O-Tigers take two from ValleyCats on Saturday

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August 3, 2009

Staff Report The Daily Star Mon Aug 03, 2009, 04:00 AM EDT

Luis Palacios hit a two-run homer in the ninth inning of the first game and Eric Roof contributed a grand slam in the second game to lead the Oneonta Tigers to a New York-Penn League sweep Saturday at Tri-City.

Palacios' homer _ his first of the season _ capped a three-run ninth inning as Oneonta won the first game, 5-2. Roof's grand slam _ his second of the season _ highlighted a five-run third inning in the Tigers' 8-1 victory in the second game.

Oneonta (25-15) took a four-game lead over second-place Lowell in the Stedler Division standings.

In the first game, Michael Rockett's third homer this season, a shot to left with one out in the sixth inning, tied the score at 1 in the scheduled seven-inning game.

The Tigers took a 2-1 lead in the eighth, when Palacios singled to left to lead off, went to second on a sacrifice by Carmelo Jaime and scored on a throwing error by third baseman Jhonny Medrano that allowed Rawley Bishop to reach base with two outs.

Tri-City tied it in the bottom of the inning.

Jacob Goebbert singled to center off Kenny Faulk to start the ValleyCats' at-bats.

After an out, Erik Castro reached on a fielding error by left fielder Rockett as pinch-runner Ben Orloff scored the tying run.

Oneonta's ninth started when another Medrano throwing error allowed Wade Gaynor to reach second. Gaynor went to third on a wild pitch and scored on Keith Hernandez's single to right. Palacios followed with his homer to left off losing pitcher James MacDonald.

Faulk pitched a scoreless ninth to improve to 1-1.

Rockett went 4-for-4 in the second game to lead a 13-hit attack and raise his batting average to .346.

John Murrian's RBI single to left scored Rockett with the game's first run in the first inning. It stayed that way until the third, when Rockett and Rawley Bishop led off with singles to left.

Losing pitcher Douglas Arguello's wild pitch moved the runners up a base before Murrian walked to load the bases. Gaynor then singled off reliever Max Fearnow to score Rockett to make it 2-0.

Roof then hit his grand slam to right-center to make it 6-0.

Bishop's RBI double in the fourth increased Oneonta's lead to 7-0 and Jamie Johnson's RBI double in the sixth gave the Tigers an 8-0 lead.

Bishop had three hits and Roof finished with two.

Winning pitcher Mike LaLuna (2-3) allowed two hits over five scoreless innings.

He struck out four and walked four. Michael Torrealba threw the final two innings, allowing one run on two hits.

O-Tigers 5, Valleycats 2

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