error, and Torto was able to score on the play to push the Hornet lead to 12-3.
Jaidorick Woods (Willemstad, Curacao/Regina Paces) led off the sixth with a single to center and Joe Wasko (Binghamton, NY/Seton Catholic Central) reached on an error. Cody Burnett (Binghamton, NY/Binghamton) doubled to left field scoring both Woods and Wasko. Burnett would score later in the inning on a wild pitch to push the lead to 15-3.
Corning would plate a single run in the bottom of the fifth on a run and an error but the 15-4 lead was enough to give the Hornets the win.
Trey Alvarado (Port Lavaca, TX/Calhoun) threw a complete game three-hitter for the Hornets striking out four and did not allow an earned run.
The Hornets jumped out to a three run lead in the first inning of the second game when Sillie led off the game with a double. Two batters later Pellicciotti would single to drive Sillie in. Forrest Gilbert (Syracuse, NY/Solvay) singled to put runners on the corners for the Hornets. Pellicciotti would score on a passed ball, and Gilbert would score later when Todd Cutting (Johnson City, NY/Johnson City) reached on an error.
The Red Barons would cut the lead to 3-2 in the bottom of the third on two hits.
SUNY Broome pushed the lead to 4-2 in the top of the sixth when Cutting led off the inning with a walk. Cutting was pushed to second on a Rachid Martie (Willemstad, Curacao/VSBO St. Jozef) sacrifice bunt and would score on a Burns double to right center.
The Hornets took a 6-2 lead in the seventh. Pellicciotti hit a one out single and Gilbert was hit by a pitch with two outs to put runners on first and second. Cutting earned a walk to load the bases for the Hornets. Martie followed with a single to center scoring Pellicciotti and Gilbert.
Corning scored two runs in the bottom of the seventh on two hits and an error, but would get no closer.Kettle picked on the win for the Hornets in relief of starter Erick Wortman (Vestal, NY/Vestal) who only allowed two hits in four innings of work.
The Hornets will host Tompkins Cortland Community College in a double header Tuesday at 2 p.m.
