Goosney leads Shamrocks to double-header wins over Vikings in final

The Trapper John’s Shamrocks rode the durable right arm of Scott Goosney, and an 18-run attack to sweep a pair of games Sunday at St. Pat’s Ball Park to grab a 2-1 lead in the best-ofseven St. John’s Molson Senior Baseball League final.

The Shammies can take a commanding 3-1 series lead with a win in Game 4 six o’clock Tuesday night.

Goosney threw 12 innngs at Shamrocks upended the Gonzaga Roebothan McKay Marshall Vikings 5-1 in the first game of a Sunday twinbill. The green and gold won the second game with a 13-1, five-inning whitewash of the Vikes.

“You don’t see that happen often,” Shamrocks coach Sean Gulliver said of his pitcher who pitched a complete game in one outing, and then came back to start the second. “But he only threw 86 pitches in the first game. He was cruising, and he felt strong. “So we went with him again.” Shamrocks were short-staffed with Bob Kent nursing a sore shoulder and Matt Murphy in Toronto over the weekend.

In the first game Sunday, Goosney allowed just one run on three hits over seven innings. He walked one and struck out six. Kieran Buckingham (7IP, 5R, 7H, 6W, 4K) suffered the loss.

Redmond Hunt cracked a two-run double for the winners.

In the second game, which became heated in the fourth inning, Shamrocks scored three runs in the bottom of the first inning and never looked back to support Goosney.

The Shamrocks starter scattered three hits and a walk, while fanning three. Starter Dan Connors (3.2IP, 9R, 7H, 6W, 0K) was tagged with the loss. Brian Lahey (1.1 IP, 4R, 3H, 1W, 2HB, 0K) finished up.

Gulliver led the Shamrocks’ attack with three hits. Hunt had two, along with Dave Penney. Penney hit a three-run home run in the fifth to end the game via the mercy rule.

In the fourth, Shamrocks’ back-to-back hitters Scott Stockley and Andrew Symonds were both plunked. That led to both benches clearing and some pushing and shoving which resulted in a couple of ejections.

There was no word Sunday night if disciplinary action will be taken by the league.