The Oxford Hills-based club erupts for five runs in the second inning to snap a 1-1 deadlock.
By Justin Pelletier
Staff Writer

SOUTH PARIS – The game wasn’t the prettiest game of the season so far for either team, and the thrills for the gathered crowd came few and far between, but for Bessey Motors, the result is exactly what it was looking for.

Chris Henderson ripped two doubles and scored two runs, Garret Olson smacked a triple and a single and Corey Tielinen pitched six solid innings to lead Bessey Motors to a convincing 7-1 win over Gayton Post 153 Tuesday night.

“We didn’t play bad tonight,” said Bessey Motors coach Shane Slicer. “I know Tielinen wanted to go the distance, but we figured it’d be best to see what we had in Mike Stacey.”

Stacey relieved Tielinen in the seventh inning and used 16 pitches to get three outs, ending the combined four-hitter for Bessey.

“They had a couple of errors and so did we,” said Gayton coach John Hessler. “But our were critical.”

Gayton (1-4) scored its only run of the game in the top of the second inning thanks to a Shawn Sabine single, a Joe McGrath sacrifice bunt and two consecutive fielding errors by Kyle Keniston and Brent Grenier. That tally evened the score at one, but the tie didn’t last long.

Grenier atoned for his error in the bottom half of the inning when he reached on a fielding error. Consecutive singles by Bradley Flanders and Keniston, followed by an Olson triple produced three runs. A squeeze bunt by Jeff Austin later scored Olson.

“Olson has been hitting the ball well lately,” said Slicer. “He went I think 7-for-8 over the weekend and now this tonight. He’s seeing the ball really well.”

Now facing a four-run deficit, Gayton tried to find ways to reach against Tielinen, but after falling behind, only one runner reached second base and only three total runners reached at all.

“He wasn’t overpowering at all,” said Hessler. “But he located his pitches well and he knew how to hit the corners.”

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