JOHNSTOWN — Cumming Motors ran into a buzzsaw in its AAABA National Tournament game at Sargent’s Stadium at the Point Tuesday night.
Greensburg native Justin Wright, a crafty right-handed pitcher who plays collegiate baseball at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, worked 7• strong innings, allowing just three hits, one run and striking out seven batters, to lead Johnstown’s Paul Carpenter Capital Advisors entry to an 11-1, eight-inning mercy-rule victory.
Wright tossed 105 pitches, 67 of which were strikes, before departing with a 6-0 lead after former Central High School standout Hunter Klotz smoked a one-out triple into the rightfield corner in the top of the eighth inning.
Klotz later scored the only Cumming Motors run on a wild pitch by Carpenter Capital’s Ben Mongelluzzo, before the Johnstown entry scored five runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to put the 10-run mercy rule into effect and end the game.
Kudos were offered by both managers for Wright’s exceptional performance.
“He was phenomenal,” Cumming Motors manager Chris Sanders said of Wright, who didn’t allow a hit until Huntingdon Area High School product Drew Weglarz’s fifth-inning single. “He was keeping the ball down and mixing his speeds up.
“Our players haven’t played under the lights here before, and they said that they were having trouble picking the ball up, but hats off to their pitcher.”
Wright wanted to stay in the game even though he had surpassed the 100-pitch mark in the eighth inning, and told Carpenter manager Dave Sheriff so when Sheriff came out to the mound.
“I felt real good, I told Dave that I wanted to stay in, but I also realized that I might be needed to pitch later in the week,” Wright said. “I had my two-seam fast ball working well early on, and I have a good working relationship with my catcher, Jayden Taitano. We’re on the same page.”
Sheriff couldn’t have asked for a better effort from Wright.
“He threw the ball really well,” Sheriff said. “The only reason that I took him out was because he had reached the 105-pitch mark. He throws a two-seam fast ball that runs in on the hitters, and a slider that keeps them off-balance.
“He did a hell of a job.”
Carpenter Capital got all the offense it needed in the first inning, capitalizing on wildness by Cumming Motors starting and losing pitcher Tristin Lockett to score three runs.
Billy Perroz started the rally with a one-out single, was wild-pitched to second, and scored on a single to right-center by Joe Olsavsky, who took second base on the throw in from the outfield.
Olsavsky went to third on another Lockett wild pitch, and Brandon Lane walked and stole second. Olsavsky scored on a groundout by Austin Homer to give Carpenter Financial a 2-0 lead.
After Taitano and Jace Cappillianni both drew walks to load the bases, Lockett walked Connor Bannias to force in Lane with the third run of the inning.
“Getting that early lead made it comfortable for me,” Wright said.
Carpenter Capital — now 2-0 in the tournament with a game against Buffalo on tap tonight at the Point — flexed its muscles with a pair of long home runs against Cumming Motors reliever Jayce McCombie, who did throw 5 2/3 strong innings after coming on in the first inning.
Taitano cleared the center field wall with a solo blast in the fifth, and Lane hit a titanic two-run shot that easily made it over the 58-foot-high left field wall in the seventh, staking Carpenter Financial to a 6-0 lead.
“I was just waiting for a good pitch to hit, and that put us up 6-0,” said Lane, who plays collegiate baseball at Seton Hill College in Greensburg. “There isn’t a single weak spot up and down our entire lineup.”
Carpenter Capital salted the game away with five runs on only one hit – Olsavsky’s two-run single — against two Cumming Motors relievers in the bottom of the eighth inning. Two Carpenter Financial batters walked and three more were hit by pitches in the inning, which started with a Cumming Motors error.
Cumming Motors (1-1) needs a win today to get out of pool play and stay alive. Cumming Motors faces New Brunswick (1-1) in a noon game at Mount Aloysius College.
“We’re playing every game to win,” Sanders said. “We’ve got to move on.”
CUMMING MOTORS (1): Hillard lf 400, Klotz c 411, Gearhart dh 400, Burd 1b 302, Lehner rf 400, Parks 3b 300, Weglarz cf 301, Chamberlain 2b 300, Mock ss 100. Totals – 29-1-4.
CARPENTER FINANCIAL ADVISORS (11): Sabol cf 411, Perroz 1b 423, Olsavsky ss 332, Lane rf 231, Wright p 000, Mongelluzzo p 000, Homer dh 500, Taitano c 311, Capilliani 3b 200, Bannias 2b 400, Sweeny lf 410. Totals – 31-11-8.
SCORE BY INNINGS
Cumming Motors 000 000 01X–1-4-2
Carpenter Financial 300 010 25X–11-8-0
E–.Klotz, Chamberlain. 3B–Klotz. HR–Taitano, Lane. RBI–Olsavsky 3, Lane 2, Taitano 2, Bannias 2, Cappilliani, Homer. SB–Lane. CS–Taitano (Klotz to McCombie). HBP–Mock 2 by Wright; Lane by Turiano; Taitano by Turiano; Cappilliani by Turiano. LOB–Carpenter Financial Advisors 10, Cumming Motors 7.
PITCHING
Cumming Motors: Lockett (L) 2/3IP, 2H, 3R, 3ER, 4BB, 1SO; McCombie 5 1/3IP, 5H, 3R, 3ER, 3BB, 2SO; Maynard 1+IP, 0H, 3R, 2ER, 3BB, 0SO; Turiano 2/3IP, 1H, 2R, 2ER, 0BB, OSO.
Carpenter Financial Advisors: Wright (W) 7 1/3IP, 3H, 1R, 1ER, 1BB, 7SO; Mongelluzzo 2/3IP, 1H, 0R, 0ER, 0BB, 1SO.
WP–Lockett 2, McCombie, Mongelluzzo 2.
Umpires: Seth Matthews (plate); Don Bachota (first base); Brent Dorofey (third base).
Time of game: 2:34.
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