BUFFALO 9-SYRACUSE 3

Buffalo, NY (June 29, 2019) - The Syracuse Mets lost to the Buffalo Bisons, 9-3, on Saturday night at Sahlen Field. The Mets left seven runners on base and went 1-for-10 with runners in scoring position.

Buffalo (42-38) started the scoring with a four spot in the bottom of the second inning. Patrick Kivlehan walked, and two batters later, Richard Ureña doubled to score the game’s first run. From there, Reese McGuire and Andy Burns hit back-to-back home runs to score three more runs and give the Herd a 4-0 lead. 

Syracuse (39-42) scored it’s first run in the top of the fourth. Dilson Herrera doubled with one out, and René Rivera singled him home with two outs to make the score 4-1. 

The Bisons added three more runs in the sixth. Burns got a hold of his second home run of the day and eighth of the season to push the lead to 5-1. Alen Hanson and Bo Bichette both followed with walks, placing runners at first and second base for Socrates Brito who tripled, scoring both runners for a six-run advantage, 7-1.

Buffalo extended its lead in the seventh. Kivlehan led off with a triple and scored on a Jordan Patterson single to make it an 8-1 ballgame. Patterson advanced to second on a wild pitch, moved to third on a fly out to center field, and scored on a McGuire sacrifice fly to put the Bisons up 9-1. 

The Mets scored a run in the eighth and one in the ninth thanks to home runs. Grégor Blanco led off the eighth inning with a homer over the right-field wall to trim the deficit to 9-2. Then, Rivera crushed a ball over the center-field wall to lead off the ninth inning to bring the final margin to six, 9-3.

Syracuse and Buffalo conclude their three-game series on Sunday afternoon. RHP Walker Lockett will be on the mound for the Mets opposite RHP Conor Fisk for the Bisons. First pitch is scheduled for 1:05 p.m.

Zeke Bayt Leads After First Round in PBA Lubbock Sports Shootout

Five players among top 10 vying for first Go Bowling! PBA tour title

LUBBOCK, Texas (June 29, 2019) – Zeke Bayt, a 27-year-old right-hander from Westerville, Ohio, averaged 244.38 Saturday to lead the opening qualifying round in the PBA Lubbock Sports Shootout presented by Ebonite at South Plains Lanes.

Bayt, a semi-regular PBA touring player for the past four years, was one of five players among the top 10 after eight games who are trying for their first PBA Tour titles. Bayt’s best previous finish was third with partner Dick Allen in the 2017 Mark Roth-Marshall Holman PBA Doubles Championship. He overtook Brad Miller of Lee’s Summit, Missouri, in the final game to take the lead.

The Lubbock Sports Shootout is the opening event of the 2019 Go Bowling! PBA Summer Tour and the USBC Cup points competition. All 10 events in the summer series will be livestreamed exclusively by PBA’s online streaming partner, FloBowling.

Bayt rolled games of 226, 203, 258, 300, 212, 192, 278 and 286 for a first-round total of 1,955 pins, 43 ahead of Miller. Miller also is trying for his first PBA Tour title. Tom Daugherty of Riverview, Florida, was in third place with 1,872 pins followed by non-titlist AJ Chapman of Manchester, Iowa, at 1,870 and Dom Barrett of England with a 1,861 total.

Anthony Lavery-Spahr of Pasadena, Texas, and AJ Johnson of Oswego, Illinois, in seventh and ninth places, respectively are the other non-title winners among the top 10.

Competition continues Sunday when the top 39 qualifiers will advance to a six-game cashers round at 8:30 a.m. The top 16 after 14 games will bowl an eight-game match play round at 12:15 p.m. with the top four players advancing to the stepladder finals at 4:15 p.m. All times are Central.

Fans can catch all the live streaming action on FloBowling.com.  Visit www.flobowling.com for subscription and schedule information.

PBA LUBBOCK SPORTS SHOOTOUT

presented by Ebonite

South Plains Lanes, Lubbock Texas, Saturday

FIRST ROUND STANDINGS (after 8 games)

