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Game Recap: Downingtown East at Downingtown West

April 24, 2014

By Jacob Gill
Philadelphia Region Director of Scouting

D'town West 6, D'town East 5 (8 inn)

Downingtown West just wouldn't let their crosstown rivals run away and hide in the Ches-Mont National, coughing up an early lead and then clawing their way back for the dramatic victory. The six runs scored by the Whippets doubled the most runs given up in a single game all season by the Cougars, who had thrown eight shutouts in twelve games this spring.

4A #16 East entered the game with a 2.5 game lead in the division and was one out away from the win in this one before a 2-out single from 2015 SS Ken Jarema knotted the score in the bottom of the seventh.  Pinch-hitter Ryan Rumer (Binghamton) nearly untied it in the top of the eighth, lining a ball off the top of the fence in center field, but he was stranded on third base two batters later. The next batter of the game turned out to be the last, as West's clean-up hitter Max Edgin (PSU Berks) swatted a home run to center field that prompted delirium from the home dugout.

2014 Calvin Sparhawk gave West the early lead with a 3-run HR of his own in the bottom of the second. East answered right back with its own 3-spot, on a bloop RBI double from 2014 OF Ryan Taylor and 2-RBI single from 2015 SS Nick Amicon. Taylor and Amicon each drove in a run two innings later to give East the lead. West got one back on a home run from 2015 OF Jason Borosky in the bottom of the fifth, which set up Jerema's and Edgin's heroics.

Taylor (2-4, 2B, 2 RBI) and Amicon (2-4, 3B, 3 RBI) led East offensively, while Sparhawk (2-3, HR, 3 RBI) and Edgin (2-4, 2B, HR, RBI) paced West.

Cougars' Appalachian State-bound RHP Eric Sigovich (6 IP, 5 H, 3 BB, 8 K) and Whippets' Kutztown-bound RHP Sean Esch (8 IP, 8 H, 0 BB, 8 K)) both showed solid stuff while pitching through chilly conditions and a blustery wind blowing out toward left and left-center.

  • See the Pennsylvania Scout Blog for measureables and scouting notes on Jarema, Amicon, and other underclass position players 


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