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On This Date in Local Sports History: May 8, 2002

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On This Date in Local Sports History: May 8, 2002

This is part of a series of periodic looks back at nuggets of local sports history:

Dramatic win for first-place B-Mets

Scott Hunter, slumping to the tune of 0-for-13 entering the game, smacked a two-run double as part of a six-run eighth inning that propelled the Binghamton Mets to a 10-9 win at Norwich, Conn. That left Binghamton an 18-11 record and preserved their top spot in the Eastern League’s Northern Division.

Hunter, a veteran outfielder unexpectedly assigned to the Double-A post out of spring training, also came up with a two-out, two-run home run in the first inning. He raised is batting average that day from .203 to .226.

Rodney Nye’s two-run homer began the eighth-inning rally, reducing the deficit to 8-6.

On the high school front …

Called upon to make a spot start, Vestal senior D.J. Wiggins came through in supreme fashion.

Wiggins pitched a two-hitter with 16 strikeouts in a 1-0 baseball slip past Corning East. And for good measure, he produced the run with a second-inning single that scored Chris Brew, who’d singled and stole second and third. Wiggins allowed a first-inning single and another in the seventh. He sidestepped a bases-loaded pickle by striking out East’s final batter.

“He just came out and blew them right away,” Golden Bears coach Tank Anderson said of Wiggins, who’d not pitched for better than two weeks. “He was dominant.”

Also that day, Union-Endicott was a 5-1 winner against Ithaca behind Matt Francavillo’s 6 1/3 innings of three-hit, nine-strikeout pitching and Mike Folli’s third-inning triple that scored Matt Ferraro and Scott Osman for a 2-1 lead.

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