Thursday May 26
Blasius Chevrolet 3 Burlington Hunters 1
Blasius 2022 home opener versus Burlington began with no umpires and finished with one. The umpire came in hot full dressed as he jumped from a barely parked truck. He was just in time for the bottom of the first much to the relief of everyone. Just like the the ump Blasius came in hot as well by scoring all the runs they would need in the first inning off of Burlington starter Ty Morin. Conor Goggins would continue his hot start with a single to open the game. Eric Rovinetti would also single to keep the pressure on Burlington’s Morin. Goggins would be the first run of the game scoring on a Paul Novakowski’s RBI single. Rovinetti would score two batters later on Steve Harrison’s single. The score would remain 2-0 until the bottom of the 4th when Blasius would get things going again Fran Phelan singled and would later scoring on Dave Vadnais RBI single. The three runs would be all the Blasius pitching would need as Phelan (1-0) would pitch 4 shutout innings before giving way to Vadnais (1) who would pick up a three inning save only surrendering a run in the 6th. After the Memorial Day weekend Blasius (2-0) travel to Tri-town on Tuesday.
Canton Crushers 8 Wolcott Scrappers 2
The Crushers got things started in the first inning when Matt Rose singled, driving in First run of the game
Crushers added four runs in the second inning to take a commanding lead. Canton bats were led by Ben Sullivan, Mike Scott, and Jake Bryant, who all drove in runs. James Michanczyk earned the win on the allowing three hits and one run over four innings, Striking out 12. Jimmy Spirito threw three innings in relief the Tri- State veteran Spirito recorded the last nine outs to earn the save. Crusher Ben Sullivan had a night going 3-3 at the plate and stole 2 bases
Mike Pepe started on the mound for the Scrappers. Pepe allowed four hits and five runs over
two innings, striking out three. Scrappers Brandon Clark and Tyler Boisvert each had multiple hits
Thunder Ducks 6 Naugatuck Nightmare 0
The Thunder Ducks notched their first win of the season 6-0 over Naugatuck behind the dominant pitching of Zach Royka- who went the distance striking out 8, walking 4, and surrendering just two hits. Christian Cuevas and Strauss had the two hits for the Naugatuck nightmare. Ty Pelletier got the party started early for the Ducks, with a leadoff home run in the first. Pelletier collected two hits on the night. Zach Royka also produced at the plate, going 2-3 with a triple. Kyle Daddona and Ryan Shiel also added rbi singles
Torrington Twisters 4 Winsted Whalers 3
The Torrington Twisters opened their 2022 Tri St season before 109 paid customers on Thursday at Fuessenich Park. In a well played game the Twisters played small ball for the walk off in the 7th inning win.
The game went to the bottom of 7th tied at 3 when the Twisters used a beautiful bunt single by Rookie Steve Martinez a stolen base and a David Stragers infield single on a contact play to send the hometown crowd into a happy frenzy.
The Twisters used 3 pitchers Josh “Stosh” Rubino, Matt Sokol n Kyle Matthew’s who all pitched well. Matthew’s got the win. The line up featured booming doubles by Bryon Carr and Marcus Bloom and had 8 team stolen bases, 4 by Matthew’s. Martinez received the Hawk Harrelson pick to click game MVP award. Defensively where the Twisters shined most Martinez n Dj “Goldie” Reynolds flashed leather and turned 2 double plays and handled every chance perfectly.
Winsted got great pitching starter Mark Cummings and fireball reliever Jay Torres. Winsted 3rd baseman Lucas “the natural” Grynuk had a couple of hits with his sweet swing.
Tri-Town Trojans 23 Amenia Monarchs 11
A long night at doc Bartlett field ended in a Trojan 23-11 win. The Trojans offense exploded with dominant games by Austin Swanson (4-6, 5 runs, 3 SBs), willy Yahn (2-2, HR, 5 RBIs, 4 runs scored), Danny McCarty (4-6, SB, 5 RBIs, 3 runs) and coleby Bunnell (3-5, 5 5 RBIs 2 runs). Bobby Chatfield got the win for the Trojans, absolutely humming the ball in front the big crowd. Colby Dunlop had a game at the plate for Amenia, single handedly keeping the team in the ball game – Adding a HR and 5 rbis for the monarch’s. Thank you to the crowd that came out to doc Bartlett field!!!
Sunday May 29
Bethlehem Plowboys 14 Southington Gamecocks 4
Plowboys win 14-4 in a 7 inning mercy rule game over the newly dubbed Southington Gamecocks. Jason Johnson started for the plow throwing 2 innings, allowing 1 unearned run and striking out 5. The plow jumped out to an early 5-0 lead in the top of the first with the first 7 hitters reaching base and first 5 scoring respectively. The new old guys Greg Campbell, Ricky Descoteaux, and Matt Mancini (shoutout Westconn) batting 1,2,3 all scored runs and reached base twice. New comer Jesse Swartout smacked a 3 run homer in the 4th to snuff out an attempted come back in the third inning where Southington’s Dan Neal hit a 3 run homer to cut the lead down to 8-4. Dan Keckler came on in the seventh and even though 2 runners got on, the Plows new closer (hence his enter sandman warmup music) shut the door for the second game in a row striking out 3 batters in the 7th to end the game. The plow boys have just one question after 2 big wins to start the year, who do we play next?!