Everybody
has a hand
in 17-2 win
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DENVILLE - All 15 players on the Denville Post 390 American Legion junior baseball team's roster had a hand in the scoring Wednesday (June 8) evening as unbeaten Denville pounded out 15 hits - including six for extra bases - to beat Mount Olive, 17-2, in a Morris-Sussex American Legion Junior Baseball League game played at Veterans Memorial Field off Zeek Road here in the township.
The win - Denville's sixth in as many starts - went to Gary Basile (2-0), who gave up four hits and no runs while striking out three and walking two in four innings of the mercy-rule shortened game. Steve Rosen pitched the fifth and final inning and was touched for two runs on two hits.
Denville, which scored all its runs in the first three innings, jumped out to a 6-0 first-inning lead with Brian Stagg singling in two runs, Steve Rosen doubling in a run and Vinnie Oliveri, Christian Shuey and Bobby Hanson each adding RBI singles.
Jackson Baird's two-run triple and an RBI triple by C.J. Abrahamsen highlighted Denville's five-run second-inning outburst and RBI singles by Basile and Paul Shapiro were the big hits in a 6-run third inning.
Baird finished 2-for-2 with a triple, double, three RBIs and two runs scored; Rosen was 2-for-4 with two doubles, two RBIs and a run scored; Shuey was 2-for-2 with two RBIs and two runs scored; Abrahamsen was 2-for-2 with an RBI and two runs scored; and Brian Stagg was 2-for-2 with an RBI.
Also, Oliveri finished 1-for-1 with a double, walk and a run scored; James Aliotta was 1-for-1 with run scored; Nick Dispenziere was 1-for-2 with a double and a run scored; Basile was 1-for-2 with an RBI and a run scored; Bobby Hanson was 1-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored; Paul Shapiro was 1-for-1 with a run and an RBI; Robert Sinegra and Vinnie Opalewski each drove in a run., Danny DaFonseca walked and scored a run; and T.J. Nemeth scored a run.
Denville is off until Saturday, June 12, when the junior team travels to Kinnelon for a 10 a.m. doubleheader against Kinnelon.
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C.J. slam,
7 RBIs
back
Aliotta
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DENVILLE - James Aliotta pitched a two-hitter and C.J. Abrahamsen's grand slam and seven RBIs sparked a 10-hit attack as the unbeatean Denville American Legion Post 390 junior baseball team beat Musconetcong, 13-1, in a five-inning Morris-Sussex American Legion Junior Baseball League game played at Lenpae Valley High School on Monday, June 7.
Aliotta (1-0) gave up a run (earned) on two singles and a walk while striking out four in pitching a five-inning complete game.
Abrahamsen singled in a run in Denville's two-run first inning, hit his bases-loaded home run in a seven-run second inning and doubled home two more runs in a four-run third inning as Denville improved its early-season record to 5-0.
Jackson Baird was 2-for-3 with two doubles, four RBIs and three runs scored. He doubled home a run in the first inning, walked with the bases loaded in the second for his second RBI, and completed his four-RBI day with a two-run double in the third inning.
James Aliotta was 1-for-1 with an RBI, two walks and three runs scored; Steve Rosen was 2-for-3 with two runs scored; Bob Hanson was 1-for-1 with a walk and a run scored; Vince Opelewski was 1-for-3 with a double; and Christian Shuey was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded for an RBI.
Denville's next game is a 6 p.m. home game at Veterans Memorial Field off Zeek Road on Tuesday, June 8, at 6 p.m. Gary Basile (1-0) is scheduled to start on the mound for Denville.
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Shuey's saves key sweep of Montville
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DENVILLE - Bill Tonero has found his closer for the 2010 season.
His name is Christian Shuey, but if you know him as well as his teammates know him, you can call him "Bulldog."
Shuey played for the Morris Knolls High School freshman team this past spring. He is 15 years old, stands 5-foot-7 and checks in at 185 pounds on his light days and can bench 275 pounds.
