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ONEONTA — Joe Tucker’s bases-loaded single with no outs in the 10th inning gave the Oneonta Tigers a come-from-behind, 4-3, victory over the Lowell Spinners to earn a doubleheader split Tuesday at Damaschke Field.

Tucker’s lined single to center came off losing pitcher Felix Ventura (3-6).

Casper Wells left off Oneonta’s 10th with a double down the left field line. He moved to third on Brandon Timm’s bunt single. After Timm stole second, Louis Ott was intentionally walked to load the bases.

Oneonta trailed, 3-1, heading into the seventh inning. Scott Sizemore’s one-out RBI single brought the O-Tigers within a run and Brennan Boesch’s two-out RBI single tied it.

[an error occurred while processing this directive]Derek Witt (5-1) got the victory.

In the opener, the O-Tigers stranded 13 baserunners and lost, 4-2, in eight innings as both of the scheduled seven-inning games went extra innings.

Oneonta fell 4 games behind Stedler Division leader Tri-City with 16 games remaining in the New York-Penn League schedule. The ValleyCats (37-23) defeated Vermont, 6-1, Tuesday.

Oneonta (33-27), however, took a half-game lead over the Brooklyn Cyclones (32-27) in the race for the wild-card spot. Brooklyn lost its fifth straight game Tuesday, 6-0, to Hudson Valley.

In the first game, Jeff Vincent scored on a wild pitch and Zak Farkes had an RBI single in a two-run eighth inning to give Lowell a 4-2 lead.

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Vincent led off with a bunt single. Losing pitcher Casey Fien then made two errors on the same play. Ryan Khoury hit a sacrifice bunt that Fien misplayed. Fien then threw wildly on the play, allowing Vincent to reach third.

Fien’s wild pitch allowed Vincent to score and moved Khoury to second. After Daeges grounded out to second to move Khoury to third and Paul Smith popped out to short, Farkes singled to left for make it 4-2.

Fien (1-1) threw three innings in relief of starter Lauren Gagnier. Fien allowed three runs on four hits. Gagnier gave up one run on two hits in five innings. He struck out three and walked one.

Oneonta scored twice in the seventh inning to send the game into extra innings.

Sizemore, Boesch and James Skelton each singled to load the bases. After Ryan Strieby popped out to short, Tucker singled to right, scoring Sizemore.

Brandon Timm then flew out to center, scoring Boesch. Skelton was thrown out on a relay to third, center fielder Vincent to pitcher Yulkin German to third baseman Farkes.

Deik Scram, Sizemore, Boesch and Jeff Kunkel each had two hits for Oneonta, which had a 13-6 advantage in hits.

LOWELL ÐØ Ø ONEONTA ÐØÐØØØ Ø

ab r h bi Ø ÐØÐØØØ ab r h bi

Engel cf 3Ø0Ø0Ø0 Scram cf 5Ø0Ø2Ø0

Vincent cf 1Ø1Ø1Ø0 Bourquin 3b 5Ø0Ø1Ø0

Khoury ss 3Ø1Ø0Ø0 Sizemore ss 4Ø1Ø2Ø0

Daeges lf 4Ø1Ø1Ø0 Boesch rf 4Ø1Ø2Ø0

Smyth rf 4Ø0Ø1Ø1 Skelton c 4Ø0Ø1Ø0

Farkes 3b 3Ø1Ø1Ø1 Strieby 1b 3Ø0Ø1Ø0

Still c 3Ø0Ø1Ø0 Kunkel dh 3Ø0Ø2Ø0

Exposito dh 2Ø0Ø0Ø0 Tucker dh 1Ø0Ø1Ø1

Jimenez 1b 3Ø0Ø1Ø1 Timm lf 3Ø0Ø0Ø1

Chambrs 2b 3Ø0Ø0Ø0 Ott 2b 3Ø0Ø1Ø0

Segovia 2b 0Ø0Ø0Ø0 ÐÐØÐ

Totals ÐØ 29Ø4Ø6Ø3 Totals ÐÐ 35Ø213Ø2

Lowell 000 011 02 — 4

Oneonta 000 000 20 — 2

E—Fien 2. DP—Lowell 1. LOB—Lowell 5, Oneonta 13. 2B—Smyth, Boesch. 3B Daeges. S—Exposito, Khoury. SF Timm.

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ÐLowellÐØ ÐØ ÐØ ÐØ ÐØØ ÐØÐØ

Beazley Ø5ØØØØ7ÐØ0ÐØ0ÐØ1ÐØ2

German W, 5-1 Ø2ØØØØ5ÐØ2ÐØ2ÐØ2ÐØ3

Ventura S,1 Ø1ØØØØ1ÐØ0ÐØ0ÐØ0ÐØ2

ÐOneonta ÐØ ÐØ ÐØ ÐØ ÐØ ÐØ ÐØÐØ

Gagnier Ø5ØØØØ2ÐØ1ÐØ1ÐØ1ÐØ3

Fien L, 1-1 Ø3ØØØØ4ÐØ3ÐØ1ÐØ0ÐØ0

WP—Fien. HBP by Gagnier (Farkes).

T—2:30.