NIAGARA FALLS \u2014 After their game against the Auburn Doubledays on Independence Day was suspended, the Geneva Red Wings were still looking to continue their winning ways on Sunday in a doubleheader against the Niagara Falls Americans.<\/p>\n
The Red Wings claimed a third consecutive victory by defeating the Americans 6-4 in seven innings in the first game of the twinbill on Sunday afternoon in Niagara Falls.<\/p>\n
During the second game of the doubleheader, Geneva extended their winning streak to four straight wins by beating Niagara Falls 10-0 in six innings.<\/p>\n
The win allowed the Red Wings to continue their great momentum of late while the Americans’ recent struggles continue.<\/p>\n
1ST GAME<\/p>\n
Max Lipton earned the win in relief for Geneva (10-13) with two innings of work. Lipton struck out three batters in those two innings.<\/p>\n
Mitchell Canuel suffered the loss for Niagara Falls (9-17) in a complete game outing.<\/p>\n
Center fielder Dylan Briggs went 3-for-4 at the plate for the Red Wings while teammate CJ Orrego collected two hits and drove in two runs.<\/p>\n
Orrego\u2019s two-run triple in the top of the third inning gave Geneva a 5-0 lead at the time.<\/p>\n
Tyler Arno started the game on the mound for the Red Wings. The Geneva High School graduate threw 3.1 innings and struck out seven batters.<\/p>\n
2ND GAME<\/p>\n
Waterloo High School graduate\u00a0Casey Burcroff picked up the win in relief for the Red Wings after throwing two innings of perfect baseball.<\/p>\n
Burcroff and teammate\u00a0Nolan Hudson combined for a five-inning no-hitter as the two combined for six total strikeouts recorded.<\/p>\n
After Hudson, who punched out four batters, tossed three innings of scoreless baseball, Burcroff finished the shutout performance.<\/p>\n
Designated hitter Seiji Tamura went 2-for-2 with four runs batted in for Geneva at the plate.<\/p>\n
Jaxsyn Moritz suffered the loss for the Americans after throwing two innings.<\/p>\n
Geneva will return to action on Monday for a home doubleheader starting at 4 p.m. against the Olean Oilers at McDonough Park.<\/p>\n
In other PGCBL action from Sunday:<\/p>\n
Olean 1, Newark 0, 1st game, suspended<\/p>\n
Olean at Newark, 2nd game, postponed<\/p>\n
NEWARK\u00a0\u2014 The Newark Pilots (4-17) were supposed to play a doubleheader against the Olean Oilers (10-14) on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n
But, the first game of the doubleheader was suspended in the third inning while Olean had a 1-0 lead at the time.<\/p>\n
The second game was postponed as the Pilots will return to action on Tuesday when they travel to play the Jamestown Tarp Skunks at 6:30 p.m. at\u00a0Diethrick Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NIAGARA FALLS \u2014 After their game against the Auburn Doubledays on Independence Day was suspended, the Geneva Red…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[15959,32865,32863,33298,32869,45358,48801,65,40419,32871,32868,32872,33299,32870,33301,11028,2521,11972,40420,4780,48798,48799,48800,40418,40417,48797,33305,33302],"class_list":["post-98421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-geneva","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-events","tag-baseball-finals","tag-baseball-games","tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","tag-champion-seasons-in-major-league-baseball","tag-doubleheader-baseball","tag-geneva","tag-geneva-red-wings","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","tag-major-league-baseball-teams","tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-newark","tag-newark-pilots","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-falls-americans","tag-olean","tag-olean-oilers","tag-perfect-game-collegiate-baseball-league","tag-pgcbl","tag-pgcbl-roundup","tag-seasons-in-american-sport","tag-world-series"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}