He throws right and bats left and did both very well on Saturday, June 5, when Tonero's Denville Post 390 American Legion junior baseball team took a pair of one-run decisions - 6-5 in the first game and 12-11 in the second - from Montville in a Morris-Sussex American Legion Junior League doubleheader played at Montville High School.
Shuey got the save in both games and went 3-for-3 with an RBI in the first game and was 3-3 with two RBIs and two runs scored in the second game.
Shuey relieved starter and winner Jackson Baird (1-0) in the bottom of the fifth in the first game and retired all four batters he faced, striking out two.
In the second game, he came in with bases loaded and no outs after Montville had scored three times to cut the Denville lead to two runs at 12-10. Shuey gave up a single to the first batter he faced to make the scored 12-11 but then got the next three outs on a fly ball to short center, a strikeout and an unassisted bouncer to third baseman Vince Opalewski to end the game.
"I've put him in three tough spots so far and he has come through every time," Tonero says. "He throws a good fastball, curve and change and throws strikes and also swings a good bat ... he's a line-drive hitter and has shown some power.
"I am really impressed with this kid ... he is poised beyond his years, has a solid knowledge of the game and his baseball instincts are very good."
Denville (4-0) took a 1-0 first-inning lead in the opener when Vinnie Oliveri tripled and James Aliotta followed with a single. In the third, Oliveri reached on a two-base outfield error, stole third and scored on another error.
Montville got a run in the bottom of the fourth to close to within a run at 2-1, but Denville answered right back with a four-run flurry in the top of the fifth.
Singles by Vinnie Opalewski and Danny DaFonseca put runners on first and third. After a strikeout, Oliveri forced DaFonseca at second for the second out and Aliotta followed with a two-run double. Baird walked to put runners on first and second and Shuey followed with an RBI single and Baird scored when the outfield relay into the infield was misplayed.
Montville came back with two runs in the bottom of the fifth and another in the sixth to close to within a run before Shuey came in and shut the door the rest of the way for his first save of the day.
Montville opened the second game with three runs in the top of the first and 23 runs, 22 hits and seven errors later, Denville had another one-run victory and Shuey had another save.
Denville took the lead with a four-run second inning highlighted by Steve Rosen's three-run triple only to have Montville tie the core at 4-4 with a singleton in the top of the third.
Denville took the lead for good with three runs in the bottom of the bottom of the third when Aliotta tripled, Baird single him in, Shuey drove in Baird with a double and then scored on Robert Sinegra's single.
A five-run outburst in the bottom of the fourth gave Denville a seemingly safe 12-4 lead.
Mike Regianni opened the fourth with a triple and Nick Dispenziere and DaFonseca walked to load the bases. Aliotta drove in two runs with a single and, after Baird was hit by a pitch, Shuey's sacrifice fly drove in DaFonseca with the third run of the inning and then two additional runs scored when C.J. Abrahamsen reached on a fielding error.
Denville needed every one of those runs as Montville scored seven runs in it last three at-bats and had bases loaded with the scored 12-11 when Shuey got the last three outs of the game for his second save of the day.
Aliotta, Baird and Shuey each got two hits to pace Denville's 12-hit attack. Aliotta was 2-for-2 with two RBIs and two runs scored; Baird was 2-for-3 with an RBI and three runs scored; and Shuey finished -2-for-2 with two RBIs and two runs scored.
Nick Dispenziere was 1-for-3 with a run scored; Sinegra finished 1-for-2 with an RBI; Rosen was 1-for-3 with his three-run triple; Regianni was 1-for-3 with a triple and a run scored; Brian Stagg was 1-for-3; and Paul Shapiro finished 1-for-1.
Abrahamsen (1-0) started an got the win, allowing five runs on seven hits while striking out five and walking three in five innings of work.
Denville returns to action on Tuesday, June 8, with a 6 p.m. game against Mount Olive at Veterans Memorial Field off Zeek Road in the township.
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Oliveri, Baird
share a 'save'
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DENVILLE - Credit Jackson Baird and Vincent Oliveri with a "shared save" in Denville's 10-9 six-inning victory over Sparta in a Morris-Sussex American Legion Junior Baseball League game played at Veterans Memorial Field off Zeek Road on Thursday, June 3.
