Picture credit to Dan Gawkowski

MARSH FIELD - The Hamilton Joes took the first game of the GLSCL Championship Series after a commanding 14-1 win over the Muskegon Clippers at Marsh Field.

The Joes set the tone in the second inning when Brayden Fraasman (North Carolina State) launched a grand slam homer over the left field fence. The grand salami was just the third grand slam hit during the 2024 GLSCL season. Fraasman went 3-for-6 with five RBIs, two runs scored and a stolen base.

Hamilton starting pitcher Evan Moore (Lincoln Trail) kept the Clippers batters off balance with his off speed stuff and pitch location. Moore benefited from an offensive attack that included 17 hits.

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The Clippers could only muster three hits scoring it’s only run in the eighth inning.

Justin Osterhouse (Purdue Fort Wayne) lead off the inning with a double. Osterhouse scored when Sam Clay (Davenport University) smacked an RBI-single to center field. 

The Joes hit three home runs on the night including two of them during a five-run ninth inning.

Tommy Harrison (Miami University) hit a solo homer leading off the inning. 

Ryan Novak (Miami University) singled driving in Paul Osting (Lincoln Trial) and Frassman scored on a throwing error trying to throw him out at third base. 

Cam Gilkerson (Wright State) finished off the Clippers with a towering two-run homer to the deepest part of the ballpark in center field.

Moore pitched into the ninth inning before being pulled giving up just one run on three hits. He was replaced by Jared Teke (Northern Kentucky) who inherited a jam with no outs and runners on first and second base.

Teke finished off the Clippers with no further damage striking out Carson McCoy (Parker Henry CC) ending the threat and the game.

Fraasman, Harrison and Mitchel Szymczak (Lake Erie College) each had three hits for the Hamilton.

Hamilton is one win away from winning its fifth GLSCL Championship. The Joes will have a chance to do that in front of its home fans on Wednesday at Foundation Field with the first pitch scheduled for 7:05pm.

ABOUT THE GREAT LAKES SUMMER COLLEGIATE LEAGUE 

The Great Lakes Summer Collegiate, founded in 1987, is a wood-bat league that is certified by the NCAA and is partially funded by Major League Baseball. The GLSCL is a non-profit 501(c)(3) entity that is one of 12 members of the National Alliance of Collegiate Summer Baseball (NACSB). The league currently consists of 7 active franchises in Ohio and Michigan boasting several players that have earned service time in major league baseball.