1, Zeke Bayt, Westerville, Ohio, 1,955.
2, Brad Miller, Lees Summit, Mo., 1,912.
3, Tom Daugherty, Riverview, Fla., 1,872.
4, AJ Chapman, Manchester, Iowa, 1,870.
5, Dom Barrett, England, 1,861.
6, Francois Lavoie, Canada, 1,836.
7, Anthony Lavery-Spahr, Pasadena, Texas, 1,806.
8, Jake Peters, Henderson, Nev., 1,805.
9, AJ Johnson, Oswego, Ill., 1,804.
10, Chris Barnes, Double Oak, Texas, 1,779.
11, Josh Montgomery, Flower Mound, Texas, 1,778.
12, Kyle Troup, Taylorsville, N.C., 1,769.
13, Shawn Maldonado, Houston, 1,758.
14, Bill O'Neill, Langhorne, Pa., 1,757.
15, Richie Teece, England, 1,753.
16, Darren Tang, Las Vegas, 1,751.
17, Jeremy McElliott, Phoenix, 1,745.
18, Jakob Butturff, Tempe, Ariz., 1,741.
19, Stuart Williams, England, 1,735.
20, Dylan Burns, Garden City, Kan., 1,734.
21, Patrick Hanrahan, Wichita, Kan., 1,728.
22, Greg Young, Viera, Fla., 1,719.
23, EJ Tackett, Bluffton, Ind., 1,717.
24, Josh Blanchard, Mesa, Ariz., 1,716.
25, Jason Belmonte, Australia, 1,713.
26, n-Joseph Grondin, San Pedro, Calif., 1,710.
27, Tommy Jones, Simpsonville, S.C., 1,707.
28, DJ Archer, Spring, Texas, 1,705.
28, James Watson, Austin, Texas, 1,705.
30, Nick Pate, Inver Grove Heights, Minn., 1,704.
31, n-Cody Meiers, Lubbock, Texas, 1,698.
32, Sean Rash, Montgomery, Ill., 1,697.
33, Sean Lavery-Spahr, Pasadena, Texas, 1,691.
34, Devin Bidwell, Wichita, Kan., 1,689.
35, Dick Allen, Lexington, S.C., 1,686.
36, n-Rick Benard, Clovis, N.M., 1,681.
37, David Maycock, Bermuda, 1,678.
38, Kamron Doyle, Brentwood, Tenn., 1,667.
39, Chris Via, Springfield, Ohio, 1,659.

Failed to advance:
40 (tie), n-Dylan Macon, Ennis, Texas, and Michael Austin, Conroe, Texas, 1,658.
42, Marshall Kent, Yakima, Wash., 1,654.
43, Mykel Holliman, Collierville, Tenn., 1,647.
44, Wes Malott, Pflugerville, Texas, 1,642.
45, Andrew Anderson, Holly, Mich., 1,633.
46, Juan Garza, Lubbock, Texas, 1,630.
47, Kris Koeltzow, Wheat Ridge, Colo., 1,621.
48 (tie), n-Rameses Chambers, Kansas City, Mo., and n-David McKay, Artesia, New Mexico, 1,618.
50, Thomas Rash, Spencer, Okla., 1,616.
51, Trey Ford III, Bartlesville, Okla., 1,611.
52, s-Harley Deckert, Odessa, Texas, 1,605.
53, Mitch Hupe, Canada, 1,592.
54, Tristan Butler, Fort Wayne, Ind., 1,589.
55, Nathan Bohr, Austin, Texas, 1,588.
56, n-Stefan Wood, Lubbock, Texas, 1,587.
57, Michael Tang, Johnstown, Ohio, 1,578.
58 (tie), Andrew Cain, Phoenix, and Tim Cagle II, Hercules, Calif., 1,575.
60 (tie), Martin Bedford, Gasport, N.Y., and Kenneth Bland Jr., San Antonio, Texas, 1,574.
62, Nate Garcia, Port St. Lucie, Fla., 1,573.
63, David Wilson, Amarillo, Texas, 1,568.
64, n-Blayne Hurst, Amarillo, Texas, 1,560.
65, n-Zach Wojciechowski, Lubbock, Texas, 1,557.
66, Scott McCleery, Lubbock, Texas, 1,556.
67, Donald Davis Jr., W. Tawakoni, Texas, 1,554.
68, Terry Ward, San Angelo, Texas, 1,550.
69, Lee White, Odessa, Texas, 1,548.
69, Zac Tackett, Huntington, Ind., 1,548.
71, Gabriel Yanes, Shertz, Texas, 1,547.
72, n-David Landbeck, Lubbock, Texas, 1,542.
73, n-Ramsey Basurto, Lancaster, Calif., 1,538.
74, Cody Copeland, Abilene, Texas, 1,532.
75, Toby Sambueno, Henderson, Nev., 1,528.
76, Athol Packer, Jr., Little Elm, Texas, 1,526.
77 (tie), Tyler Albracht, Amarillo, Texas, and Levi Fintel, Lubbock, Texas, 1,521.
79 (tie), Scotty Pope Jr., Midland, Texas, and Paul Brewbaker, Midwest City, Okla., 1,517.
81 (tie), n-Clinton Watkins, Andrews, Texas, and n-Myron Fleming, Grand Prairie, Texas, 1,511.
83, Mark Waters, Plainview, Texas, 1,501.
84 (tie), Mike Bailey, Irving, Texas, and n-Jason Tidwell, Odessa, Texas, 1,497.
86, n-Deo Benard, Rio Rancho, N.M., 1,495.
87, Todd Sigeti, Lititz, Pa., 1,487.
88, n-Kyle Gilbert, Phelan, Calif., 1,486.
89, n- Will Davis, Aretesia, N.M., 1,484.
90, Travis Tribolet, San Angelo, Texas, 1,482.
91, Keven Williams, Springfield, Mo.,, 1,479.
92, n-Frank Rose Jr, Bellaire, Texas, 1,478.
93, Randy Hawks, Balch Springs, Texas, 1,476.
94 (tie), Andy Patterson, Tyler, Texas, and Mason Edmondson, Amarillo, Texas, 1,474.
96, Michael Steele, Abilene, Texas, 1,472.
97, Joshua Garrard, Mustang, Okla., 1,462.
98, n-Bradley Harvey, Albuquerque, NM, 1,455.
99, n-Zachary Harvey, Albuquerque, N.M., 1,453.
100, Allan Smith, Killeen, Texas, 1,449.
101, n-Tyler Bryant, Colorado Spr., Colo., 1,447.
102, Jeremy Fowler, Odessa, Texas, 1,445.
103, n-Alan Berger, Lubbock, Texas, 1,439.
104, Charles Ramay, Lubbock, Texas, 1,436.
105, George Duke, Vidor, Texas, 1,431.
106, n-Jeromy Tidwell, Midland, Texas, 1,430.
107, David Scardaville, Houston, Texas, 1,429.
108, Billy Crider, Austin, Texas, 1,424.
109, Randy Turner, Shallowater, Texas, 1,419.
110, n-John Luke Green, Amarillo, Texas, 1,418.
111, James Grago, Hampstead, N.C., 1,414.
112, Mark Payne Sr., Amarillo, Texas, 1,396.
113, n-Joshua Mabry, Tucson, Ariz., 1,391.
114, James Cantere, Norman, Okla., 1,372.
115, n-Dustan Mahan, Washington, Okla., 1,364.
116, Francis Russo, Richmond, Texas, 1,342.
117, Jonathan Lawson, Canyon, Texas, 1,320.
118, Gerry Smith, Rio Rancho, N.M., 1,277.