Oliveri got his part of the "save" when his walk-off RBI single in the bottom of the sixth inning capped a four-run rally in the game that was shortened an inning by darkness.
Baird's portion of the "save" came two innings earlier when Baird promised Denville manager Bill Tonero they would come back from a 9-5 deficit that, as Tonero tells it ... "was my fault."
It's best to let Tonero take it from here.
"T.J. Nemeth was pitching and he was struggling," Tonero said the day after the game. "Now, C.J. didn't pitch much this spring because he was coming off an elbow injury ... he got cleared to pitch late in the high school season and he threw a handful of innings for the Morris Knolls junior varsity. T.J. is a good pitcher and he's going to help us a lot ... but he's a little rusty now.
"Just like I was a little rusty in my managing in the top of the fourth when Sparta scored four runs. They had just scored two runs on a two-out double by their No. 3 hitter to take a 7-5 lead and I'm sitting there thinking whether or not we should walk their cleanup hitter Rob McNally, a good hitter who played right field for Pope John varsity this spring.
"I'm just about to say something to my coaches when T.J. throws his first pitch and McNally cranks it over the fence and we're now down 9-5.
"I go out to take out T.J. for Christian Shuey and, as Shuey is warming up, I'm telling the infielders that if we lose this game, it's my fault for not thinking on my feet quickly enough and walking McNally. That's when Baird told me not to worry about it, that they would come back and win the game.
"We've got your back, Coach,' he told me."
Denville got one run back in the bottom of the fifth on an RBI single by Steve Rosen and then, after being told by the umpires at the beginning of the inning that the sixth would be their last inning because it was getting dark, won the game with a four-run outburst.
Trailing 9-6, Baird opened the sixth with a single but was forced at second by Bobby Hanson. Robert Sinegra walked and C.J. Abrahamsen followed with a two-run double to cut the lead to a run and then scored the tying run when Shuey lined a single of the Sparta pitcher's leg that went out into left field.
Ryan Sweeney went in to pinch run for Shuey and advanced to second when Paul Shapiro followed with a groundball single up the middle. Both runners moved up on a wild pitch and, after a strikeout for the second out, Oliveri came through with a line single down the right field line to bring in Sweeney with the winning run.
"I told the kids after the game that they really showed me a lot coming back that way," Tonero said. "They knew they wouldn't get another at-bat ... they really showed me something."
Sparta had scored twice in the first inning and then took a 5-0 lead with three second-inning runs before Denville got on the board with a run in the second on Sinegra's RBI groundout.
Denville tied the game at 5-5 in the bottom of the third on Oliveri's two-run double, an RBI single by Baird and a sac fly by Abrahamsen.
Baird finished the game 3-for-3 with two runs scored; Oliveri was 2-for-4 with three RBIs, a double, and a run scored; Abrahamsen was 2-for-3 with a double, 2 RBIs and two runs scored; Shuey was 2-for-4 with an RBI; Rosen was 1-for-3 with an RBI; and Paul Shapiro was 1-for-1 with a run scored.
Shuey got the win, pitching 2.1 innings of three-hit, shutout ball with two strikeouts and a walk.
And, of course, Baird and Oliveri share the "save" for Denville ... for "saving" their coach.
Notes: Denville is on the road Saturday, June 5, against Montville for a noon doubleheader at Montville High School ... Baird is scheduled to pitch the first game while Abrahamsen gets the nod for the second game ... Denville is 2-0 and Montville is 3-0.
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Baird's 4-for-4 lifts
Denville in opener
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DENVILLE - Jackson Baird went 4-for-4 and drove in three runs and Gary Basile and T.J. Nemeth combined on a five-inning one-hitter when Denville shut down Mountain Lakes, 11-0, in a Morris-Sussex American Legion Junior Baseball League opening day game played at Mountain Lakes High School on Tuesday, June 1.
Basile went the first four innings and struck out six and walked none and allowed but one hit, a one-out third-inning single by Tim Bowles. Nemeth pitched a 1-2-3 fifth inning with one strikeout.
