Fisher Cats end season with a win

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Spencer Horowitz. Promotional photo

MANCHESTER, N.H. – The New Hampshire Fisher Cats finished off their 2021 season with a 6-4 win against the Harrisburg Senators on Sunday afternoon.

Harrisburg struck first with a three-run Ian Sagdal dinger to right in the top of the second, but Spencer Horwitz answered half an inning later with a bomb of his own to right, cutting Harrisburg’s lead down to 3-1.

Ryan Gold added a three-run homer for New Hampshire in the fourth to highlight a five-run rally that gave the Fisher Cats all they’d need for the win.

Gage Canning provided Harrisburg’s fourth run off a single to right in the eighth, bringing Sagdal home

Horwitz added a double and also added another run to cap off his first series since promotion from High-A Vancouver last week.

Fisher Cats pitchers combined for 11 strikeouts on the day as Johnny Barbato (3-5) earned the win for his ten outs in long relief. Graham Spraker earned his second save of the year for the Fisher Cats after recording three outs in the ninth.

With the result, New Hampshire finishes the season with a 52-55 record and Harrisburg ends their season with a 42-76 record.

 

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Born and raised in the Granite State, Andrew Sylvia has written approximately 10,000 pieces over his career for outlets across Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont. On top of that, he's a licensed notary and licensed to sell property, casualty and life insurance, he's been a USSF trained youth soccer and futsal referee for the past six years and he can name over 60 national flags in under 60 seconds according to that flag game app he has on his phone, which makes sense because he also has a bachelor's degree in geography (like Michael Jordan). He can also type over 100 words a minute on a good day.