Tri-County Baseball · Western Massachusetts · Est. 1929
Athletic Club
Spartans
Turners Falls Rallies from Four Down to Down DOC Spartans, 11–4
Wagner earns the complete-game win; a third-inning TFAC surge wipes out a fast DOC lead, and 15 hits finish the job for the home club
DOC Spartans did everything right in the first inning on Thursday at Hopkins Academy — scoring four times before Turners Falls Athletic Club had a chance to blink — and for a moment it looked like they might run away with it. They didn't. Turners Falls chipped away, then erupted, rallying from four runs down to claim an 11–4 final and hand the Spartans a defeat that stung as much for how it started as for how it ended.
The Spartans' first-inning burst was as complete as it was sudden. Alexis Franco singled to score one, Jovanni Merced walked to score another, and then P. Wagner induced Benjamin Rodriguez Vega into a fielder's choice that scored two more runs — four on the board before TFAC threw a competitive pitch. Andrew Ciaglo added to the deficit in the second with an RBI single that scored Scanlon-Dean, pushing the Spartans' advantage to what looked like a comfortable margin.
Turners Falls answered in the third. Two singles started a rally that pulled the AC within striking distance, and when Scanlon-Dean singled to tie the game at four, Hopkins Academy changed completely. One inning later, Wagner — the same player who had grounded into the fielder's choice that scored two DOC runs — drove in the go-ahead run with a single in the fourth to give Turners Falls the lead for good. From there, the AC never looked back, piling up 15 hits on the day and four stolen bases, while turning two double plays to keep DOC's baserunners in check.
Wagner earned the complete-game win, going all seven innings for Turners Falls and holding DOC to five hits and two runs over the final six frames while striking out four and walking three. Ciaglo led the AC with three hits in five at bats, while Zach Kelly, Scanlon-Dean, and C. Bullens each added multiple hits in a balanced offensive attack. On the losing side, Merced took the loss after going five innings, allowing six runs — three earned — on 11 hits with seven strikeouts. Rodriguez Vega went 1-for-3 with two RBI, and Joshua Gutierrez led DOC with two hits. The Spartans host Turners Falls again on Saturday, a quick chance for revenge on their own turf.
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