Scrappers win fourth straight to end season

Staff report

JAMESTOWN, N.Y.

John Barr hit a triple to lead off the game, the Mahoning Valley Scrappers scored five runs in the first inning and went on to defeat the Jamestown Jammers, 8-5, in a New York-Penn League baseball game on Sunday afternoon.

The victory was the fourth straight for Mahoning Valley (41-34) and completed a three-game season-ending sweep of Jamestown.

The Scrappers finished in third place in the Pinckney Division, four games behind the Auburn Doubledays.

On Sunday, Barr also doubled, while KC Serna hit three singles. Jerrud Sabourin doubled twice and drove in two runs, while Francisco Lindor and Evan Frazar both singled twice.

Brian McConkey and Kentrell Dewitt led Jamestown with two hits each, including a double apiece. Yefri Perez singled two times.

In the Scrappers’ first, Barr’s triple was led by Lindor’s RBI groundout.

Jake Lowery walked and advanced to second on a passed ball. After Alex Lavisky struck out looking, Todd Hankins and Serna hit back-to-back singles. Hankins’ hit scored Lowery.

Sabourin then doubled home both Hankins and Serna, and he scored on Frazar’s single.

Jamestown got back in the game by scoring four unearned runs in the fourth inning of winning pitcher Tony Dischler (1-2), but the Scrappers scored single runs in the sixth, seventh and eighth to pull away.

Barr’s double scored Cody Elliott, who had reached on a fielder’s choice, in the sixth.

In the seventh, Serna singled and scored on Sabourin’s double, and in the eighth, Lindor singled and eventually scored on a wild pitch.

Enosil Tejeda pitched the ninth for his 12th save.