Moosup, 

TriTown

teams 

explode 

By Ron P. Coderre

The 4th of July holiday inspired the TriTown and Moosup Senior American Legion Baseball programs as the two teams exploded like skyrockets in flight in an action packed week.  Post 91 of Moosup enjoyed the type of week team’s dream of, picking up five victories in six games.  TriTown meanwhile, suffered through a four game downturn but then bounced back by sweeping a three game series over a very good Montville unit.

Danielson, which started the season like a bottle rocket has fizzled in recent weeks.  The Danielson team was swept in a three-game series with Zone VI leaders Niantic.

On the Junior level TriTown, which has been a hard luck loser in close games, regained respectability with a pair of wins over a New London team that’s expected to win the Zone Jr. crown.

Moosup Moves into 4th Place

 in 11-Team Zone

Moosup, which got off to a late start in Zone VI play, is quickly making up for time lost during the beginning of the Legion season.  Post #91 swept a three-game series over Ledyard-Pawcatuck and captured two-of-three from Jewett City during a week where they went 5-1.  The surge propelled Moosup into 4th place in the Zone with a 10-6 record.

Moosup threw its ace Mike Esposito, and Jeff Nicolosi in a doubleheader against Ledyard-Pawcatuck and walked away a victor in both games.  Esposito scattered seven hits on his way to hurling a 3-0 shutout in the first game against L-P.  In the second game Nicolosi picked up the win in an 8-7 seesaw battle.  A six-run 6th inning offensive explosion sparked the win for Post #91.  Colby Cyrus had a homer and Esposito a double to key the victory.  The team closed out the series with an easy 12-2 win in the finale.

In taking two-of-three from archrival Jewett City, Moosup won the opener and closer of the series.  The initial contest was an old fashioned 1-0 pitcher’s duel between winning hurler Kyle Boarman and tough luck loser Mitchell Ritchie.  Esposito, who had two hits including a double, scored the only run of the contest.

Esposito captured the win in the third game of the series a 10-9 slugfest.  Cyrus and Garret Griffin each had three hits in the win, while Steve Jankowski contributed a key double.  Moosup scored two-runs in the top of the 7th inning and held off a JC rally to close the door and seal the win.

Sandwiched in between the wins was a 6-5 loss.  Ryan Pambuku took the loss.  David Carpenter had two hits and drove in a pair of runs for Moosup.

TriTown, which has to be the Zone’s hard luck team, opened the week by being swept by New London in a three-game set, then losing a make-up contest to the Zone’s top team, Niantic before putting together a three-game sweep over Montville.

Nick Foucault came up from the Junior team to pitch the Towners to a 7-1 opening game victory over Montville.  Foucault held Montville’s big bats to only four hits.  He received offensive support from Ty Anderson (triple) and Kyle Tyler who had two hits apiece and Sean Falvey and Ben Brissette who each had a double.

The Towners than swept the series final two games by identical scores of 5-4.  Josh Allard’s two-out two-run double in the bottom of the seventh was the big blow in the completion of a suspended contest.  Anderson was the winning pitcher.  Allard took the mound in the regularly scheduled final game of the series and pitched his mates to victory.  TriTown scored all its runs in the first two innings of the game and held on for the win, which raised its record to 6-12.    

The start of the week could have been devastating for the Towners as they were shutout in a twinbill in New London 7-0 and 1-0 by the Whalers.  Hunter Nadeau held TriTown to two hits, both by catcher J.P. Bergeron, in the opener.  Steve Bettner suffered the loss.  Anderson and Andrew Fogarty hooked up in an old fashioned pitcher’s duel in the nightcap.  Anderson sufferd the loss as his mates were unable to generate key hits at opportune moments.  The third game of the series was a blowout with NL banging out 21 hits in a 17-0 rout.

In the middle of the seven-game stretch, TriTown lost to Niantic 8-3.  Falvey went 2-for-4 with two RBI for the Towners.

Danielson, which is suffering through a five-game losing streak, dropped to 10-8 on the season as it was swept by Niantic.  Danielson lost the opener 7-1 and was shutout 5-0 in the middle game of the set as losing pitcher Ben Rumrill received only three hits from his mates.  Ben Desaulnier had a double in the loss.  The final contest saw Danielson lose in the eighth inning 5-4.   

TriTown Juniors Come Alive

The TriTown Junior Legion team raised its record to 5-7 with a pair of wins over New London.  The team opened with a complete game 5-3 victory by Ryan Gadoury, who struck out five Jr. Whalers along the way.  Jared Durand went 2-for-3 and Jacob Guertin had a double in the win.

The Jr. Towners came back in the next game, rallying for a 7-6 win behind the complete game pitching of Joey Donovan.  The winning run came on a Gadoury sacrifice fly to right field that scored Foucault, who had a banner day going 3-for-4 with three runs batted in.  Pinch hitter Tyler Shanley executed a perfect sacrifice bunt in the 7th inning that moved Foucault to third base.  Gadoury was 2-for-3 with two RBI.

 

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