Thursday July 24

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Burlington Hunters 16  Valley Kraken 4

The Burlington Hunters win their 8th game in a row defeating the Valley Kraken 16-4. Tim Krol earned the win on the mound for the Hunters surrendering 4 runs on just 3 hits while striking out 6. For the Kraken, Ryan Bohrman went all 7 innings on the mound and was saddled with the loss. Alex Rauso had a career day hitting his 4th home run in the last 4 games, drove in 5 runs, and fell a single short of the cycle. Justin McCulloch had a multi-hit game including a 2-run home run to left. George Zaruba had a 3 hit game including 2 doubles and drove in 3 runs. Steve Caruso also had a 2 hit game with 2 doubles and managed to catch all the balls hit to him in center this time around. The Hunters close out the 2025 regular season this Saturday taking on the Naugatuck White Sox at home.

Game Highlights: At the age of 43 Justin McCulloch becomes the oldest player in Tri-State history to hit a home run (probably right?) and Alex Rauso, after hitting a 3 run home run and a triple right handed, thought it would be fun to try hitting left handed and responded with an RBI double.

Tri-Town Trojans 3  Naugatuck White Sox 1

Game recap coming soon.

Bethlehem Plowboys 10  Winsted Whalers 0

The Bethlehem Plowboys defeated the Winsted Whalers 10-0 on Thursday at Plow as three pitchers combined to throw a shutout. Isaiah Johnson, Matt Sibilia, and Jason Johnson each pitched for Bethlehem in the game. The Plowboys won thanks in part to six runs in the first inning.  Carsten Donovan homered, scoring two runs, Chase Belisle singled, scoring one run, Ryan Reynolds doubled, scoring two runs, and Jake Torrence hit a sacrifice fly, scoring one run. The Plow added four more runs in the bottom of the second inning on three hits. Ryan Ponte hit a sacrifice fly, scoring two runs, Johnson hit a solo home run, and Belisle hit a solo home run on back to back at bats! Jason Johnson earned the win for the Bethlehem Plowboys. The right-handed pitcher surrendered three hits and zero runs over four innings, striking out four and walking four. Isaiah (the other) Johnson and Sibilia each came on in relief for Bethlehem Plowboys and shutdown Winsted. Jay Torres went 2-for-4 at the plate to lead Winsted whalers in hits and pitched a clean 4.1 innings of relief. 

Bethlehem welcomes the Tri-Town Trojans on Saturday for their next game in a battle for the 1 seed for the playoffs!