Nanticoke tops Back Mountain for Section 5 Softball title

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The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders rallied from a four-run hole, but saw the Buffalo Bisons push home the difference-making run in a 5-4 final on Saturday night.The RailRiders (47-44) suffered its 13th loss in 17 games while Buffalo (45-45) has won eight of 11.Buffalo&#8217;s Luke Scott singled home Melky Mesa for a 1-0 margin in the opening inning. A run-scoring groundout by Caleb Gindl and an Austin Romine passed ball led to two more runs in the fourth inning against fill-in starter Diego Moreno.Reliever Jose Ramirez surrendered an unearned run in the fifth on Andy Burns&#8217; double, but the RailRiders rallied against Buffalo starter Matt Boyd with a four-run sixth.Boyd, who retired the first 11 men he faced, gave up all four runs on homers in the sixth. Ramon Flores launched a three-run job to right, his seventh, while Greg Bird bashed his first career Triple-A home run to right two batters later.IL All-Star Matt Hague singled Burns home in the seventh against Branden Pinder (0-3) for the game-winning tally. The run went unearned due to a passed ball earlier in the frame.Buffalo&#8217;s Joel Pineiro (1-1) got the win with 2.1 innings of scoreless relief while Bobby Korecky retired the lone man he faced for his sixth save.The three-game series concludes at 1:05 p.m. on Sunday. Right-hander Luis Severino (4-0, 1.99) gets the nod against southpaw Daniel Norris (2-8, 3.62).Buffalo 5, RailRiders 4RailRiders`AB`R`H`BIGamel cf `4`1`1`1Pirela 2b `3`1`0`0Flores rf `4`1`2`3Romine c `4`0`1`0Bird 1b `4`1`1`1Austin lf `4`0`2`0Roller dh `4`0`0`0Fiorito 3b `3`0`0`0Conde ss `3`0`1`0Totals`33`4`8`2`4Buffalo`AB`R`H`BIMesa cf `4`2`1`0Burns 3b `4`1`2`1Hague 1b `4`0`3`1Scott dh `1`1`1`1Schimpf ph, dh `2`0`0`0Hassan lf `4`1`2`0Gindl rf `4`0`0`1Santiago 2b `3`0`0`0Thole c `4`0`0`0Diaz ss `3`0`0`0Totals `33`5`9`4SWB `000`004`000`&#8212;`4Buffalo`100`210`10x`&#8212;`52B &#8212; Gamel, Austin HR &#8212; Flores, BirdRailRiders`IP`H`R`ER`BB`SOMoreno`3.1`5`3`2`2`3Ramirez`2.2`2`1`0`0`4Pinder, L `2.0`2`1`0`0`3Buffalo`IP`H`R`ER`BB`SOBoyd`6.0`7`4`4`2`4Pineiro, W `2.1`1`0`0`0Rasmussen `0.1`0`0`0`0`0Korecky `0.1`0`0`0`0`0<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta>Times Leader</bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta>Reach Times Leader sports at 570-829-7143 or on Twitter @tlsports.</shirttailMeta></div>

RailRiders rally comes up short to Bisons