Valley Sports ReportTIOGA CENTER — Tioga's Josh Rought and Cam Ross combined on a two-hitter, but Moravia took advantage of walks, a hit batter and the Tigers' only error to post a season-opening, 5-2, win here Monday afternoon in IAC Small School baseball action.
The Blue Devils scored a pair of two-out runs in the top of the first inning, the second scoring on an error.
Moravia used two walks, a hit batsman and a single to tack on three runs in the third inning to stretch its lead to 5-0.
The Tigers got on the scoreboard in the home half of the third inning.
Brayden Lounsbury started the rally with a one-out single, and Rought and Cooper Dember followed with base on balls to load the bases. Max Paugh plated both of Tioga's runs with a two-RBI line-drive single to left field.
The Tigers put two runners on base in the fifth inning on a one-out double by Dember and a single by Paugh, but both were left stranded.
Paugh was 3-for-3 with two RBI, and Dember doubled and singled to pace Tioga's eight-hit attack.
Lounsbury and Rought singled and scored one run for the Tigers, and Anthony Powell added a single.
Rought was tagged with the loss, allowing five runs — two earned — on two hits, while striking out eight and walking four in 3 1/3 innings.
Ross fanned five and walked two in 3 1/3 innings of no-hit relief.
Tioga returns to action Wednesday at Southern Cayuga.
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PHOTOS BY TIM TAYLOR.
