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HUDSON VALLEY SENIOR SOFTBALL
Highlights
A&R 15 - McHoul's 14
Today, at Sheafe Road, McHoul's prevailed in a hard-fought battle with A&R by a score of 15-14. For McHoul's, Emil Viola and Jim Kirzoncic went 4 for 4. Phil Chontos and Andy Burger went 3 for 4 with Russ Gilmore, Paul Lastowski, Lou Rosenberg and Joe Hatch contributing two hits each.
Miller's 20 - Michael's 3
At Sports Park Jr, Miller's defeated Michael's 20-3. Stats for Michael's: Eddie Smilkstein 3-3 (3 2b), Stan Smilkstein 3-3, Jack Baxter 2-3.
Arlington Grill 21 - J&N 5
Arlington Bar & Grill defeated J&N 21-5. Great team defense! Jim "Doc" Ranucci, Angelo Sblendorio and Tom Mirande all had 4 hits. Mark Joao and George Norris had 3 hits. Team batting average over .600. Winning pitcher was Angelo Sblendorio.
In a game that was much closer at the beginning than the end, J&N fell to Arlington Grill today at Digilio. Somehow The Grill arranged for the incoming left field wind to stop blowing whenever their big hitters came up. A conspiracy if ever this reporter has ever seen one. Regardless, Steve Savod, Mark Battastoni, Billy Volpe, Joe DiMaria and Rick Brettholtz each had 2 hits for J&N.
Pizza Time 14 - Mountain View Ranch 13
Opening day at Whitsell for the Wednesday league, Pizza Time faces Mountain Valley Ranch. Both teams stood on each side of the field and had a moment of silence to honor the players of the past and those who passed away. Then with the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag, with a memorial honoring Henry Butts under the flagpole. Henry was a Vietnam veteran. After the ceremony, the game began with a bang. MVR came out of the gate and scored 5 runs. Pizza Time wouldn't give up and scored 2 runs in the bottom half of the first to cut the lead to 3. 2nd inning saw great pitching from Bert "Ron Guidry" Keating and great defensive plays by the outfield of Greg Miller, Joe Wassweiler, Reggie Dolson and Donnie Black. Bottom of the 2nd, Pizza Time scratched out a run, to cut the lead to 2 runs. Top of the 3rd, MVR pushed a run across the board and made it 6-3 going into the bottom half. Tony Janicik would start it off with a single, Frank Navarra would move the runner up, Joe Wassweiler would get on by E4, then Reggie "Roberto Clemente" Dolson would Crush a 3 run Home run over the left field fence. Then three straight hits would push across two more runs giving PT 8-6 lead heading into the 4th inning. Great defense shut down the heart of MVR's offense, led by SS Roger "Derek Jeter" Merritt, 3B Joe "Alex Rodriguez" Karam, 2B Charlie "Willie Randolph" Melia, SF Tony "Alfonso Soriano" Janicik , EH Ray "The Hitting Machine" Smith, and C Frank "Mike Piazza" Navarra. The bottom of the 4th saw PT put two more runs on the scoreboard, PT 10-6. But in the top of 5th MVR scored 4 runs to tie the game up at 10-10 heading bottom half. PT would answer right back with 2 more runs taking the lead back PT12-10. Again top of 6th, MVR came right back and took a one run lead 13-12. But once again PT answered the bell with one run to tie the score at 13-13. The top of the 7th would see one of the greatest catches by Greg "Lou Piniella" Miller, with a full out sprint down the left field line and then reached out and ended the inning. In the bottom of the 7th PT couldn't score a run because of Great Defensives Plays by John Ostuni and Lou Rossi DP. Top of the 8th saw another great outfielder catch. Joe "Hideki Matsui" Wassweiler made a sliding shoestring catch to end the 8th with an MVR runner on 3rd. Bottom of the 8th saw Greg Miller score from 3rd base on a single from Donnie "Babe Ruth" Black scoring the winning run making the score Pizza Time 14- Mountain View Ranch 13. Great Defense from Pizza Time, all around great game neither team gave up. HITTING Joe Wassweiler 2-4 2runs,1rbi, Reggie Dolson 4-4 3runs, 4rbi's, Greg Miller 2-3 1run, 2rbi's. Roger Merritt 1-2, 1run, 1rbi. Ray Smith 1-3 1run, 1rbi. Chris "Billy Martin" Edwards 3-4 1run,1rbi. Charlie Melia 2-4 1run, 1rbi. Donnie Black 4-4 2runs, 2rbi's. Joe Karam 2-4 1run, 1rbi. Bert Keating hit the ball hard all day, Tony Janicik 2-3 1run, Frank Navarra with a walk.
The draft will be held in early March. Once the rosters are finalized, they will be updated on the website.