Wildcats Dumped 15-4 by State College

MILL HALL – The Central Mountain baseball team has a new streak going, but this time it is not wins, it is losses.

After winning six in a row and moving to 8-2 at the midway point of the season, the Wildcats have gone into a two game dive, the most recent loss a 15-4 five inning waxing administered by State College on Monday.

The game was a ballgame into the second inning, Central Mountain with a 3-0 lead after one. But once Wildcat starter (and previously unbeaten) Toner Corl had a line drive single carom off his shin, Corl and the team came undone.

State proceeded to put up five runs and drive Corl from the mound in the second; as a point of reference, the Wildcat sophomore had surrendered but two runs total in three previous complete game starts.

State would go on to pepper four Central Mountain pitchers for 15 hits and 15 runs, including an 8-spot in the top of the fifth to run the score to 15-4. When Central Mountain failed to score in the bottom of the inning, the game ended on the 10-run rule.

Two State pitchers, Oliver Dailey and Keith LeBaron, held Central Mountain to a season-low two hits, an RBI double from Kenny Heverly in the first and a swinging-bunt single from Clayton Butler in the third.

In terms of seeding for the upcoming District 6 playoffs, the loss was a costly one. State moves to 10-3 with the win and the Wildcats, after an upset 4-3 loss to Penns Valley last Friday, fall to 8-4.

Next up for Central Mountain is a trip to Altoona Tuesday and a home game with St. Marys on Friday.