Knoch rallies to claim section title
Dom Bucko threw plenty of strikes with his arm Monday night at Kelly Automotive Park.
He produced a pretty good one with his bat, too.
The Knoch senior right-hander took over on the mound for Brandon Kowalski with two outs, two on in the top of the fifth, his team trailing Freeport, 2-0. He proceeded to throw 18 of his 22 pitches for strikes the rest of the way as Knoch rallied for a 6-2 victory and the Section 1-4A baseball championship on Senior Night.
Bucko also had the game-winning hit with a two-run homer to right during a five-run fifth inning.
“No, it can't get much better than this,” Bucko agreed.
“It's nice to have somebody like that late in games, somebody you know is just gonna pound the zone when he takes the mound,” Knoch coach Sean O'Donnell said.
Faulty defense let down the Yellowjackets (11-6, 8-5), who can get to the WPIAL playoffs with a win at Derry Area today. It looked like they were getting ready to punch that ticket Monday.
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