Jammers Rally To Win Game 3, PGCBL Title

AMSTERDAM — The Jamestown Jammers are the Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League champions.

Chase Keng saw to that.

Keng drilled a three-run home run in the bottom of the seventh inning to rally Jamestown to an 8-6 come-from-behind victory over Amsterdam in the third-and-deciding game at Shuttleworth Field on Wednesday night.

“We talked all season about being champions, on and off the field, and in the community,” Jammers manager Anthony Barone said. “We had to be one and come together, and we did.”

Especially when they needed it most.

Trailing 3-0 after the second inning, 5-3 after three, and 6-4 after four, Jamestown held the Mohawks scoreless the rest of the way and then relied on a huge hit from Keng in the seventh to give it the lead it never relinquished.

Chris Rubottom led off the seventh with a walk, Ben Migliore did the same and, two outs later, Keng stepped to the plate. After swinging and missing on the first pitch he saw, he belted a three-run home run off reliever Styler Stafflinger to give the Jammers the lead for the first time in the game.

Jamestown added a run in the eighth on Dailin Lee’s RBI double, and then Ryan Boyer closed it out over the final 2 1/3 innings. He and JJ Dunn allowed three hits and one walk over the final four frames.

Lee finished with three hits, Alex O’Donnell had two and Sterling Hayes drove in three runs and Ben Livorsi had one RBI.

“We really won this as a team,” Barone said. “I’m really proud of them.”

Especially since the squad spent the entire postseason on the road.

“I told the guys when we heard the news about being on the road for the playoffs that it would be a really neat story for years to come if we could pull it off,” Barone said.

He added: “This is the toughest group I’ve been around. They just banded together.”

Michael Ludowig, Joe Genord and Justin Foscue all belted home runs for Amsterdam. Ludowig and Elvis Peralta finished with two hits. Stafflinger took the loss.

“All credit goes to Amsterdam,” Barone said. “It was a really good series between two good teams. People saw one of the best college baseball series they could see the last three days.”

Mohawks coach Doug O’Brey agreed.

“I’ve got a lot of respect for Coach Barone and the program he’s put together. Both teams played well and every game was a battle,” he said.