Denville scored single runs in the first three innings before breaking open the game with a six-run outburst in the top of the fourth inning.
Vinnie Oliveri had the big hit of the inning, a two-run triple. James Aliotta squeezed in a run; Robert Sinegra and Baird each had RBI singles; and C.J. Abrahamsen doubled in a run.
Baird, who also doubled and tripled and scored two runs, led Denville's 15-hit attack.
Sinegra finished 3-for-3 with two RBIs; Oliveri was 2-for-4 with a triple, three RBIs and two runs scored; Aliotta was 1-for-2 with two RBIs and three runs scored; Christian Shuey was 1-for-3 with a run scored; Nick Dispenziere was 1-for-1 with an RBI; Ryan Sweeney was 1-for-1 with a run scored; Vincent Opalewski was 1-for-1 with an RBI; and Abrahamsen finished 1-for-4 with an RBI double for Denville.
Denville's next game is scheduled for Thursday, June 3, against Sparta at Veterans Memorial Field off Zeek Road. Nemeth will be the Denville starting pitcher in the 6 p.m. contest, according to manager Bill Tonero.
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THE 2009 POST-SEASON
Denville falls to Mt. Laurel
in Mid-Atlantic region final
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DENVILLE - The season didn't end on a happy note for the Denville American Legion junior baseball team.
But the team certainly has to be happy about its season.
A season that opened with a lot of question marks on June 1 came to a conclusion Sunday (August 16) with an 8-4 loss to Mount Laurel in the championship game of the 17U Mid-Atlantic Region American Legion Junior Baseball Tournament at Memorial Field in Linden.
Denville never could recover from five unearned runs in the bottom of the second inning and its fine 29-6 season ended one game short of a regional championship.
"It's a tough way to lose, there's no question about it," manager Bill Tonero was saying over the phone after the game. "It all happened in the space of two pitches -- two hard-hit balls that we usually handle that we didn't today.
"We're all disappointed, sure ... but these kids have nothing to be ashamed of because what they accomplished this year was just fantastic."
One goal that the team set and met during the season was the New Jersey State Championship, a mission they accomplished with a 4-0 run to put them into the eight-team regional championship.
"There is no World Series in the juniors, so we set our sights on winning the state title ... that was the 'World Series' to us," Tonero explains. "We came into this tournament figuring every extra game we got to play was a bonus and we got to play right up to the final day.
"What can you say? These kids had a fantastic summer."
Denville took a 1-0 lead in the top of the second when Jackson Baird led off the inning with a double and scored on a single by Mike Jones.
Mount Laurel, which finished its season with a 31-2 record that included a loss to Denville in the state finals last week, took the lead for good in the second inning when three hits, a walk, a sacrifice and two Denville errors led to five unearned runs.
Denville scored a run in the fourth when Baird led off with his second double of the game and scored on a single by James Aliotta.
Mount Laurel made it 7-2 with two runs in the bottom of the inning, scoring both runs on tournament MVP Brian Clayton's two-run homer.
Denville scored its final two runs in the top of the sixth when Baird drew a leadoff walk, Jones singled, Aliotta doubled in one run and Stevo Rosen singled in the second run of the inning.
Baird finished 3-for-3 with two doubles, a walk and three runs scored; Aliotta was 2-for-4 with a double and two RBIs; Jones finished 2-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored; Rosen was 1-for-3 with an RBI; and Justin Masino was 1-for-2 with a walk.
"I told the kids after the game how proud I was of what we had accomplished this season," Tonero says. "We had a lot of new faces show up on June 1 and I had no idea how well we would do ... and we ended up one win away from 30 wins and one win away from winning the region title.
"They battled back nice from the week when we lost four of our games ... they won a state championship ... and they got to play right up to and including the final day.
"Now we have to deal with waking up tomorrow and having no more baseball."
NOTES: Tonero loses six players to the senior team because of age next year and returns 12 ... Tonero said the temperatures were closing in on the 95-degree mark in Linden ... Clayton got three of Mount Laurel's nine hits, finishing 3-for-3 with a walk ...