300 games: DJ Archer, AJ Chapman, Zeke Bayt

Ponies Split DH with Curve in Pair of One-Run Games

Altoona, PA – The Binghamton Rumble Ponies (40-37, 5-8) split a doubleheader with the Altoona Curve (41-37, 6-5) on Saturday at Peoples Natural Gas Field. The Rumble Ponies won Game One 2-1 and dropped Game Two 4-3 in nine innings.

Game One – Rumble Ponies 2, Curve 1 (7)

Mickey Jannis (4-1) allowed just three hits and one run over six innings to earn his 25^th career win with Binghamton, tying him with Tyler Pill for the most in franchise history. In the seventh, Jannis allowed the first two hitters to get on before the tarp came on the field in what would be a 45-minute rain delay. When play resumed, Stephen Villines came in and earned his fifth save of the year.

Barrett Barnes had an RBI double in the first and Gavin Cecchini added an RBI single in the fifth proving to be just enough for the Ponies to hold on. It was Barnes third straight game with an RBI. It is Jannis second straight win allowing only one run in both of those outings.

Game Two – Curve 4, Rumble Ponies 3 (9)

Chris Sharpe had the walk-off RBI single in the ninth giving the Curve the extra-innings victory. For a fourth straight game, the Ponies got on the board first as Barrett Barnes again had an RBI double in the first. He has driven in at least one run in all four games of the series.

Joe Zanghi made his second straight start out of the bullpen and allowed two runs over three and two thirds innings pitched. Andres Gimenez RBI single in the fifth tied the game at two and Quinn Brodey’s RBI single in the eighth put the Ponies up 3-2. Altoona tied it in the bottom of the eighth on a sac bunt by Arden Pabst in which pitcher Joseph Shaw (0-3) committed a throwing error.

POSTGAME NOTES: The Ponies fall to 6-2 in extra-inning games…This is the second doubleheader the two clubs have played against each other, as Binghamton swept the first one at NYSEG Stadium on May 14…Ali Sanchez only played in Game 2 and finished 0-4 as his 18-game hitting streak came to a close. It was the longest hitting streak this season in the Eastern League.

The rubber game of the five-game series concludes Sunday night from Altoona with first pitch at 6:00PM on Newsradio 1290 WNBF and the Binghamton Rumble Ponies channel on TuneIn. The Horizons Federal Credit Union pregame show begins at 5:45.

