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Page 10 Thursday, July 21, 2011 The Westfield Leader and The Scotch Plains – Fanwood TIMES A WATCHUNG COMMUNICATIONS, INC. PUBLICATION Pioneers Walk by WF Silver WF Gray Ties Chatham, 5-5 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 single. Christian Caburis had three the first inning by striking out three throw four innings of strikes. He gets centerfielder Kelly made fine catches RBI. Dave Palatini scored twice. Pioneer batters. New Providence did, a lot of ground balls. He was moving to allow Westfield to escape the sec- Shawnak Deb and Luke Eiland each however, score first by plating a pair the ball all over the strike zone. We ond inning unscathed. In the bottom had an RBI. of runs in the second, combining three kept the batters off-balance,” of the inning, Westfield loaded the “We had to lay off some of those walks, a hit batter and Buerle’s single. Westfield Head Coach Jim Dwyer bases but failed to score. high pitches, but we also made good Westfield answered in the bottom of said. Piscitelli led off the third inning contact. We were patient. We made the inning with Criscuolo’s infield Cougar starter Kirin Damodoren with a ground-rule double and scored them play the ball. Sometimes they RBI single. held Westfield scoreless in his two when Dwyer’s grounder to third re- [Westfield] did. Sometimes they With the assistance of five free innings and allowed only two hits, sulted in an overthrow. Romano laid didn’t. They came back. They are a passes and a hit batter, three more while walking one. Jack Greiner down an infield single. Dwyer scored good team. They played a lot of games Pioneers rolled their wagon wheels tossed the third inning and to a pair on an overthrow then O’Brien gave in the last couple of days, so they are across home plate in the third inning of batters in the fourth before Connor Westfield a 3-0 lead with an RBI a little tired,” Coach Buerle said. “We to grab a 5-1 lead. With singles from Winans relieved and shutout single to right. The Cougars escaped were lucky to get out of here with a Tierney, Larkin, Maurillo and Westfield the remainder of the way. further damage with an inning-end- win.” Shovlin, and Regney’s triple, The Cougar trio combined for seven ing double play. In their four innings at the plate, Westfield Silver scuffed the plate five PITCHING TWO STRONG INNINGS…Jack Reilly pitched two strong innings strikeouts, while walking five and Chatham plated three runs on three Westfield Silver managed to get seven times in the third to take a 6-5 lead. for the Westfield White 9s in a 7-2 win over South Orange/Maplewood. yielding eight hits. hits in the fourth, but Westfield came hits and the biggest hit came off the In the fourth, however, the Pio- “We have been in close games all back with a pair of runs to take a 5- bat of Joe Rigney, who tripled past neers created a merry-go-round ef- year long. I am really proud of the 3 lead. The Cougars tied the game second, allowing two runners to score. fect, combining five hits, six free Westfield White 9s Improve boys the way they are playing. They quickly in the fifth and had runners He then alertly scored himself on an passes and a hit batter to settle eight are in every game. They fight. They on second and third with two outs. overthrow to third base. Dom Maurillo runs at home plate and to seize a 13- come back, and they have a lot of On a passed ball, the runner on third (RBI), Kevin Tierney and Larkin each 6 lead. Westfield missed a score in the To 7-2 in League Baseball spirit,” Coach Dwyer said. attempted to score but got tagged out had a single and scored once. David bottom of the fourth when Pioneer The Westfield White 9-year-old Offensively, Romano led Westfield at the plate. (2 innings), Jack Musho (3 innings) with two hits, a walk, three stolen Criscuolo (RBI), Eric Ellner and shortstop Olson snagged a pop fly in baseball team won two North Jersey and Danny Varano (1 inning) were on In the sixth, the Cougars attempted Grayson Shovlin each rapped a single. shallow centerfield and fired home in All-Star Baseball League games on bases and a run scored in his three their second riverboat gamble. the mound for White. plate appearances. Danny Piscitelli Justin Chambliss, who spent most of time to nail Criscuolo, who had tagged July 16 improving its record to 7-2 After four close innings against Maguire was on third and sped home his time behind the plate catching, up at third base and attempted to for the year. In the first game, doubled