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Chiefs baseball picks up win over Springfield Kameron Towle Sports Bodin Green Mountain's Josh Bodin tracking down a fly ball in right field on Saturday. Kameron Towle SPRINGFIELD- Green Mountain used a five-run first inning and productive pitching from freshman Rex Hill and eighth grader Dylan McCarthy to cruise to victory over the Cosmos on Saturday evening, winning 12-2 in six innings. In the top of the first, Springfield was able to get two baserunners on, but the Chiefs were able to gun down Levi Perham trying to score from third, and Rex Hill got a strikeout to get out of an early jam. Leaving runners stranded would be a theme for the Cosmos on Saturday. In the bottom-half, Green Mountain put up five runs without getting a hit. With the bases loaded by walked-batters, two runs were walked in, a hit-by-pitch knocked in another, and a passed-ball scored the fourth, before the fifth was scored on a Ty Merrill sac-fly that knocked in Josh Bodin. Springfield’s Levi Perham was put in to pitch with the bases juiced and two outs and only allowed the one run on the sac-fly before getting a strikeout to retire the Chiefs. On the hot start Saturday, Chiefs head coach, Matt McCarthy, said, “We battled through… first inning, we scored five runs on good plate discipline. We were trying to be aggressive on the base paths today… to try to set things up for ourselves… set things up for our hitters. And a couple guys came up in big spots and did good things.” In the top of the second, Cosmos’ Collin Pinney scored on a passed ball after getting on with a walk to score the first Springfield run. But, they would once again leave two runners stranded. In the bottom of the fourth, Green Mountain’s Sawyer Pippen came through with a big 2-RBI single down the right field line. The Chiefs would plate another on a wild pitch to gain the led, 8-1, after four innings of play. Perham scored in the top of the fifth for the Cosmos on an overthrow by the Chiefs, to gain their second run of the evening. Green Mountain plated two more in the bottom-half of the fifth, as Merrill scored on an errant throw and Hill knocked in Skylar Klezos with a base-knock. In the top-half of the sixth frame, Springfield would once more leave runners stranded, this time with the bases loaded. In the bottom-half, the Chiefs put two more on the board with two outs, ending the game with the ten-run rule. Jacob Thomas had an RBI single before the game fittingly ended with a walk with the bases juiced. For the Chiefs, McCarthy looked to his pitching and playing mistake-free baseball as the reason for his team’s success on Saturday, saying, “Very happy with our pitching… we gave up one hit the whole game. Rex Hill is a freshman and Dylan McCarthy is an eighth grader. We are fairly young. The last few games we’ve kind of been error-ridden and today we only had one error… so I was pretty happy about that with our team.”
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