SCRANTON/WILKES-BARRE RAILRIDERS (46-34) @ LEHIGH VALLEY IRONPIGS (37-41)

RHP Brody Koerner (3-1, 4.60) vs. RHP Ramon Rosso (0-1, 4.60)

|  Game No. 81  |  Coca-Cola Park  |  Allentown, PA  |  June 30, 2019  |  First Pitch 1:35 p.m.  |

ALLENTOWN, PA (June 29, 2019) -- Shane Robinson did not homer in 50 games and 188 at-bats for the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders in 2018. Saturday night, he delivered a pair of homers and drove home five runs against his former team as the Lehigh Valley IronPigs notched a 12-3 victory over SWB before a sellout crowd of 10,100 at Coca-Cola Park.
The barrage began for Lehigh Valley just two batters into the game when Robinson delivered a two-run homer clubbed to left field. By the time he stepped to the plate in the 6th inning and drilled his second two-run homer of the night, the IronPigs had extended their lead to 7-1, and his second blast made it 9-1.
RailRiders pitching recorded their final six outs via strikeouts, including J.P. Feyereisen who notched a scoreless inning in his first time out since being named an International League All-Star Wednesday. 
The RailRiders scored a run in the top of the 5th inning to plate their first run of the game, with Mike Ford’s RBI double doing the honors. He later belted a solo homer to begin the 8th inning and finished the game 3-for-5 with a pair of doubles, a home run and two RBI. Tyler Wade (2-for-5) and Clint Frazier (2-for-5) also logged multi-hit games for Scranton/Wilkes-Barre as they fell Saturday night depite a 12-hit attack.
SLIDING INTO JULY: The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders wake up Sunday morning with a 4.0-game lead in the IL North Division after dropping a third straight game Saturday night to the Lehigh Valley IronPigs. The last time they were only 4.0 games up in the division was following a loss 27 days ago June 7th against the Syracuse Mets. This marks the third losing streak of at least three games this season for SWB, and they’ll look to avoid matching their four-game streak from April 17-April 23 as the longest of the season.
THIS FELT DIFFERENT: The RailRiders dropped a second straight game Friday night to the Lehigh Valley IronPigs via a one-run loss, dropping them to 11-13 in one-run games this season. However, the RailRiders held a 3-2 lead entering the 7th inning before giving up the tying run in the bottom of the 7th and surrendering the winning run in the 8th. Before Friday, the 2019 RailRiders had been 38-0 when leading after six innings.
A DIFFERENT SITUATION: The RailRiders entered Friday’s series-opener against the Lehigh Valley IronPigs having to take on two of the top arms in the International League in RHP Enyel De Los Santos (3-3, 3.28) and LHP Cole Irvin (2-0, 2.50). SWB had faced De Los Santos once already this season, scoring four times in the bottom of the first inning, with Tyler Wade’s two-run homer capping the early barrage. Friday night, De Los Santos had shut down the RailRiders’ bats until the 5th inning. Over the first 4.2 innings he had allowed just three hits before three runs scored with two outs to give the RailRiders a 3-1 lead. Meanwhile, Irvin appeared in games April 10th and 17th and the RailRiders did not have the same level of success in notching just 1 ER off the southpaw in 12.2 IP (0.71 ERA).This continues a dominating trend for the two starters from a season ago, when Irvin and De Los Santos appeared in a combined 10G/10GS against SWB and was downright stingy: 3-2, 56.2 IP, 57 H (.261 BAA), 15R/15ER (2.38 ERA), 49 K, 10 BB
HANDLED AT HOME: The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders welcomed the Buffalo Bisons to town Wednesday night for a three-game, two-day set between the top two teams in the International League North Division. Entering play Wednesday, the RailRiders held a 5.0-game lead on Buffalo, but the lead could have gotten reduced to 2.0 games had Buffalo continued its play as the hottest team in the IL. Instead, the RailRiders took the first two games of the series before dropping the nightcap of Thursday’s doubleheader, 1-0 (7). The RailRiders and Bisons have now met 17 times this season entering Thursday’s doubleheader, with the RailRiders holding an 11-5 advantage (Home: 5-6 // Road: 6-0). The two teams will not meet again until the final four games of the regular season August 30 - September 2 at PNC Field.
ON PACE: The RailRiders have a number of players at the midway point of the season who are locked-in on setting a new career-high in home runs in a seasonMike Ford: 19 HR (Career-High: 20 HR, 2017)Ryan McBroom: 16 HR (Career-High: 22 HR, 2016)Trey Amburgey: 13 HR (Career-High: 16 HR, 2018)Breyvic Valera: 10 HR (Career-High)Gosuke Katoh: 7 HR (Career-High)
MORE POWER: Logan Morrison homered just over a week ago to became the sixth member of the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders to record double-digit homers this season. He three more over the next three games and is now up to 14 longballs on the season. He has joined Mike Ford (16), Ryan McBroom (16), Kyle Higshioka (11), Trey Amburgey (10) and Brad Miller (10) among the team leaders. Last year’s team had only six players with 10+ homers. Up next for the 2019 RailRiders: Breyvic Valera (9).

