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Pitchers’ Delight

First-Inning Run Holds Up, Tarp Skunks Win 1-0

Seven-year-old Odin Luck of Detroit high-fives Jamestown’s Evan Chaffee, middle, and Matt Best during Friday’s Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League game at Diethrick Park in Jamestown. Odin was serving as the Tarp Skunks’ bat boy. P-J photo by Scott Kindberg

Take a bow Ryan Bilka, Andrew Ayers, Patrick DeMarco and Frank Villella.

You guys pitched a gem.

The Jamestown quartet combined on a five-hit, 12-strikeout performance to lift the Tarp Skunks to a 1-0 victory over Elmira in a Perfect Game Baseball League game at Diethrick Park on Friday night.

Bilka worked the first four innings, surrendering two hits and fanning seven; Ayers, the winning pitcher, struck out four and walked one in four innings; DeMarco struck out one and walked one in two-thirds of an inning; and Villella retired the final batter for his first save of the season.

The win raised Jamestown’s record to 6-3-1, while the Pioneers dropped to 6-4.

Grady Mee and Cooper Munro each had a double for the Tarp Skunks, who scored the game’s only run in the bottom of the first, courtesy of an RBI single by Colin Houck that scored Mee.

Max Zentil, one of three Elmira pitchers, took the loss, surrendering all five hits and striking out five in six innings. Joseph Keldsen and Gardner Meeks didn’t allow a hit in their relief appearances.

Offensively, the Pioneers were led by Wes Gingerrrich with a double and John Schroeder with a triple, but the visitors couldn’t string together enough hits to plate a run.

Jamestown is off today, travels to Geneva on Sunday and then is off Monday and Tuesday. Its next home game will be Wednesday when it entertain Batavia at 6:30 p.m.

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