Auburn moves onto the NY-Penn League Championship after defeating Oneonta 4-3.
Oneonta 4 @ Auburn 3
Auburn got off to a good start in this one scoring one in the bottom of the first. Benjamin Zeskind led off with a single to right field. Adam Calderone followed with another single. After a fly out Manny Rodriguez double to left. Zeskind scored, but Calderone was thrown out at the plate.
Oneonta scored one in the third on a walk, balk, stolen base and sac fly.
Auburn took the lead back in the bottom of the third. Zeskind reached base on a walk and advanced to 2nd on a Calderone sac bunt. A Mastroianni infield single moved him to third and Manny Rodriguez hit a sac fly to score Zeskind. After all that small ball Brad Emaus came up and hit a 2 run home run to go up 4-1.
Luis Perez got the start for the Doubledays and gave up just the one run in 6.1 innings. Joe Wice finished off the 7th inning for Perez.
Ryan Bird pitched an easy 8th inning - 2 Ks and a come backer. However, Bird came out for the 9th inning and gave up two singles to lead off the inning. He came back to strike out the next two before giving up a two run double. This brought out Cody Crowell who struck out the final batter for the win.
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