PBA Spare Shots

FOLLOW PBA SUMMER TOUR, USBC CUP POINTS STANDINGS BEGINNING SUNDAY

With the conclusion of the PBA Lubbock Sports Shootout, the first event of the PBA Summer Tour on FloBowling, pba.com will begin tracking the USBC Cup points standings Sunday at the following link:

https://www.pba.com/SeasonStats/PointsList/132?list=6. The winner of the Lubbock event, a Tier 3 tournament in PBA’s points system, will earn 2,500 points to get the summer points race underway.

In addition to offering PBA Summer Tour competitors a total of $40,000 in bonus prize money based upon how the top five players perform across the 10-event series of tournaments, competition points earned during the summer will qualify eight players to bowl for a $25,000 first prize in the first FloBowling ATX Invite at Dart Bowl in Austin, Texas, on Sept. 21, and the same eight players will earn expenses-paid trips to compete in the inaugural PBA China Tiger Cup Nov. 19-21 which also will offer a $20,000 top prize.

The PBA Summer Tour landing page includes a complete listing of tournament schedules along with competition points values assigned to each event. The points standings will be updated immediately upon the conclusion of each tournament in the summer series.

The entire PBA Summer Tour will be livestreamed exclusively by FloBowling, which also will livestream all remaining PBA50 Tour events in July and August plus the Teen Masters July 1-5. FloBowling is available around the world on a subscription basis. Visit flobowling.com for details and enrollment information. Check the “Xtra Frame on FloBowling” link on pba.com (https://www.pba.com/Live) for a complete schedule of livestreaming times.

While July and August will be packed with PBA and PBA50 Tour action on FloBowling, the PBA Tour’s summer schedule also includes three consecutive nights of PBA League Elias Cup competition July 16, 17 and 18 from Bayside Bowl in Portland, Maine, live on FOX Sports’ FS1 channel, and two days of Barbasol PBA Tour Finals coverage, presented by Red Rock Casino, Resort & Spa, live on CBS Sports Network, July 20-21, from Red Rock Lanes in Las Vegas.

PBA CEO/COMMISSIONER TOM CLARK RECEIVES KEGEL’S JOHN DAVIS AWARD

PBA CEO and Commissioner Tom Clark was the 19th recipient of the John Davis Award, presented by Kegel – the company the late John Davis co-founded – Wednesday at International Bowl Expo in Las Vegas. The award is presented annually to an individual who is actively involved in trying to advance the sport of bowling. A perpetual plaque, bearing each recipient’s name, is permanently displayed in The Kegel Training Center in Lake Wales, Fla.

“(Clark) brought the PBA from the doldrums to probably the greatest of all-time,” said PBA Hall of Famer Len Nicholson, the former PBA supervisor of lane maintenance and host of the long-running “The Phantom” internet podcast, as he presented the award.

“I loved John Davis. Any award with his name on it and celebrates what (Kegel CEO) Chris Chartrand and Kegel have done to keep his name alive, is amazing,” Clark said. “To have you guys recognize me is sweet, very nice.

“I used to have conversations with John that would last for hours, and they never got boring,” Clark added. “All John cared about was the sport of bowling, and that’s what I care about, too.”

FLORIDA’S BILL ROGERS WINS PBA BOWLING CHALLENGE “PBA PLAYOFFS” SPECIAL EVENT

Bill Rogers of Rotonda West, Fla., won the “PBA Playoffs Challenge” special event conducted as part of Concrete Software’s PBA Bowling Challenge in early June. The special competition required a contestant to bowl a game higher than the 216 game Kris Prather bowled in his second game in winning the PBA Playoffs on the PBA Bowling Challenge game for mobile devices.

Rogers was among the 22,866 unique players who re-entered the contest an average of 4.5 times, generating a total of 103,513 submissions – a record for the PBA mobile device game. Rogers had 14 submissions and his winning score was selected at random among those who topped Prather’s 216. Numerous players submitted more than 100 game scores.

For his win, Rogers receives a PBA bowling pin autographed by Prather plus 6,000 PBA Bowling Challenge gold pins from Concrete Software.

