Here are recreation baseball results in games in the Ewing-Hopewell Babe Ruth league:
– Peddlers Village defeated the Bears, 7-5.
The Bears scored one run in the second inning, when Luke Blair started the inning off with a triple and Tony St. John had a sac fly to score him.
In the next inning Peddlers Village pushed across 5 runs from base hits and errors in the field. The Bears tied the game in the 6th inning, but in the 7th Peddlers Village regained the lead on a double from Andrew Blake and two RBIs from David.
Both teams had great pitching. The Bears had Luke Blair pitch for 6 innings with 5 strikeouts. Peddlers Village had Andrew Blake in for 3 innings with 3 strikeouts and David for the last 4 with 4 strikeouts.
– Aztec Graphics won against King’s Pizza, 10-0. Graphics pitcher Anthony Yarson had 11 strikeouts and gave up no runs. Pitchers Ryan Coughlin and Henry Hutchinson for King’s Pizza had 9 strikeouts. Carmen Zangrilli scored 3 runs and Drew Brodine had 4 RBIs.
— St John’s Chimney Sweeps Bad News Bears upended King’s Pizza, 9-4.
Things started off slow for both teams. In in the top of the third, Grayson Russo led off with a single, followed by a double from Chris Romano that scored the Bad News Bears’ first run.
Tony St. John brought Romano home on an error. St. John, Gavin Aker and Luis Figueroa brought in three more runs that inning to extend the lead to 5-0. In the top of the fourth, Russo, Riley Murphy and Romano scored off on hits from Murphy, Romano and St. John.
King’s Pizza picked up its first run in the fifth when Drew Zalescik brought in Joshua Beigman, who had led off with a double. After the Bears scored on an RBI from Figueroa in the top of the seventh, King’s Pizza bounced back with runs from Beigman, Anthony Mari and Ryan Coughlin. Coughlin, Justin Gaynord and Jayson Shin each hit in a run in the spree.
— Aztec Graphics took the win May 10 overthe Colavita Jewelers, 8-7. Aztec Graphics pushed to a lead of 3-2 in the first two innings with runs from Robby Mathes, Grant Sherman, Tommy Belsky, and hits from Mathes, Sherman, Carmen Zangrilli and Alex Paul.
In the third, Colavita Jewelers took the lead, 5-3, with runs and hits from Riley Gregg, Luke Sodomin and Matt Oshel. JT Saul scored on a RBI double from Charlie Potter in the fourth.
Matt Carom scored for Aztec Graphics in the top of the fifth, but it wasn’t until the sixth when Aztec Graphics took the lead again. Sherman, Zangrilli, Brodine, and Yarson scored to bring the score to 8-6.
Colavita Jewelers bounced back with a run from Chris Tobias in the bottom of the sixth, but were unable to score in the 7th.
Here are recreation baseball results in games in the Cal Ripken Major League of the Hopewell Valley Baseball/Softball Association:
– The Phillies defeated the Red Sox. 14-4. The Phillies’ Jake Loughery had two hits, including a double, and 3 runs batted in. Alex D’Avanzo hit two singles. Nate Szeglia knocked in 3 runs on two hits.
— Phillies won against the Mets, 12-5. The Phillies got off to an early start, scoring two runs in the first inning.
The Phillies added two in the second inning were scored on a steal of home. The pitch was the third strike, but it went wild, and hitter Nate Szeliga took off running. The throw to first by the Mets catcher missed and Nate ran to second and then third. He would later score on a sacrifice fly.
Jake Loughery contributed a triple that drove in a run. On the Mets side, Dylan Eng slugged a deep home run by off pitcher Elliot Block.
— The Knapp’s Cyclery Orioles held off the Mason, Griffin, and Pierson, P.C. Mets, 8-5. The Orioles exploded for 6 runs in the first inning and great pitching from Timmy McKweon and Nick Tagliarini held the Mets. The winning pitcher was Timmy McKweon.
For the Orioles, Nick Tagliarini went 1-2 with 1 walk and 2 runs. For the Mets, Marco Lianez went 2-3 with 2 runs.
– The Phillies of Applebee’s beat the A’s of Vito’s, 10-3. Christopher Tobia went 2-3 with a double, single and 3 runs scored. He also pitched 2 innings. Gunner Casano went 1-3 with a single and a stolen base and also pitched two strong innings.
