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Barton Plumbing reaches state final round

CLEARFIELD — Altoona Barton Plumbing and Heating moved into the championship round of the Pa. State VFW 15-16 Teener Baseball Tournament by knocking out Hollidaysburg on Monday.

Barton Plumbing, the Section 4 runner-up, beat Hollidaysburg, the Section 4 champ, 17-8, in an elimination game.

Barton Plumbing, 4-1 in the tourney, will face undefeated Clearfield in the championship game at 11 a.m. today. Barton must win that game to force a second winner-take-all game at 2 p.m.

Against Hollidaysburg, Altoona trailed 4-2 heading to the sixth inning and scored seven runs in the sixth and eight in the seventh.

Adam Sinisi collected four hits and two RBIs for Barton, Bryce Noland delivered three hits and two RBIs, Owen Kravetz had two hits and three RBIs, Mike McCall contributed three hits, Ian Yon homered and drove in three, and Danny Carrieri had two RBIs.

Michael Turiano homered and drove in four runs for Hollidaysburg.

Barton Plumbing had kept its hopes alive earlier Monday with an 11-1 victory over Huntingdon.

Jake Hunter fired a four-hitter for Barton with six strikeouts. He also had two hits. McCall led the offense with two hits and three RBIs, Matt Hartman had two hits, and Kravetz drove in a pair of runs.

Hollidaysburg entered the day at 2-0 but lost to Clearfield, 12-0, before getting ousted by Barton Plumbing.

ALTOONA BARTON 11, HUNTINGDON 1

SCORE BY INNINGS

Huntingdon 000 010 X– 1 4 3

Altoona Barton 070 202 X–11 11 3

2B–Kravetz, Sinisi (AB). Multiple hits–McCall 2, Hunter 2, Hartman 2 (AB). RBI–Kravetz 2, McCall 3, Yon, Hunter, Carrieri (AB). WP–Hunter. LP–Peck. SO–Hunter 6 (AB); Peck 4 (H). BB–Hunter 7 (AB); Peck 7 (H).

CLEARFIELD 12, HOLLIDAYSBURG 0

SCORE BY INNINGS

Clearfield 222 101 4–12 13 3

Hollidaysburg 000 000 0– 0 1 4

2B–Peacock (C); Criswell (H). HR–Myers (C). Multiple hits–Peacock 2, Bumbarger 3, Myers 2, Glass 2, Williams 2 (C). RBI–Barr, Peacock, Bumbarger, Myers 5, Bender, Glass, Walker (C). WP–Dixon. LP–Kratzer. SO–Dixon 3 (C); Kratzer 2, Bossinger 2 (H). BB–Kratzer 3, Bossinger 2 (H).

ALTOONA BARTON 17, HOLLIDAYSBURG 8

SCORE BY INNINGS

Altoona Barton 011 007 8–17 16 2

Hollidaysburg 004 003 1– 8 9 2

2B–Kravetz, Sinisi, Barton, Hartman (AB); Pierce (H). 3B–Carrieri, Sinisi (AB). HR–Yon (AB); Turiano (H). Multiple hits–Kravetz 2, McCall 3, Sinisi 4, Noland 3 (AB); Mierly 2, Turiano 3, Pierce 3 (H). RBI–Kravetz 3, Yon 3, Carrieri 2, Sinisi 2, Noland 2, Hunter, Barton, Hartman (AB); Turiano 4, Mierly, Walters, Bossinger (H). WP–Barton. LP–Adams. SO–Kuhns 2 (AB); Turiano 4, Adams 2 (H). BB–Kuhns 1, Barton 2, Noland 2 (AB); Turiano 1, Adams 1, Bossinger 1, Walters 1 (H).

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