PBA REGIONAL UPDATE: VENTURA WINS NINTH REGIONAL TITLE IN NEW HYDE PARK

Sammy Ventura of Norwich, N.Y., a two-time East Region PBA50 Player of the Year, compiled a 5-3 match play record and a 15-game total of 3,598 pins to win the PBA50 Ned Micelli Memorial at Herrill Lanes in New Hyde Park, N.Y., Saturday by a mere six pins over reigning PBA50 East Region Player of the Year Rick Graham of Lancaster, Pa.

Ventura qualified second, 11 pins behind Graham, but quickly assumed the lead, which he held throughout the first seven games of the round robin match play finals. Ventura held a 69-pin lead over Graham going into the final match, but Graham started with four strikes and found himself in position to win before he suffered an open frame in the seventh frame. After Graham failed to strike in the ninth, Ventura had the title clinched despite an open in the final frame.

Ventura won $1,500 along with his ninth overall PBA Regional title while Graham earned $800.

The new PBA East Region event was organized by PBA member Glenn Smith to honor the late Ned Micelli, a long-time fellow competitor. Micelli, who died in July 2017, competed well into his 80s throughout the Long Island area.

• Greg Thomas of Irmo, S.C., defeated red-hot Stoney Baker of Canton, Ga., 233-166, to win the PBA50 Aberdeen South Open at SandHills Bowling Center in Aberdeen, N.C., Sunday.

Thomas won $2,600 along with his fifth overall PBA Regional title. He started the championship game with five strikes and that was all he needed in running away with the win after Baker ran into trouble early and couldn’t recover.

In the semifinal round, Thomas defeated Brian Kretzer of Dayton, Ohio, 179-165, while Baker disposed of PBA Hall of Famer Walter Ray Williams Jr. of Oxford, Fla., 249-227, in the other semifinal round match.

• Myles Duty of Modesto, Calif. posted a 6-4 match play record and knocked down 4,543 pins Sunday to win his second PBA Regional title in the PBA Epi Center Northwest/West Open in Klamath Falls, Ore.

Duty, who earned $2,000, defeated non-PBA member Anthony Thompson of Redding, Calif., by 21 pins for the title. Thompson had an 8-2 match play record and 4,522 total pins for his 18 games including match play bonus pins.

In the companion PBA50 Open, John Gould of Yuba City, Calif., went 6-2 and knocked down 3,944 total pins to top Bob Rosenau of Redding, Calif., for his first PBA50 Regional title and third title overall. Rosenau had a 3-5 match play record and a total of 3,745 pins.

• Non-PBA member Cory Hines of Jackson, Mich. defeated Chandler Stevens of Archbold, Ohio, 276-193, to win the PBA Pro Bowl West Central/Midwest Challenge presented by Ebonite at Pro Bowl West in Fort Wayne, Ind., on Saturday.

Challenge events are open to PBA members without a PBA title or non-members who have never won a PBA event. Hines earned $1,500 for the win, but since he is not a PBA member, he does not receive credit for a PBA regional title.

Hines downed Charlie Brown Jr. of Granville, Mich., 248-203 while Stevens edged Michael Bankert of Indianapolis, 267-255, in semifinal round matches to set up the championship match.

•  Closing out the June PBA Regional calendar this weekend will be the PBA-PBA50 John Kontos Memorial Midwest/Central Doubles Open at Town & Country Lanes in Joliet, Ill., and the Century Lanes Hampton South Open in Hampton, Va.

• Heading into the 4th of July weekend, Bowl 10 Fairborn will host the PBA50 Fairborn Central Classic presented by Roto Grip Monday-Wednesday, July 1-3, in Fairborn, Ohio. Closing the extended holiday weekend July 5-7 will be the PBA50 Greater Freeport Midwest/Central Open at 4 Seasons Bowl in Freeport, Ill.; the Grand Casino Hotel & Resort Southwest Doubles presented by DV8 at FireLake Bowling Center in Shawnee, Okla., and the PBA/PBA50 Vanessa Brown Homes West Open doubleheader presented by Track at Yosemite Lanes in Modesto, Calif.

● For complete PBA Regional schedules, rules and entry information, visit pba.com, open the “schedules” tab and click on PBA Regional Tours to find the event(s) in your area…and remember, you can follow “live scoring” for all PBA Regional events on pba.com (easily accessible for Apple and Android device users using the PBA app).

QUICK NOTES

• Long-time PBA member Lee Vanderhoef of Fuquay-Varina, N.C., became the third bowler in the 116-year history of the USBC Open Championships to bowl three perfect games in the tournament when he rolled his most recent 300 during his team event on June 20 at the South Point Bowling Plaza in Las Vegas. Vanderhoef, 40, rolled his first 300 in the 2009 USBC Open Championships, also in Las Vegas, and he joined the list of 31 other bowlers with multiple 300s when he recorded No. 2 during the 2013 tournament in Reno.

