Jack Gardner strike a two-run double and scored on Casey Boudreau’s singular in a fifth inning as Shrewsbury (Massachusetts) Post 97 rallied for a 3-2 feat over a Bangor Coffee News Comrades in an rejecting diversion of a American Legion round Northeast informal contest Saturday.
The game, creatively scheduled for a 10:30 a.m. start, didn’t start until late afternoon since of severe continue and was condensed from 9 innings to 7 innings after being changed to an auxiliary margin in a area.
Shrewsbury, now 3-1 in a regional, modernized to a final day of a eight-team, double-elimination event. The Massachusetts group faces Stamford, Connecticut, in a 1 p.m. rejecting diversion Sunday, with a leader to face dominant Braintree, Massachusetts, for a right to allege to a American Legion World Series that starts Aug. 10 in Shelby, North Carolina.
Bangor Coffee News finished a summer with a 20-8 record that includes a 9-4 postseason finish overall, a third state championship in 4 years and a 2-2 bid and fourth-place finish during a regional.
“I consider in years past you’d get down here and a kids would play unequivocally tough though we only knew in a behind of your mind there were a integrate of teams that were substantially most forward of us,” pronounced Bangor Coffee News manager Dave Morris, whose group gathered a 1.80 warranted run normal and a tournament-best .344 batting normal during a Northeast regional.
“We didn’t feel that approach this year. We unequivocally competed with a other teams, we unequivocally matched adult well. Whether a pitch-(count) order was an equalizer for any team, we don’t know, though there was nobody conduct and shoulders forward of us.”
Bangor Coffee News jumped out to an early 2-0 lead on Shrewsbury pitcher Adam Twitchell.
The Comrades scored an unmerited run in a second inning as Zach Cowperthwaite walked, Zach Murray singled, and Cowperthwaite scored when Zach Ireland’s grounder to second was misplayed.
The Comrades afterwards got a solo home run from Zone 1 actor of a year Ethan Stoddard in a third inning.
But Twitchell close Bangor Coffee News out a rest of a way, and Shrewsbury got all a runs it indispensable to take a lead in a fifth inning.
After a travel and a singular by David Turco, Gardner bloody his game-tying double to a opening in left-center field. Two batters later, Boudreau rapped a pointy two-out singular off a shortstop’s glove to expostulate home Gardner from second bottom with a go-ahead run.
Bangor did bluster in a seventh inning as Ryan Brookings singled and was sacrificed to second by Tyler Parke, though Twitchell late a subsequent dual batters to finish a game.
Stoddard homered and singled for Bangor Coffee News, while Cowperthwaite doubled and Brookings, Ben Crichton and Noah Missbrenner any singled.
Cowperthwaite pitched a initial 6 innings for a Comrades, with Missbrenner operative a scoreless seventh.
“We done some good plays a whole game,” Morris said. “It was a same approach for both sides. We strike a round during people, they strike balls during us, and we had a event during a end.”