Tuesday, June 08, 2010
Mohawks Top Watertown 9-1

The Mohawk’s (1-1) stellar pitching carried over from the first game of the season. Tuesday night they found their bats as well en route to a 9-1 win against the Watertown Wizards (2-1).

Matt Conway (Wake Forest) went 3-4 with a homerun and a double while driving in four runs. Nine different Mohawks got hits, including eight of the nine starters. Amsterdam jumped on Watertown starter Ryan Poplawski (Siena) early and kept the pressure on all game.

Mel Rojas Jr. (Wabash Valley CC) led off the game with a walk just six hours after he went 84th overall in the MLB First Year Player Draft, Four of the next five batters singled to put a three spot on the board. Poplawski settled in to strike out the side in the first and struck out seven batters in the first three innings, but the best of the Mohawks offense was yet to come.

Jon Schwind (Marist) singled to lead off the fifth, and Conway ripped a Poplawski pitch out of the park in left. Schwind went 3-5 batting in front of Conway.
A four-run rally in the top half of the ninth broke the ballgame open. Dan Zlotnick (Marist) and Luke Maile (Kentucky) both doubled in that outburst as Amsterdam batted around to put the Wizards away.

As great as the bats were, the pitching was even more impressive. Sam Kidd (Kentucky) started and gave up a solo homerun in the first. After that he posted two multi-strikeout innings.

Kidd struck out the last batter he faced in the 4th to strand two Watertown runners. Those runners were the last the Wizards would have until a two-out walk in the bottom of the ninth. The Wizards had fewer base runners (7) than the Mohawks scored runs.

Chris Bielak (Marist) retired all six batters he faced, and Abram Williams (Radford) finished the night by retiring nine of the last 10 Wizards batters.

Amsterdam returns home for a three game home stand starting with a 7:05 start tonight at Shuttleworth. The Mohawks will try to exact revenge from Glens Falls for their opening night loss.

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