Rain-Thinned Crowd Sees Plenty of Baseball on ‘Pack the Park Night’

A pregame drizzle kept attendance to 1,379 for Penn College’s “Pack the Park Night,” but those who ventured to Bowman Field watched as the skies cleared … and saw better than three hours’ worth of baseball, a 29-hit marathon than ended with the Williamsport Crosscutters on the wrong side of an 11-7 tally against Batavia. Thursday’s fans, part of “College Town Week” for students and employees of Penn College, Lycoming College and Newport Business Institute, heard a rendition of the national anthem by James E. Allshouse, a welding and fabrication engineering technology major from Indiana, and enjoyed a night full of fun, food, games and giveaways.