and scored once. Nick when the catcher dropped the ball on Springfield, the Westfield White fi- DiPinto (2 walks, stolen base) and also scored once. Zack Williams hit a score. Westfield White defeated South Or- nally got to Springfield’s pitching a call of “ball four”. Kelly, the catcher, sharp grounder in the first inning that The Pioneers scored a pair of runs ange/Maplewood Villagers, 15-9, and Jack LeVelle (RBI, walk) each had a got back in time to make the tag. and erupted for nine runs in the top of single. Coston O’Brien (RBI), Ethan was stopped by the pitcher. in the fifth, but exhaustion and the Springfield, 17-4, in Game 2. the fifth. Rooney, Echausse (3 in- “We had the fastest guy on our “Some of those kids at this age are shadows of night began to close in After a tight start, White rattled the Finver and Ben Kelly each had a team up at third, and there was a nings pitched, 0 runs) and Russo held single, Phil Dwyer scored once and just going up there looking for walks, and the game was ceased. Villagers with consecutive hits from the Springfield bats at bay. White’s passed ball. I definitely think he was and you want them up there swing- “We had a double header Saturday Brendan Hiltz, Jack Reilly, Andrew stole a base, and Matt Harris walked safe, but it’s tough. You got to take offense erupted when Hiltz walked, and reached base on an error. Walter ing. Our number one rule is if you go [July 9], a double header Sunday. We Echausse and William Kessler in the Riley, Echausse, Kessler singled, gambles with your fast players,” down on strikes, you got to go down had six games in four days, and all 13 fourth inning. The big blow came off Peregrim lofted a ball that was mis- Coach Nonnenmacher said. “We Kohler doubled and Rooney launched handled in right field, allowing a run swinging. We try to get the kids swing- kids pitched. I keep a close eye on of the bat of Danny Kohler, who a two-run triple to deep center. Tilyou, have been very successful with that. ing. We want them to lay off high pitch count, and everyone of them launched a two-run homerun over the to score. Once we get Jack Maguire to first, it Russo, Varano Kinglsey, Musho and Michael Tortorella (double, 2 sto- pitches, which is a habit that a lot of were at their limit. I just didn’t have right fielder’s head. Smith each had base hits in the game. is as good as a triple, and we take young kids have,” Coach Criscuolo anymore arms left,” Coach Criscuolo Griffin Rooney smacked a triple. len bases) and Jack Murray (walk, advantage of steals.” Westfield White has three league stolen base) each went 2-for-2 with said. said. Nick Russo, Ryan Smith and John games remaining on the schedule “It was classic little league. To Hurtt managed to escape a shaky Tilyou each had two hits, and Derek an RBI and a run scored for the keep the other team to five runs is a New Providence 023 82 15 before league playoffs begin on Sat- Cougars. Jack Nonnenmacher (RBI), bases-loaded situation in the top of Westfield Silver 015 0- 6 Kingsley added one hit. Jack Reilly urday, July 23. great accomplishment. If we had a Damodoran (RBI) and Jack Maguire timely hit here and there, we would See it all on the web in color . (stolen base) each singled and scored have broken it open,” Coach Dwyer www.goleader.com once. Winans singled and Greiner said. WF Area ‘Y’ Devilfish Shine walked and swiped a base. “It was a good game. The teams Westfield got out of a jam in the are very, very even. It was a fantas- At Independence LC Meet top of the first when shortstop tic, well-played baseball game. We Blue Devil Golf Camp Romano snagged Nonnenmacher’s had good pitching. They had good The Westfield Area “Y” Devilfish 15+ Boys: Dan Jones (13th 100 fly). liner and flicked to second baseman pitching. The game was tied. No- Beginners - Ages 7-13 Long Course (LC) Swim Team com- 15+ Girls: Abby Pires (14th 100 breast). Peregrim for a double play. Chatham body goes home a winner or a loser,” Tues. Aug. 16 thru Fri. Aug. 19 peted at the SVY July Independence Five Devilfish LC team records returned the favor in the bottom of Coach Nonnenmacher said. LC Invitational at Rutgers University were broken. Shannon Sokolow set a the inning when third baseman Chatham 000 320 5 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm on July 8 through July10, and 20 new LC team record for 15-18 Girls Nonnenmacher made two straight Westfield 003 200 5 Devilfish achieved “best times” in 200 IM, Matt Daniel broke the 15-18 difficult plays that ended in putouts.