Nick Stinson’s gem of a relief outing (five innings, no runs) gave the Amherst Sandy Koufax baseball team the opportunity to pull away from a scrappy Greenfield team that put up four runs in the top of the first on Saturday. Stinson pounded the strike zone over his five innings, striking out five and allowing only two hits. Amherst’s 12-6 PVYBL victory took them to 9-2-1 on the season.
Brady Klaes again led the Amherst offense, going 2-for-2 with a single and a triple while scoring three runs. Oliver Howard and Drew Holland also had multi-hit games, with Howard driving in three via his two singles. Other runs and hits came from Gus Garrett Peltier, Read Guidera (double), Cyrus Arwade, Daniel Lebron, Tristan Feeley and Julian Park.
Amherst will play its final regular season home game at Amherst Middle School on Friday at 5:30 p.m. against the Warriors from Dalton before heading into the PVYBL playoffs during the last week of July.
Amherst 3, Whitingham (Vt.) 2 — The Hurricanes completed a regular-season sweep of their cross-border rival on Sunday, as Brady Klaes dominated from the mound to slow down the Whitingham offense.
The hosts from Southern Vermont did push one run across in the top of the first, but Amherst answered right back with catcher Cyrus Arwade driving home Oliver Howard with a sharp single to right-center field. The ‘Canes built their lead to 3-1 with runs in the third and fourth innings, Klaes providing one with an RBI hit that scored Gus Garrett Peltier and Arwade coming around to score on a Drew Holland single to left.
Whitingham got one back in the sixth, and facing the 95-pitch limit for the league, Klaes recorded the third out on a strikeout with his final pitch to set up reliever Holland to come in for the close in the seventh. Holland earned the save, recording three infield outs, with Oscar Reich scooping the game-winning out from the dirt at first base.
On the night, Klaes struck out seven in his six frames and went 1-for-2 with a walk and an RBI from the plate.
Northampton 21, Frontier 1 — Miles Cameron collected four hits in four at bats to propel the Blue Devils’ PVYBL Koufax team past Frontier on Sunday in South Deerfield. Cameron doubled in the first inning, doubled in the fourth inning, singled in the third inning and singled again in the fourth.
Northampton jumped out to a 7-0 lead in the top of the first inning after Rios (RBI single), Dylan Lawrence-Riddell (two-run single), Nicholas Theroux (RBI ground out) and Cameron (RBI double) all ripped run-scoring hits. A dozen more runs came in the fourth, with the big hits in the frame coming off the bats off Jackson Galenski (two-run double), Bradyn Rios (two-run triple), Theroux (RBI double) and Cameron (RBI single).
Theroux started the game for the Blue Devils and allowed three hits and no runs across four innings, striking out five and walking three.
Northampton collected 10 hits in the game, while Frontier’s Luca Pontani went 2-for-2 at the plate and led the team with one run batted in.
