Titusville pickles Oil City to win

6/25/2023

Pickleball might be the fastest growing athletic activity in the nation right now, and that is good, but getting in a pickle in baseball is still a bad thing. A heads up play by Titusville's catcher Coleman Knapp caught Oil City's Casey Rybak snoozing and suddenly the cat and mouse game between third and home was on. The cat won.

Oil City's chance to take early momentum was snuffed out by an alert catcher and an infield that knew how to handle a run-down.

Coach Keith Klinger said it was one helluva a baseball game.

Tituvelle won 5-4

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Titusville chipped away. They got one in the first when Aaron Burrows reached first on an Oil City error and then made it around the bases scoring on a Knapp base hit . They scored again in the third after Brody Sellen singled and got into scoring position for Burrows to drive him home.

Oil City finally got across home plate in the fifth when Gavin Keith scored. Titusville answered in the bottom half of the inning when Sellen and Burrows both scored again going up 4-1.

Oil City made it interesting with a three run sixth-inning to tie.

Again Titusville answered when lead-off batter Kaden Currier walked and ended up eventually making around the bases. Brett Schmidt closed down Oil City in the top of the seventh with a couple strikeouts.