Blue Ox trip up ‘Jacks in 12th

GLENS FALLS, N.Y. – The Bangor Blue Ox hooked up with Adirondack for an all-nighter as the first game of the doubleheader took four hours to complete.

Bangor won the first game 4-3, thanks to Chris Hummell’s one-out, seeing-eye single past shortstop in the 12th inning. The hit scored Garret Quaintance, who led off the inning with a single.

The Blue Ox are 3-1 in the second half of the Northeast League season while the Lumberjacks drop to 1-3. Bangor is 8-2 – 3-1 in extra inning games – against Adirondack this season.

In the first game one of the newest members of the Bangor Blue Ox, lefthander Pete Hartman, came within three outs of a no-hitter. But he lost it, the shutout, and the victory on one swing of the bat.

Adirondack’s Dan MacDonald led off the bottom of the seventh with a homer and tied the game 1-1, sending it into extra innings.

Bangor took a 3-1 lead in the top of the 10th, but the Lumberjacks used the home run ball to tie it up again.

Darren Doucette belted a two-run shot off Bangor’s Steve Maddock with one out in the bottom of the 10th.

Center fielder Chad White left the game in the 10th after breaking his thumb and injuring his knee trying to catch Doucette’s homer. Matt Frias slipped off the mound warming up in the bullpen and left the park with a severe knee injury.

At press time, game two was knotted 1-1 in the top of the sixth.