WILLIAMSPORT, PA – Cairn Baseball faced off with Penn College at Historic Bowman Field, home of the Major League Baseball Little League Classic, splitting with the Wildcats, winning 6-4 in game one and dropping game two, 13-5.
 
GAME ONE
Penn College (7-11 / 0-3 UNITED EAST VOLT DIVISION) was first to score, putting up two runs by way of two hits and an error in the bottom of the second. In the third, sophomore second baseman Donald Kennedy (Cincinnati, OH / Bethel-Tate) got things started with a leadoff single. Freshman shortstop Nathan Schurga (Wilmington, DE / Conrad Schools of Science) worked a walk. They would advance to scoring position on a failed pickoff attempt, Kennedy being scored on a sacrifice fly by classmate Zach Bauers (Cooper City, FL / Cooper City). The Wildcats opted to intentionally walk junior first baseman Tyler Warr (Langhorne, PA / Neshaminy) to bring up junior outfielder Tyler Harris (Oxford, PA / Oxford Area) who hit a two-run single to take the lead back, 3-2.
 
The Wildcats tied up the score in the bottom half and took a 4-3 lead in the fourth. Cairn (8-10 / 3-3 UNITED EAST SKYE DIVISION) answered late, bringing across three runs in the sixth inning as freshman center fielder Zachary Johnson (Hawaii Kai, HI / TCS Post Grad), Bauers, and Warr each drove in a run on three-straight singles.
 
Redshirt junior righty Connor Ferguson (Laguna Niguel, CA / Capistrano Valley Christian School) got the start, going 3.1 innings with three strikeouts and a single earned run, getting the no decision. Sophomore right hander Greg Jessup (Tyler, TX / McKinney Christian Academy) picked up the win with 3.2 scoreless innings.
 
GAME TWO
Game two would carry a much different tone as the Wildcats jumped out to a 9-1 lead through the first two innings, adding two more each in the fourth and fifth. The Highlanders put up four runs in the fifth, scoring on a Warr walk, Harris groundout, and an RBI single from fifth year third baseman Sam Spadea (Yardley, PA / Pennsbury).
 
Spadea and Schurga went 2-3 in game two with a run scored each, Spadea adding 2 RBI. Senior reliever Ethan Fineman (Langhorne, PA / Neshaminy) pitched an inning in relief with a strikeout and fifth year reliever Harrison Green (Jackson, MS / Park Place Christian Academy) two thirds of an inning, both scoreless.
 
The Highlanders prepare to make the journey to Chambersburg on Friday to take on the Phoenix of Wilson College before hosting the Skye Division rival for two games on Saturday.