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Golden hurls 2-hitter to put
Denville in Region title game
DENVILLE - Pat Golden brought his A-game and his teammates brought their bats.
That combination was just what Denville Post 390 needed to beat the Plymouth Rox of Massachusetts, 10-0, Saturday (August 15) night to reach the championship game of the American Legion Junior Baseball Mid-Atlantic Region Tournament being played at Memorial Field in Linden this weekend.
Denville faces Mount Laurel today (Sunday, August 16) at 2 p.m. for the title in a rematch of the New Jersey state championship game won by Denville, 4-2, one week ago yesterday on Saturday, August 8.
Jackson Baird, a right-hander, will pitch for Denville in the championship game.
Golden held the Plymouth Rox to two hits while striking out seven and walking but one in the game shortened to five innings because of the tournament's 10-run mercy rule.
Denville made the most of its seven hits as the winners took a 4-0 lead after three and then put the game out of reach with a six-run outburst in the bottom of the fourth inning.
But the story of the game was Golden, a 5-10 right-hander who was 5-1 during the regular season. Golden held the Rox to singles in the first and fourth innings as the Rox had only three base runners in the game.
"Pat was about as good as he can be tonight," Denville manager Bill Tonero was saying over the phone after the game. "He had a live fastball and his slider and curve were also working very well.
"He has always had good control and he was spotting his pitches well. Tonight, his out pitch was his curveball -- he was really breaking if off."
Golden got all the runs he needed in the second inning when Denville scored three times.
James Aliotta and Bobby Hanson drew walks to open the inning and both moved up on Stevo Rosen's sacrifice bunt. Jake Moran followed with a two-run triple to right-center and, after Justin Masino walked, Rob Drexel singled to send Moran home and give Denville a 3-0 lead.
Denville made it 4-0 in the bottom of the third when Aliotta hit a one-out triple over the center fielder's head and, after Hanson walked, Rosen followed with a suicide squeeze to bring in Aliotta.
In the big six-run fourth, a double by Moran between walks to Sinegra and Masino loaded the bases.
Drexel drove in the first run with an infield single; Baird drew a bases-loaded walk; Mike Jones' infield single brought in the third run; Aliotta followed with a two-run single and, after Hanson walked to reload the bases, Sinegra drew a bases-loaded walk to drive in the game's final run.
Drexel, Moran and Aliotta accounted for seven of Denville's eight hits as Drexel finished 3-for-3 with two RBIs and a run scored; Moran was 2-for-4 with a double, triple, two RBIs and two runs scored; and Aliotta was 2-for-2 with a walk, two RBIs and two runs scored.
NOTES: Mount Laurel beat Connecticut, 14-4, to earn its spot in the championship game ... Denville is shooting for victory No. 30 today to go along with its five losses during regular- and post-season play ... Connecticut and Massachusetts are scheduled to play an 11 a.m. consolation game before the two Jersey teams square off at 2 p.m. ...
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Denville opens Regions
with a 5-4 win over Maine
DENVILLE - Bill Tonero will be the first to tell you that had his Denville American Legion Junior Baseball players made four errors in a game at one point in the regular season, they would have lost.
