Dunfee: 4 scoreless innings, 3 RBIs as Zebras top Bremen

Wilburn goes 3 for 3 with 2 RBIs

BY VAL TSOUTSOURIS

Sports Editor, RTC

Baseball

Connor Dunfee Linden Wilburn

Rochester 8, Bremen 3 (Thursday): Conner Dunfee pitched four scoreless innings in relief for the win, and he also had a double and three RBIs at the plate as the Rochester baseball team beat host Bremen Thursday for their third straight win.

Sophomore and cleanup hitter Linden Wilburn went 3 for 3 with two RBIs, and Parker Casper, Callen Ferverda and Liam Spence each added a hit and an RBI. Brady Coleman and Zakk Parks added two hits each as part of Rochester’s 14-hit attack.

Carson Paulik, Brant Beck and Brayson Flory had one hit each.

Zack Buszkiewicz had two of Bremen’s nine hits, and he also had an RBI, but he took the loss on the mound. He pitched 4 ⅓ innings and allowed eight hits and seven runs (four earned) while walking two.

Neither Buszkiewicz nor reliever David Monesmith had a strikeout.

Rochester scored three runs in the first before Bremen came back to tie, but Rochester went ahead for good with five runs in the fifth.

Parks singled and went to second on a wild pitch and scored on Wilburn’s go-ahead RBI single. Parker Casper reached on an error.

Dunfee, who had an RBI groundout in the first, followed with a two-run double to make it 6-3. Dunfee went to third on Beck’s single, and Ferverda and Spence followed with their RBI single to complete the scoring.

Casper pitched the first inning, and Spence pitched the second and third. 

Dunfee then entered in the fourth. Bremen had runners on second and third with no one out in the fifth, but Dunfee got Landon Bates to pop out and Jace Pippenger to line to Coleman at short, who threw to third for an inning-ending double play.

Rochester is 13-15. Their next scheduled game is a Class 2A, Sectional 38 semifinal against host Eastern (Greentown) at approximately 1 p.m. May 30.

Rochester 8, Bremen 3

Rochester 300 050 0 – 8 14 1

Bremen 201 000 0 – 3 9 3

WP – Conner Dunfee (4 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 2 K)

LP – Buszkiewicz (4 ⅓ IP, 8 H, 7 R, 4 ER, 2 BB, 1 HBP, 0 K)

2B – Conner Dunfee (RHS), Parker Casper (RHS), Wildauer (BRE), Bates (BRE)