Eggleston No Hitter Leads Herkimer Baseball To 4 Game Series Sweep

Herkimer baseball traveled to Plattsburg on Tuesday to start a 4 game series with Clinton CC.  Herkimer road the hot bat of Lee Foxton in game one as Herkimer would take the opening game 15-2.  Foxton went 3-4 with 4 runs batted in with 2 doubles and hit his 3^rd homerun of the season.  Al Ferenti and Brett Hauber added 3-4 performances at the plate as well. 

Kris Barone pitched his 5^th consecutive complete game in game two as Herkimer won 6-0.  Barone went all 7 innings allowing only 1 walk and 2 hits while striking out 12 batters.  Barone improves to 4-2 with a 2.50 ERA with 48 strikeouts in 36 innings on the season.  Foxton added a 2-4 game with another double on the day.

Clinton then traveled to Herkimer on Thursday to finish the 4 game series.  Herkimer scored 5 runs in the first keyed by a bases loaded double by Jeff Sergott that cleared the bases.  Sergott would go 3-3 with 6 runs batted in on that key double and a 4^th inning homerun as Herkimer took game three 16-0.  Joe Perrotta improved to 5-1,  pitching all 5 innings allowing 5 hits and 4 walks while striking out 5.  Brandon Jones hit his 7^th homerun of the season, 1 homerun short of the single season record of 8 set by Drew Farley in 2007.

Andy Eggleston finished off Clinton with a no-hitter in game four as Herkimer completed the series sweep with a 10-0 victory.  Eggleston allowed 1 walk and hit one batter but kept the hits off the board and recorded 9 strikeouts over 6 innings of work.  Amar Lewis went 3-4 with 3 doubles in the game. 

Game 1: Herkimer 15, Clinton 2  

HCCC    001 (10)4X X    15  18 0

CCC      000     02X X      2  4  3 

W- Tyrrell (4-1)  L- Burris

2B- HCCC, Jones, Foxton 2, Barone, Ferenti

HR- HCCC, Foxton

Game 2: Herkimer 6, Clinton 0

HCCC       006 000 0    6  10  0

CCC         000 000 0    0   2  0

W- Barone (4-2)  L-Brown

2B- HCCC Lewis, Foxton, Branch 

Game 3: Herkimer 16, Clinton 0  

CCC        000  000 0   0   5  2

HCCC      526 3XX X  16 13 0

W- Perrotta (5-1)  L- Leffle

2B- HCCC,  Jones 2, Lewis, Ferenti, Sergott

3B- HCCC,  Foxton, Potter

HR- HCCC, Jones, Sergott

Game 4: Herkimer 10, Clinton 0

CCC         000 000 X   0  0  1

HCCC       110 323 X  10 9  0

W- Eggleston (3-3)  L- Fleury

2B- Lewis 3, Shepardson

3B- Jones

Herkimer  23-11  (19-5 in Region 3 and 14-4 in Mountain Valley Conference)

NEXT GAME: 

Saturday Home vs Adirondack CC 1:00 pm start