The Oneonta Tigers split a New York-Penn League doubleheader at the State College Spikes on Thursday and fell a full game behind the Lowell Spinners for first place in the Stedler Division.
Wade Gaynor and Matthew Mansilla homered in Thursday's opener as Oneonta cruised to a 10-1 victory. The Spikes responded with six runs in the second game en route to a 10-2 win.
The Tigers moved to 28-23 and remained in second place in the Stedler. Lowell beat host Jamestown, 5-1, to improve to 30-23.
Thursday's doubleheader between the O-Tigers and Spikes (28-26) resulted from a rainout Wednesday. Although Oneonta was idle, it lost possession of first place in the Stedler for the first time this summer as Lowell took a half-game lead with a doubleheader sweep _ 3-1 and 1-0 _ at Jamestown on Wednesday.
Carmelo Jaime started the scoring Thursday with an RBI groundout to shortstop that scored Gaynor for a 1-0 lead in the second inning.
David Rubinstein homered to right field off winning pitcher Luis Sanz to start the bottom of the second, but the Tigers scored at least one run in each of the next five innings. Sanz struck out four, walked two and allowed one earned run on seven hits in a seven-inning complete-game victory to improve to 4-2 this season.
Michael Rockett finished 3-for-4 with two runs and a double for Oneonta, which got two hits apiece from Gaynor, Mansilla and Christopher Sedon.
Spikes reliever Brandon Holden took over for losing pitcher Nelson Pereira at the start of the fourth inning with State College trailing, 3-1. Holden's first batter, Mansilla, drove a pitch over the left-field wall for his first home run of the season, sparking a three-run inning. Rawley Bishop capped the scoring in the fourth with a two-run single to right.
Gaynor followed Mansilla's lead in the seventh, leading off with a homer _ his second this summer _ to left after the Spikes brought in Owen Brolsma to relieve Nathan Baker.
Bishop also contributed a sacrifice fly in the sixth. He finished with three RBIs in the opener and later drove in his 36th run of the season in the second game.
Jaime went 2-for-3 with an RBI to pace Oneonta in the second game, which also went seven innings. Oneonta starter Cory Hamilton (3-4) failed to get out of the first inning. He allowed six runs _ three earned _ on four hits and a walk before exiting with one out in the first.
The Tigers start a three-game set at the Brooklyn Cyclones tonight. The Cyclones lead the McNamara Division at 34-20.
The NY-Penn All-Star break follows Monday and Tuesday.
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Hrnandz dh3000Rubnstein rf2201
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Newman2ª22231
Torrealba 1¤00031
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{"Sports agate body text"/}Erickson 441104
Paulino W, 1-3321112
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{"Sports agate MLB teams"/}Thursday's First Game
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Sanz W, 4-2771114
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Brolsma121111
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