Sharing is a good thing in most instances. Sports isn’t one of them.
On Saturday, the Woodstock Academy baseball team downed East Lyme, 2-0, to claim, at least, a share of the ECC Div. I title.
The Centaurs still need a win over Waterford or Fitch to claim it outright.
Coach Connor Elliott said: “It was our first goal coming into the year ... win the regular season championship."
Brady Ericson made this one possible as he allowed only a pair of harmless singles and struck out eight. In the 7th Maxx Corradi singled to lead off the inning and was sacrificed to second. Keon Lamarche followed with a base hit and an error on the play allowed Corradi to score. David Bunning came on to pinch run for Lamarche and came across on a Riley O’Brien single to account for the two runs. The Centaurs are now 6-0 in ECC Div. I.
Six players were honored in Senior Day prior to the game with Maloney High School and Elliott praised them all.
Woodstock handed Maloney a 7-1 loss. Corradi had a pair of doubles, scoring a run off of it in the first and driving in another in the fourth. Matt Hernandez also had a pair of RBI singles to back the pitching of O’Brien.
The righthander improved to 4-1 on the season as he pitched a six hitter through six innings and struck out four.
Earlier in the week, it was a rare occurrence at the Bentley  --- a ball hit over the fence in left by Lamarche.
The Centaurs were leading Lyman by just two runs in the bottom the fifth. The home run by Lamarche helped guarantee the Centaurs their third straight victory by shutout, 4-0 over the Bulldogs.
Corradi drew  a walk but was thrown out attempting to steal. O’Brien kept the inning going when he was hit by a pitch. Up came Lamarche. The coach’s guesstimate was that it traveled at least 380 feet.
Sophomore Brady Lecuyer was in the right place at the right time. Hernandez singled and Sampson reached on an error in the second. Up came Lecuyer and he hit a two-run double to put the Centaurs up, 2-0. Mathewson went six innings, gave up just two hits and struck out nine before he yielded to Logan Coutu in the seventh.
The Centaurs have four regular games left, but will be on the road, playing North Branford, Waterford, Fitch and St. Bernard.
Marc Allard
Director of Sports Information
The Woodstock Academy

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