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Bissell hit caps rally

Ken Bissell drove home Fred Federicci and Bill Daugherty with a single with two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning to cap a three-run rally as Natrona Heights nipped Mars II 4-3 in Eagle County League action Friday night.

The rally made a winner out of SeanO'Donnell, who struck out six and didn't issue a walk in seven innings of work for Natrona Heights (8-3).

Josh Rape picked up the loss for Mars II (6-5).

Elsewhere:

• Saxonburg collected six doubles and Curt Schnur picked up a save as Saxonburg edged Wexford 7-5 to improve its record to 12-1.

• Chris Kelly and Mike Balash combined for a two-hit shutout as Mars I rolled to a 10-0 win over Evans City.

Kelly went six innings, striking out 10. Balash pitched a perfect seventh inning, fanning two.

• Cranberry scored 10 runs in the second inning and pounded out 16 hits in routing Ingomar 16-1.

Mars II 001 020 0—3 7 1Natrona Heights 100 000 3—4 5 1Two outs when winning run scoredJoshRape and Scheutz; Sean O'Donnell and Fred Federicci.

W: O'Donnell (6 K, 0 BB).

L: Rape (2 K, 0 BB).

Mars II (6-5): Scheutz 2-2B

Natrona Heights (8-3): Ken Bissell 1B 2-RBI

Saxonburg 110 100 4—7 9 1Wexford 000 010 4—5 8 1Zach Toth, Curt Schnur (7) and Matt DeSantis; Nick Kissel, Dan Pierre (7, 0 K, 3 BB).

W: Toth (2 K, 3 BB).

L: Kissel (5 K, 1 BB).

SV: Schnur (1 K, 0 BB).

Saxonburg (12-1): Brendan Malone 2B 1B RBI, Sandy Sanderson 2B RBI, Dan Pickard 2B RBI, Steve Hall 2B 1B RBI, DeSantis 2B, Aaron Ordy 2B

Wexford: Ryan Unger 2B 1B, Brian Slavicek 2B 2-1B RBI

Evans City 000 000 0—0 2 4Mars I 222 310 x—10 12 0Scott Cukovich, Smith (4, 0 K, 4 BB) and Mike Kaska; Chris Kelly, Mike Balash (7, 2 K, 0 BB) and Dan DeMarco.

W: Kelly (10 K, 1 BB).

L: Cukovich (2 K, 1 BB).

Mars I (9-2): Matt Colella 3B HR 2-RBI, Ryan Salazar 2-2B RBI

Cranberry 0(10)0 24x x—16 16 1Ingomar 010 00x x—1 5 3Adam Martin and Hugh Mulvey; Chimenti and Morris.

W: Martin (3 K, 1 BB).

L: Chimenti (4 K, 6 BB).

Cranberry (7-4): Hugh Mulvey 1B 2B; Justin Papania 2-1B 2B 2-RBI, Dave Knechtel 2B HR 4-RBI, Bill Clinefelter 2-1B 2-RBI, Ben Follett 2B 2-RBI, Brendan Steiner 2-1B 2-RBI, Chris Dubensky 2-1B 2-RBI

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