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LR, Lilly both get playoff openers

Locker Room, which went undefeated in the regular season, had to work extra in its first game of the Altoona Greater City Baseball League playoffs on Sunday at Vets Field.

Ryan Pollicino’s walk-off one-out single to left field drove in Brett Hileman with the winning run in the bottom of the ninth inning to lift Locker Room over BMG Construction, 6-5, to take the opening game of their best-of-three semifinal series.

Hileman had begun the inning with a walk and was sacrificed to second by Kevin Scholly.

Game 2 is at 8 p.m. tonight at Vets.

Pollicino had two hits and two RBIs, and Hileman struck out seven in 22/3 innings of relief. Ray Watt, who went the distance for BMG, collected two hits.

SCORE BY INNINGS

BMG Construction 101 010 200–5 4 2

Locker Room 200 300 001–6 5 2

2B–Patterson (BMG), Pollicino, Stiffler (LR). Multiple hits–Watt 2 (BMG); Pollicino 2 (LR). RBI–Watt, Patterson (BMG); Pollicino 2, Scholly, Bret. Hileman, Martinez, B. Weibley (LR). WP–Bret. Hileman. LP–Watt. SO–Bren. Hileman 2, Kyle 3, Bret. Hileman 7 (LR); Watt 7 (BMG). BB–Bren. Hileman 2, Kyle 1, Bret. Hileman 1 (LR); Watt 11 (BMG).

Series: Locker Room leads 1-0

Lilly Conrad 6

Blair County Oil 5

Lilly Conrad Chiropractic American Legion held a 6-2 edge heading to the seventh inning and held on for a win in the first game of its best-of-three semifinal series with Blair County Oil at Vets Field.

Game 2 is set for 6 p.m. today at Vets.

Blair County Oil pushed across three runs in the top of the seventh inning and had runners on first and second with two outs. But Landon Sinclair, in relief of winning pitcher P.J. Holberg, got a strikeout to end the game.

Brent Davison homered for Lilly, and Ryan Ickes drove in two runs. Sean Steffy had two hits for Blair County Oil, and Josh Wyandt knocked in a pair of runs.

SCORE BY INNINGS

Blair County Oil 100 010 3–5 8 2

Lilly 040 011 X–6 7 3

2B–Kawtoski (BCO); Wendell, L. McCoy (L). HR–Davison (L). Multiple hits–Steffy 2 (BCO). RBI–Wyandt 2, Massaro, Helsel, Kawtoski (BCO); R. Ickes 2, C.J. McCoy, Davison, Droz, Gallaher (L). WP–Holberg. LP–Conrad. SO–Holberg 2, Sinclair 1 (L); Conrad 3 (BCO). BB–Conrad 4 (BCO).

Series: Lilly Conrad leads 1-0.

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