GLENS FALLS -- A bus dropped them off here at 3 a.m. Sunday. This was the message the Glens Falls Golden Eagles left East Field with: be back in less than 10 hours prepared to play two New York Collegiate Baseball League games against Hornell. Oh yeah, and forget pregame batting practice. No time.

Thus it was no surprise the way the Golden Eagles came out of their doubleheader: flat. They gave up seven runs on just one hit and entered the final inning trailing by four.

Down to three final outs, Glens Falls got something of a wake-up call and exploded for five runs to claim an 8-7 win. The Golden Eagles then regrouped for a smooth, sound 6-3 victory to complete the sweep and improve to 11-5 a little more than a third of the way through the regular season.

"Playing games like this is tough -- now don't think the winning comes easy," Glens Falls coach John Mayotte said.

No, the wins on this day, one that had the perpetual feel that a big storm was only seconds from bursting, came anything but easy. The Golden Eagles entered the final inning of the opener staring down the barrel at a 7-3 deficit. With players lining the mouth of the dugout with their hats -- their rally caps -- inside-out and cocked at weird angles, the hits soon began to mount.

By the time Mike Konstanty lifted a bases-loaded shot to left-center field that scored the tying and winning runs, Glens Falls was engulfed in a wild celebration.

New ownership in search of ways to attract a larger crowd is getting plenty of help from the on-field product. It was the Golden Eagles' third home win in their last at-bat.

"The difference between a great summer and a mediocre summer is just that -- clutch, timely hitting," Mayotte said. "Fortunately, so far, we've been pretty good at that."

It was a nice welcoming gift for Konstanty, who joined the Golden Eagles on Friday. Konstanty played here last year, and with Chris Shehan and Junior Mejia already home nursing injuries, a new player was needed. Mayotte called the Winthrop coaching staff, coming away a little surprised that the big slugger was still available for the summer.

"We knew what he brought to the table, that he can swing the bat," Mayotte said.

The Golden Eagles snacked on fruit in between games, then carried over the momentum to the nightcap, scoring a run in each of the first four innings. Left-handed starter Mike LaFleur scattered three hits across 5-1/3 innings, appearing content to let Hornell batters put the ball in play so long as his defense remained stout.

The Dodgers loaded the bases with one out in the fourth, but third baseman Tim Barger lined out sharply to first base for a double play. Skipping off the mound, LaFleur turned toward the Hornell dugout and let out a celebratory scream.

Down 4-0, Hornell tried to creep back in it with a pair of runs in the sixth, but Jonathan White's two-RBI triple in the bottom half of the inning added some insurance. In two games Sunday, White, a smooth-swinging freshman from Vanderbilt, had six hits, four runs and three RBIs.

"It's hard to win two games of a doubleheader," White said. "Once we won the (first) game like we did, it got us going."



Game 1

HORNELL GLENS FALLS

ab r h bi ab r h bi

Bunker c 3 2 0 0 Consolmagno cf 3 1 1 0

Rose 2b 4 1 0 0 Tews ss 4 2 2 1

Adams rf 2 1 0 0 White lf 4 3 3 1

Carter dh 4 0 2 2 Recknagel c 4 0 2 2

Rogers ss 4 0 0 1 Arensdorff rf 3 0 0 0

Barger 3b 3 1 0 2 Konstanty 1b 4 0 1 2

Hoover lf 3 0 1 0 McWhorter 2b 3 1 1 0

Yerby 1b 2 1 0 0 Conan 3b 2 1 1 0

Giambrone cf 1 1 0 0 Cawiezell dh 3 0 0 1

Totals 26 7 3 5 Totals 30 8 11 7

Hornell 400 300 0-- 7 3 1

Glens Falls 000 201 5 -- 8 11 2

E -- Eckel, Recknagel, Lentz. DP -- Glens Falls 1. LOB -- Hornell 8, Glens Falls 5. 2B -- Recknagel, Konstanty, Conan. SF -- Arensdorff. SB -- Rose, Doherty, Consolmagno. CS -- Adams.

IP H R ER BB SO

Hornell

McHenry 5 4 2 2 0 3

Eckel 1.1 4 4 4 1 0

Kupiec, L .1 3 2 2 0 0

Glens Falls

Lentz 3.1 1 7 2 6 1

Hassett, W 3.2 2 0 0 1 2



Game 2

HORNELL GLENS FALLS

ab r h bi ab r h bi

Giambrone cf 3 1 0 0 Consolmagno cf 2 2 1 0

Rose 2b 3 0 1 1 Tews ss 4 1 1 1

Adams rf 3 1 0 0 White lf 4 1 2 2

Hoover lf 3 0 1 0 Recknagel dh 4 0 1 1

Carter dh 2 1 0 0 Arensdorff rf 3 0 0 1

Rogers ss 3 0 2 1 Konstanty 1b 2 0 0 0

Yerby 1b 1 0 0 1 McWhorter c-rf 2 2 1 0

Barger 3b 2 0 0 0 Conan 3b 3 0 2 1

Brandt c 3 0 0 0 Knight 2b 2 0 0 0

Payne c 0 0 0 0

Totals 23 3 4 3 Totals 26 6 8 6

Hornell 000 002 1-- 3 4 1

Glens Falls 111 102 x -- 6 8 2

E -- LaFleur, Conan, Barger. DP -- Glens Falls 1. LOB -- Hornell 8, Glens Falls 7. 2B -- Rose, Rogers, Consolmagno, Conan. 3B -- White. SB -- White. CS -- Yerby. S -- Arensdorff.

IP H R ER BB SO

Hornell

Stewart, L 3 6 4 4 3 1

Crumbliss 3 2 2 2 1 2

Glens Falls

LaFleur, W 5.1 3 2 2 4 0

Jenzen .2 0 0 0 0 1

Cawiezell 1 1 1 1 1 2

HBP -- by LaFleur (Carter 2), by LaFleur (Adams), by Jenzen (Barger), by Stewart (Knight).