Watertown finishes 19-0

The Watertown Blaze went undefeated (19-0) through the regular season and will be the top seed in the Stan Musial State Tournament that begins Monday July 24 and the Tri-State League playoffs. The Naugatuck Dogs, Blasius Chevrolet, and Terryville Black Sox will also participate in the state tournament. Each team is allotted 3 draft picks from the rest of the league teams that are registered with the AABC. The top 2 finishers in the state tourney advance to the AABC Northeast World Series that begins play on Thursday August 3rd.
The Dogs (#2 seed) along with Bethlehem Plowboys and Tri-Town Trojans have secured a first-round bye in the league playoffs. Tri-Town plays Tribury on Monday and will be the 3 seed if they win and the 4 seed if they lose. Tribury plays 2 games this week (Monday and Tuesday) and Litchfield plays Wednesday to finish out the makeups and the seeds will then be assigned for the playoffs. Top 12 teams make the playoffs which begins on Saturday July 29th.
Please note: if a state tourney team (Blasius or Terryville) make it to Friday in the state tourney then I will offer them the opportunity to begin league playoffs on Sunday instead of Saturday. Will stay in touch with the teams affected.

Watertown Blaze 5 Burlington Hunters 1
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Bethlehem Plowboys 17 Southington 66ers 1
Ty Erickson pitched a complete game 1 earned run, striking out 8. Matt Mancini went 4-4 with 6 rbis, and Mike Milius went 2-3 with 4 scored runs and Greg Campbell went 1-3 with a 2 RBI double. T. Jalbert had 2 hits including a solo home run for southington.
Tribury Twisters 4 Torrington Rebels 1
The Tribury Twisters defeated the Torrington Rebels 4-1 on Saturday at feussenich park in Torrington. Ben Brown tossed a complete game giving up 4 hits, striking out 11 and giving up 1 unearned run. Offensively for the Twisters Evan Devico had 2 doubles, ben brown had an RBI single, and tom rinaldi went 3-4 with a homerun.
Wolcott Scrappers 14 Canton Crushers 5
Justin Koutros carried Wolcott again going the distance allowing three earned runs and striking out six. Ryan Soucy had five hits (3 1B, 2 2B) scoring twice and driving in a run. Clete Lorusso had three hits including a two run triple while Eric Soucy, Ryan Andrade and Mikey Grasso all added two hits.
Terryville Black Sox 5 Waterbury Cougars 1
Ian Schmidt led off the game with a home run and added a double later in the game to lead Terryville over Waterbury.
Billy Armstrong picked up the win on the mound.
Tri-Town Trojans 5 Blasius Chevrolet 2
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Tri-Town Trojans 12 Valley Thunder 7
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Blasius Chevrolet 6 Bristol Greeners 5
Blasius Chevrolet defeated Bristol 6-5 at the Hotch. Fraz Kader led the offense with 3 hits with Mark Didominzio, Justin McCulloch, Jon Conlon and Eric Rovinetti all having two hits a piece. Dave Vadnais picks up his 101st win of his career and Phil Wilhelmy picking up the save. This game ends the regular season. Team Blasius plays game 1 of the state tournament down in Danbury High School at 7pm. Team Blasius would like to thank its sponsor Loehmann Blasius Chevrolet for its support all season long.
Winsted Whalers 7 Amenia Monarchs 6
Winsted and Amenia played a back and forth game. Winsted scored two runs in the 8th to take the lead back scoring on a wild pitch and then an rbi single by John Ambro. Jeff Negron pitched 7 strong innings and also contributed with two hits. Ben Schumacher pitched the last two scoreless innings. Ben had two doubles and two runs scored. Johnny Lippincott had a double and solo Homerun. Devin Warren had two RBI singles in the 3rd and 5th. Mike Dunlop took the loss but was 3-4 at the plate with two doubles and a solo home run. Both teams finish the regular season 10-9.
Naugatuck Dogs 5 Litchfield Cowboys 0
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