Balls were flying and leather was flashing across New Canaan’s diamonds last week as the youth baseball season moved into its third week. The Yankees made some strides in the Majors 70’s league with a pair of impressive wins over neighboring teams from Norwalk. Meanwhile the Orioles and A’s played a classic game at Mellick Field that ended in a deadlock, and the younger Yankees team closed the gap in the AA division.
Majors (70’s)
Yankees–8, Village Gourmet–4 ; Yankees–8, George Comfort–3
Griffin Koch gets ready to rip for the Yanks.
Jackson LaSusa, Griffin Koch and James Singer each had 2 hits as the South End Yankees beat Norwalk’s Village Gourmet 8-4. Ryan Higgins pitched 2 shutout innings and Jack Ellis pitched the final 4. The Yankees played the last 4 innings with 8 players and all came together to defend the lead.
The Yankees also beat Norwalk’s George Comfort team, this time by an 8-3 count. Will Cosco, Ryan Higgins and Jack Ellis were solid on the hill for the Bombers. Clete Wheeler earned Gold Glove consideration with some great defensive plays.
AA
Orioles–10, Athletics–10
The Orioles’ Eoin Mueller rounds third.
The Stamford Insurance Group Athletics and the Express Orioles battled to a 10-10 tie. The A’s hitters were paced by solid RBI at-bats from Calvin Stuart and Jack Johnson, while Eoin Mueller and Mason Zea were the offensive leaders for the Orioles. The O’s defense was anchored by infield play from Charlie Besgen and Jackson Easley, while the A’s countered with excellent ‘D’ from catcher Henry Sokolowski and SS Daniel Rogers.
Yankees–11, A’s–5
Ty Groff fires in a strike for the A’s.
The Karl Chevrolet Yankees broke open a 2-2 tie with 6 runs in the 4th inning to hand the Stamford Insurance Group Athletics their second loss of the season. Trey Hartnett, Giovanni Cascione and Holden Busby were the big hitters for the Yanks who also got a great pitching performance out of Cameron “The Cambino” Besaw.
The A’s were led by Andrew Jones and Jared Kramer at the plate and Ryan Connelly and Jack Reed in the field. Philip Etergino also had a solid day-both at the plate and on the mound-and Ty Groff was solid in his two innings of work.