By Greg Williams
PA Director of Scouting

Consolation and Semifinal action in the 2014 Curve Classic took place yesterday with four games being played at Peoples Natural Gas Field, home of the Pittsburgh Pirates AA Eastern League Affiliate Altoona Curve. While the event is competitive it also offers high school players an unique opportunity, some for the first times in their lives, to play in a professional stadium. The three day event culminates today with the championship game being played at 1:00pm. 

   

                      Day Two highlights

Consolation #1 - Huntington 10,  Bishop Guilfoyle 3  

Huntington trailed 3-2 following the 5th inning but rallied with eight runs in the 6th inning on just four hits to win the first consolation game of the day going away. '14 1B Rhett Stetchock who had one of two bunt singles in the big inning showed that he could play small ball after hitting a solo home run to right field in his first at bat. '14 RHP Nate Gearhart came on to pitch in the 5th inning and picked up the win with six strikeouts in 2.2 innings of work.

Quarterfinal #2 - Latrobe 4,  Clearfield 1

'14 1B Seth Holler doubled with two outs and nobody on in the bottom of the 1st inning to get the Latrobe offense started. Brett Vallorani (3-for-3, 2B) drove Holler in with a single and later scored on a walk to stake the Wildcats to a 2-0 lead. Clearfield scored a run in the top of the 2nd inning to cut the lead in half, bu Latrobe answered with two runs in the 4th inning to account for the final score.

semifinal #1 - Central 16,  Bishop Carroll 3

The third game of the day was over before it Bishop Carroll had an opportunity to hit. Central sent 14 hitters to the plate and scored nine runs in the top of the 1st inning. The offensive explosion continued with 6 additional runs in the next two innings before starters went to the bench for the final two innings.

'14 SS Austin Cunningham went 3-for-3 with two runs scored and four RBI to lead the Dragons.

Semifinal #2 - Altoona 3,  Hollidaysburg 6

The final game of the day was a backyard rivalry between two teams that are very familiar with one another. Hollidaysburg used a five run rally in the bottom of the 5th inning to reverse a 3-1 defecit to advance to today's title game. 

                        tourney tidbits

Additional scouting notes and measureable information on standout players during the course of the tournament is available in the Pennsylvania Scout Blog.