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Marauders lose in baseball playoffs

SPRINGVILLE — The Dunkirk Marauders high school baseball team lost to Springville in a Class B-1 pre-quarterfinal Friday, 11-6, ending its season.

Springville jumped on Dunkirk early, scoring six runs in the first inning. Jared Glowniak came in with one out in the first, pitched the rest of the way for Dunkirk and “settled everything down,” according to Dunkirk coach Frank Jagoda.

Though Dunkirk got to within two runs, the early deficit proved too much to overcome — barely.

In the fifth inning, with the score 7-5, “Jazzy (Rivera) hit a ball to the gap where the outfielders collided, but one of them caught the ball. It would have been a big hit for us because it would have scored two and tied the game,” Jagoda said. “The collision was so great they were transported by ambulance, one with a dislocated shoulder, the other with possible rib injuries.

“After the delay, in the bottom of the fifth, we booted a couple balls early in the inning and they capitalized with a few base hits and a few runs to up their lead to 11-5,” Jagoda continued. “We scored one in the sixth.”

Two seniors, Rivera and Danny Williams, had two hits for Dunkirk. Rivera singled twice and Williams had a single and a double. Phillip Messina also had two hits, Alex Ahlstrom had a triple and Peyton Ahlstrom and Lucas Porpiglia also had hits.

“We put the ball in play all day, we forced them to make mistakes,” Jagoda said. “We were aggressive on the basepaths all day. We played hard the entire game, we just got off to a bad start.”

Though Dunkirk finished the season with a disappointing 5-15 record, Jagoda thinks the future “could be bright.”

“Despite the record, we had a lot of young guys that played a lot of important positions and got a lot of good at bats all season,” Jagoda said. “I’m losing three seniors. (Zach) Romanik and Williams are two of the nicest kids you’ll ever want to meet. Jazzy Rivera played for us a couple years and put his heart and soul into the season and became a team leader,” the coach concluded.

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