But that was then and this is now as Denville, the state champs in the Junior 17U division of American Legion baseball, overcame a four-error performance to hold off Maine, 5-4, in an opening-round game of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Tournament played at Memorial Field in Linden on Friday (August 14) night. "I told the kids after the game that we had been winning on pitching and defense and we won this one on pitching and heart," Tonero was saying over the phone the morning after the game. "They just battled the entire game. "When you're playing well, you win these types of game. We had a bad week during the regular season when we lost three in a row ... if we played like we did last night during that stretch, we would have lost." Jackson Baird did more than his best to keep Denville from losing as he finished the game going 2-for-3 with a home run and four RBIs. Denville, one of four teams left in the eight-team tournament, plays its second game tonight (against Massachusetts) at 7:00 in the second game of a semifinal doubleheader that starts at 4 p.m. The championship game is scheduled for tomorrow (Sunday, Aug. 16) at 2 p.m. following an 11 a.m. consolation game for third place between today's losing teams. All games are at Memorial Field in Linden. Rob Drexel threw a complete-game six-hitter for Denville, striking out seven Maine batters and giving up only two walks. Two of the four runs scored against him were unearned. Denville, held to six hits by 6-3 right hander Jacob Nichols, took a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning when Drexel singled with two outs and scored on Jackson Baird's booming home run to straightaway center field. "It was a bomb, an absolute bomb ... it disappeared into the night," Tonero says. "I saw it go out and then I lost it until I saw it drop straight down back onto the field. "Somebody told me later it hit halfway up the light tower in center ... it's 380 to dead center so that ball would have traveled well over 420 feet - easy." Maine got an unearned run in the top of the third on a walk, single and an error. Denville completed its scoring for the day with a three-run flurry in the third inning when Jake Moran led off with a walk, Justin Masino singled and Drexel followed with a sacrifice bunt that was thrown away, allowing Moran to score on the error. With Masino on third and Drexel on second because of the overthrow, Baird followed with a single to score both baserunners, giving Baird his four RBIs for the game. Maine got two runs in the top of the fourth when the first three batters reached Drexel for doubles. "They hit three rockets ... boom, boom, boom!" Tonero said. "Then we made another error and to give them runners on first and third with no out, but Drexel pitched his way out of it." Indeed, he did. Drexel followed with three strikouts - the first swinging, the second looking and the third swinging - and Denville was out of its jam. "That was good pitching with a lot of heart," Tonero says. "That was huge for us." Maine scored another earned run in the top of the fifth and threatened in the seventh with back-to-back one-out singles but left fielder Mike Jones threw out a Maine runner at third when he tried to go first-to-third on the second single. "Jones threw a perfect strike to Masino at third," Tonero says. "They had him by 10 feet." The next batter hit a towering fly ball to left that Jones caught and the game was over. NOTES: The other two hits for Denville came when Rob Sinegra singled in the fourth and Jones singled in the fifth ... Pat Golden will start for Denville tonight against Plymouth Rox Post 40 from Massachusetts ... "Must be something in the water up there," Tonero says, referring to Maine's team. "Their kids towered over my kids ... it's not often you see a 6-foot, 4-inch second baseman."
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Denville Captures State
Junior Legion Title
DENVILLE - There will be more baseball this summer for the players, coaches and followers of the Denville Junior American Legion baseball team.
The team from Post 390 here in the township made sure of that by beating Mount Laurel, 4-2, in the championship game of the Junior American Legion State Tournament at Linden's Memorial Park on Saturday, Aug. 8, after gaining a berth in the championship game with a 3-2 victory over Haddon Heights in a semifinal game the night before that also was played at Memorial Park.
The weekend victories put Denville into the 17U American Legion Mid-Atlantic Region Tournament, an eight-team competition that returns this weekend to Linden's Memorial Park.
Denville opens play Friday, August 14, with a 7 p.m. game against the Maine state champs.
Denville manager Bill Tonero will be the first to tell you that his team made it to the Regional Tournament with team defense.
"Remarkable defense ... crazy defense ... unbelievable defense," Tonero was saying from his cell phone this Sunday afternoon, the day after his team won the state title. "We made some incredible defensive plays the past two days ... we're playing better defense right now than at any time during the season.
"You can say we are definitely peaking at the right time."
Denville came up with its two biggest defensive plays in the season on back-to-back pitches in Friday night's 3-2 win over Haddon Heights.
Haddon Heights loaded the bases with no outs in the sixth and the score tied at 2-2 when Tonero asked for a timeout and made a trip to the mound to go over defensive strategy.
"I told the guys to play the infield in and go for the force at the plate and I didn't want to see any lollipop throws -- I wanted them to gun it home and then gun it to first," Tonero explains. "It was a risky call, but I didn't want to give up any runs at all."