• You still have time to help select the winner if the 2019 ESPY “best bowler” award by voting online at ESPN.com/ESPYS and social media platforms: https://www.espn.com/espys/story/_/page/voting48/best-athlete-sport. ESPN’s candidates are Jason Belmonte, Norm Duke, Jakob Butturff and Anthony Simonsen. The winner will be announced during the ESPYs telecast on ABC-TV on Wednesday, July 10, at 8 p.m. Eastern.

• Reminder: Tickets to watch the 2019 Barbasol PBA Tour Finals presented by Red Rock Casino, Resort & Spa are still available. For tickets for the July 20-21 battle between the PBA’s elite eight players based upon total points earned during the 2018 and 2019 Go Bowling! PBA Tour seasons, visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/barbasol-pba-tour-finals-presented-by-red-rock-casino-resort-spa-tickets-57610119418. The field of eight will include Jason Belmonte, Jakob Butturff, Anthony Simonsen, EJ Tackett, Marshall Kent, Bill O’Neill, Andrew Anderson and Kris Prather. The Barbasol PBA Tour Finals will be televised live by CBS Sports Network over a span five shows (two on Saturday, July 20 and three on Sunday, July 21).

 

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Dilson Herrera is hitting .267 this season with a team-leading 17 home runs and 16 doubles (Danny Tripodi).

Syracuse Mets infielder Dilson Herrera has been selected to the 2019 International League All-Star Team that will compete against the Pacific Coast League's All-Stars at Southwest University Park in El Paso, TX on Wednesday, July 10th at 9:00 p.m. The selection marks Herrera’s third time being named an All-Star. The 25-year-old was named a South Atlantic League All-Star with West Virginia (A-Pirates) in 2013 and a Florida State League All-Star with St. Lucie (A-Mets) in 2014.

Herrera has a career-high 17 home runs this season, which leads the team and ranks seventh in the International League. Herrera also leads the team with 16 doubles. The Cartagena, Columbia native’s 33 extra-base hits rank tenth in the league. Entering today, Herrera has a .267 batting average with 38 RBIs this year. Since June 9th, Herrera has reached base in 16 straight games with hits in 15 of those games. During that stretch, Herrera is third in the league with a .400 batting average (22-for-55) and leads the league with eight home runs.

“I’m really excited to make the team,” Herrera said. “I’ve been working hard every day to get better, and this is an exciting opportunity.”

“We’re excited for Dilson to represent the Syracuse Mets,” said Mets manager Tony DeFrancesco. “He’s been a good power bat in our lineup and has been driving in runs for us, especially recently.”

Herrera is in his fourth season in the New York Mets organization and his first since 2016. Herrera made his MLB debut with the Mets in 2014 and also played part of the 2015 season with New York. He spent the last two and a half years in the Cincinnati Reds organization before signing a minor league contract with the Mets before this season.

Please see the attached news release and 2019 I.L. All-Star roster from the International League announcement.

SCRANTON/WILKES-BARRE RAILRIDERS GAME REPORT

Lehigh Valley  4  -  Scranton/Wilkes-Barre  3

Unearned run in the bottom of the 8^th inning proves costly for RailRiders

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ALLENTOWN, PA (June 28, 2019) – Friday night’s game before a sellout crowd of 10,100 fans at Coca-Cola Park was deadlocked entering the bottom of the 8^th inning, but a throwing miscue by the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders allowed an unearned run to score giving the Lehigh Valley IronPigs a 4-3 series-opening win.
In what proved to be the decisive inning, the RailRiders sent Jonathan Holder to the mound for a 2nd inning in his first game with Scranton/Wilkes-Barre this season. After allowing a run in the 7^th inning, the 8^th inning began with a single by Malquin Canelo. He was bunted into scoring position by Phil Gosselin and was there with two outs when Andrew Romine came to the plate.
The RailRiders opted to bring Danny Coulombe from the bullpen to face the switch-hitting Romine who bats 20 points lower from the right side of the plate. He smoked a hard groundball to the right side of the infield, in which first baseman Logan Morrison made an incredible diving stop to keep the ball on the infield, but then delivered a wayward throw to Coulombe covering the bag to allow Canelo to round third base and score the eventual winning run.
The RailRiders trailed 1-0 early, but threw three runs on the board in the top of the 5^th inning with some two-out action off IronPigs starter Enyel De Los Santos. Erik Kratz doubled and was at second base with one out when Mike Ford walked. Breyvic Valera singled home Kratz to tie the game 1-1. The next man up was Tyler Wade who sliced a triple to left-centerfield to score Ford and Valera and give the RailRiders their last runs of the night.
Lehigh Valley scored single runs in the 2^nd, 5^th and 7^th innings to set up the go-ahead situation in the 8^th to come away with the win.
Adonis Rosa got the start for SWB and turned in his finest performance of the season despite picking up a no-decision. Over 6.0 innings he scattered four hits and struck out seven batters while allowing two runs on just a pair of solo home runs from Lehigh Valley’s Austin Listi.
The RailRiders and IronPigs go head-to-head for the middle game of their three-game set Saturday with a 6:35 p.m. scheduled first pitch. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre sends RHP Randall Delgado (1-2, 4.50) to the mound, going up against LHP Cole Irvin (2-0, 2.50) who has allowed just one earned run in 12.1 innings against SWB this season. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre returns to PNC Field on Thursday, July 4. For tickets and more information, call (570) 969-BALL or slide to www.swbrailriders.com/tickets.

Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders Record:

46-33

Ponies Power Their Way Past Curve Friday Night

Altoona, PA – The Binghamton Rumble Ponies (39-36, 4-7) used three homers in the game along with two big runs in the ninth to beat the Altoona Curve 7-5 on Friday night at Peoples Natural Gas Field. It snaps both a four-game losing streak overall and a four-game skid against the Curve (40-36, 5-4).

Quinn Brodey had the go-ahead RBI double in the ninth that put the Ponies up 6-5 with the next batter Will Toffey belting an opposite field solo homer. With the Ponies down 4-1 in the sixth, Patrick Mazeika hit a two-run shot down the right-field line, his eighth of the year, to make it 4-3. Then Barrett Barnes hit a two out two-run home run in the eighth to put the Ponies up 5-4. Altoona though responded with a pinch-hit RBI double from Brett Pope off Ryder Ryan to tie the score before Binghamton took the lead for good off losing pitcher Angel German (2-2) in the ninth.

Eric Hanhold (1-0) gets the win going two scoreless innings allowing one walk and two strikeouts and closing out the game with a 1-2-3 bottom of the ninth. David Peterson was in command over the first four frames but gave up four runs in the fifth in the no-decision. Matt Blackham pitched a scoreless sixth while Ryan allowed two runs over 1+ innings.

Mazeika finished the night 3-4 with two runs scored and two RBI. Brodey was 2-4 with one run scored and an RBI. Both Mazeika and Barnes now have eight home runs which leads the team. Toffey’s long ball was his fourth of the season.

The five-game series over four days in Altoona continues Saturday afternoon with a doubleheader. First pitch of Game One is at 4:30PM on Newsradio 1290 WNBF and on the Binghamton Rumble Ponies channel on TuneIn. The Horizons Federal Credit Union Pregame Show starts at 4:15PM. Game Two will begin approximately 30 minutes after the conclusion of Game One.  

POSTGAME NOTES: The Rumble Ponies are now an Eastern League best 27-13 on the road …David Peterson hit a triple off the centerfield wall in the top of the fifth for his second hit of the year (and of his career)…Saturday will be the third doubleheader the Rumble Ponies are playing this week.

TEBOW HOMERS IN SYRACUSE LOSS

Buffalo, NY (June 28, 2019) - The Syracuse Mets fell a run short despite a late rally in a 3-2 loss to the Buffalo Bisons on Friday night at Sahlen Field. Tim Tebow homered for Syracuse in the game.

Buffalo (41-38) struck first in the bottom of the first inning. With one out, Socrates Brito singled. After a Jonathan Davis fly out to right field, Jordan Patterson hit a two-run home run over the right-center-field wall, giving the Bisons a 2-0 lead.

Syracuse (39-41) responded in the top of the second. With two outs, Tebow hit an opposite-field home run to left field that cut the Buffalo edge to one, 2-1.

The Bisons extended their lead in the seventh. Davis led off with a double. Two batters later, Patrick Kivlehan singled to center field, scoring Davis for a 3-1 Buffalo advantage.

The Mets came right back in the eighth. Arismendy Alcantara singled, Luis Guillorme walked, and Rubén Tejada singled to load the bases. After Dilson Herrera struck out, Danny Espinosa hit a sacrifice fly to right field, scoring Alcantara to pull the Mets within one, 3-2. René Rivera then shot a ball to the right-field warning track, but it was caught, ending the frame.

Syracuse had the tying run at second base with one out in the ninth, but Buffalo reliever Justin Shafer struck out back-to-back batters to end the game.

The Mets and Bisons continue their three-game series on Saturday night. LHP Anthony Kay will throw for Syracuse opposite LHP Thomas Pannone for Buffalo. First pitch is scheduled for 6:05 p.m.