Liverpool baseball goes 2-1, shuts out B’ville

By PHil BlACKWEll

Another exciting week of area high school baseball saw Liverpool and Cicero-North Syracuse get involved in tight games, with differing results.

Liverpool was able to upend defending sectional Class AA champion Fayetteville-Manlius 7-6 last Monday in the first of two games with the Hornets.

Tyler Vivacqua, who pitched four innings before Aidan Bincoe and Anthony Testone worked in relief, led the attack, going threefor-four with two doubles and three RBIs to help build an early 6-1 advantage. Chris Baker and Alex Evans also drove in runs as Baker, Mike Henderson and Austin Burch had two hits apiece. Despite all this, F-M, down 6-1, tied it with four runs in the fourth and another run in the sixth. But in the bottom of the seventh, Jack Hoppe reached on an error, moved to second