Teams with the Hopewell Valley Recreational Baseball League entered their second week of games last weekend. Here are the results from the first two weeks of games., MAJORS GAMES:, Vito’s Pizza Athletics played against the Hogan Self Storage Phillies. The winning team was the Athletics with a final score of 13-9. Matt Brown, John Vlassic, And Bennett Beyrouty were the winning pitchers., Jayden Shin was 2-for-3 with a single and a triple scoring twice., The Knapp’s Cyclery Cubs beat the Kuppek Landscaping Mets with a score of 8-4. The starting pitcher for the Mets was Jake Lengle and the starting pitcher for the Cubs was Trevor Fisher., Jake Lengle had an out of the park to start off the game for the Mets., The Hogan Self Storage Phillies played the Kuppek Landscaping Mets., The winner of the game was the Mets by a final score of 14 to 4 in four innings. The winning pitcher was Jake Lengle providing a huge spark for his team defensively and offensively., In the second inning, he ripped a three-run line drive home run over the left field fence to give his team the lead. When the game was over, Jake found himself just a double shy of the cycle., Hogan Self Storage Phillies tied Knapp’s Cyclery Cubs 10-10. The Hogan Self Storage Phillies were down 10-3 in the bottom of the fifth, until Jackson Sgro of the Phillies lead the inning off with a double, turning the score around to 10-6. The Phillies held the Cubs to two crucial scoreless innings with relief pitcher Brandon Manicni of the Phillies striking out the side in the top of the 6th inning. The bottom of the 6th came around with Jackson Sgro of the Phillies who went 3-4 on the day scoring as well as Chris Salmon of the Phillies who was also 3-4 on the day. Four runs scored in the final inning, totaling the score to 10-10 at the end of the day. Austin Martorana of the Cubs had himself a day going 3-5 with a hard line out, and striking out four., The Kuppek Mets played the Vito’s A’s. The winning team was the A’s by a score of 12-11. The winning pitcher was Gunner Casano. Gunner Casano also had the walk off hit in the bottom of the sixth to go with his five RBIs. Luke Kavulich contributed to the A’s victory with two hits. For the Mets, Alex Helmrich had two hits and Nate Szeliga pitched a solid two innings as well., Hogan Self Storage Phillies beat Vito’s Pizza A’s by a score of 5 to 3. The starting pitcher for the A’s was Gunnar Casano and pitched two scoreless innings not letting a batter reach first. The winning pitcher for the A’s is Felix Hogan who pitched one strong inning with one strikeout. In a 5th inning rally Brandon Mancini stole home to give the Phillies the lead. Chris Salmon on the Phillies made a game saving diving catch to end the game and win it for the Phillies., The Kappa Landscaping Mets played The Knapp’s Cyclery Cubs. The winning team was The Mets. The final score was 9-8., The winning pitcher was Nate Szeliga. In the fourth inning the Mets had three big hits from Owen Lengle, Alex D’Avanzo and Mason Scall. In the sixth and last inning of the game Owen Lengle had the game winning RBI, scoring Nate Szeliga from second base., BABE RUTH GAMES, Aztec Graphics played the Ewing Kiwanis in a five inning mercy rule game. The team that came out on top was Aztec graphics, scoring 19 runs to Ewing Kiwanis’ 3 runs. The winning pitcher for the game was Trey Hill from Aztec Graphics only allowing two runs and striking out three. Aztec had great offense scoring five in the first then tacking on 10 more runs in the top of the 3rd. All around team effort for Aztec combining for 12 hits including a Kenny Tagliarini triple in the 2nd., Horizon Services Inc. beat Ewing Kiwanis by a score of 12-3. Josh Beigman was the winning pitcher for Horizon. Ricky Eng went 3-3 with a triple and an RBI for Horizon. Carmen Zangrilli had a double and an RBI for Kiwanis., Ewing Kiwanis beat Dr. Mark McDonough by a score of 20-7. Cody Rich was the winning pitcher for Ewing Kiwanis. Manny Figueroa went 3-3 with a double, triple, and six RBIs for Kiwanis. Luke Sodomin went 2-2 with a triple and an RBI for McDonough., Aztec Graphics played Horizon Services. The winning team was Aztec Graphics with a final score of 6-4. The winning pitcher was Kenny Tagliareni with Trey Hill in relief. Colin Gilmore of Aztec Graphics had an amazing line drive catch and Dylan and Ricky Eng of Horizon Services both had triples.