On the next pitch, starting pitcher Rob Drexel fielded a one-hopper back to the mound, threw to catcher Steve Rosen for the force at home and Rosen fired to Jackson Baird at first for the double play. On the very next pitch, with runners now on second and third, Drexel caught a scorching line drive six inches off the ground as he completed his follow through.
Two pitches ... three outs.
In the seventh, with Haddon Heights runners on first and second and no outs, Rosen fired a pickoff attempt to second that shortstop Rob Sinegra short-hopped and slapped the tag on the runner, taking the wind out of the sails of another rally.
And in the championship game against Mount Laurel, Denville starting pitcher Baird picked a runner off first on a first-and-third situation, keeping Mount Laurel from scoring more than the two runs they got that inning.
"You see the pitcher fake a pickoff to third and then fire to first a lot ... but how many times have you see it work?" Tonero says. "It was just a case of how unbelievable our defense has been working recently ... everything we've done we've done right."
Denville's pitching has been outstanding in the post-season, too, allowing just nine runs in the four state tournament victories.
Baird pitched a complete-game two-hitter in winning the title game and Drexel and Andrew Manello held Haddon Heights to two runs and six hits with Manello getting the win in relief when Sinegra singled and, and after working his way to third base, scored on a wild pitch.
In the title game, Denville took a 2-0 lead when Baird and Mike Jones singled to start the second inning and James Aliotta's sacrifice bunt was thrown down the right field line by the pitcher and both Baird and Jones scored on the play. After Mount Laurel tied the score in the top of the fifth, Denville regained the lead and scored the game's final two runs in the bottom of the inning. Rosen reached on a one-out single only to get forced at second by Sinegra. Jake Moran followed with a two-strike, two-out triple to the right-center gap and, when Jason Masino followed by beating out an infield single, Denville had regained its two-run lead. NOTES: Denville reached the final four of the state tourney by beating Livingston, 5-1, and Lincroft, 5-4 ... Denville was 3-0 in winning the District 1 Tournament, outscoring its three opponents 29-3 with all the games being played at Gardner Field here in the township ... Sinegra and Moran each had two hits in the win over Haddon Heights with Moran again coming through with a clutch RBI triple ...
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Denville Post 390 Junior (17U) Baseball
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Players: Carl Abrahamsen, James Aliotta, Rocco Aliotta, Jackson Baird, Gary Basile, Daniel DaFonseca, Nick Dispenziere, Bobby Hanson, T.J. Nemeth, Vincent Oliveri, Vincent Opalewski, Michael Reggiani, Steve Rosen, Paul Shapiro, Robert Sinegra, Christian Shuey, Brian Stagg and Ryan Sweeney.
Head Coach: Bill Tonero. Assistant Coaches: Bill Rosen and George Aliotta.
Schedule: June 1, at Mountain Lakes, 6 p.m.; 3, x-Sparta, 6 p.m.; 5, at Montville (2), noon; 8, x-Mount Olive, 6 p.m.; 10, at Musconnetcong, 6 p.m.; 12, at Kinnelon (2), 10 a.m.; 13, x-Bumper Game, 5 p.m.; 19, x-Parsippany (2), noon; 20, at Mount Morris, 5 p.m.; 22, x-Mendham, 6 p.m.; 24, x-Roxbury, 6 p.m.; 26, two games - Pequannock, noon, and x-Roselle, 4 p.m.; 27, at Bumper Game, 5 p.m.; 29, x-Randolph, 6 p.m. July 3, at Hamilton Post 31 Tournament (2), TBA; 4, at Hamilton Post 31 Tournament (2), TBA; 5, Hamilton Post 31 Tournament rain date; 8, at Flor-Mad, 6 p.m.; 10, x-Morristown (2), noon.
x-home games played at Veterans Memorial Field off Zeek Road in Denville.
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On All Major Home Appliances
Bill Tonero, owner
P.O. Box 446 Mt. Tabor, NJ
Phones: 973-625-2026 1-800-648-7475 Fax: 973-825-1839
Specializing in GE, Hotpoint, Whirlpool, Kenmore, Caloric, Tappan, Maytag and Jenn Air
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