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LAWRENCE TWP. — The Notre Dame High varsity baseball team stopped a two-game slide by posting a 10-0 win over the Lawrenceville School Saturday in the Lawrence Township Champions Cup played at Lawrence High.
Junior southpaw Joe Lech pitched a four-hit shutout with 10 strikeouts to lead the Irish.
Mike Shipula doubled and drove in three runs, while Rocco Valentino went 3-for-3 with a run scored and two runs batted in.
Anthony Woo was 2-for-2 to account for half of the Big Red’s offense.
Notre Dame (9-4) 113 41 — 10 12 0
Lawrenceville(3-7) 000 00 — 0 4 4
2B: Shipula (ND); 3B: Liberto (ND); RBIs: Bonko, Canale, Shipula 3, Duffy 2, Valentino 2 (ND).
WP — Lech (2-0); LP — MTrucano (2-3).
LAWRENCEVILLE 2, LAWRENCE 1
LAWRENCE TWP. — The Big Red broke Lawrence’s four-game winning streak in the final game of the Lawrence Township Champions Cup behind the pitching of Gray Devine and Chris Trucano.
Cardinals pitchers Connor Willever and Aiden Crowley kept the game just as tight before L’ville scored a run in the top of the sixth to win it.
Anthony Woo stayed hot by going 3-for-3 and knocking in both of the runs for head coach Steve LaRochelle’s club.
Josh Vichroski doubled and scored Lawrence’s run in the second inning.
Even with Lawrenceville’s win, the Cardinals still claimed the Lawrence Twp. Champions Cup by virtue of their three runs allowed in two games yesterday.
Lawrenceville(4-7) 000 101 0 — 2 4 1
Lawrence (11-4) 010 000 0 — 1 4 0
2B: Pintimalli (Lv), Vichroski (L); RBIs: Woo 2 (Lv).
WP — Devine (2-0); LP — ACrowley (1-1).
REGULAR SEASON
ROBBINSVILLE 4, MANALAPAN 2
ROBBINSVILLE — Josh Yoo picked up the first mound win of his career with relief help from Ben Deane as the Ravens got past the Braves.
Johnny Fowler led R’ville’s offense by going 3-for-3 with a double, a run scored and three runs batted in.
Manalapan (5-6) 000 020 0 — 2 7 0
Robbinsville(8-4-1) 220 000 x — 4 9 1
2B: Fowler, Schwartz (R); RBIs: Fowler 3, Schwartz (R).
WP — Yoo (1-1); LP — Graham; S — Deane (1).
HADDONFIELD 12, HAMILTON WEST 4
HADDONFIELD — The Bulldawgs scored eight times in the bottom of the sixth to break away from the Hornets.
Luke Radoslovich had two hits and three RBIs to lead Hamilton West’s offense.
HamiltonWest(6-7) 000 130 0 — 4 5 0
Haddonfield (7-4) 210 018 x — 12 15 2
2B: Keenan, ARoss, Clarke (Hd); RBIs: Maddalena, Radoslovich 3 (HW), Keenan 2, ARoss 2, Clarke 3, Rowe, Bowman, Solak, Nelson 2 (Hd).
WP — Gayer; LP — Gutierrez (2-1).
HUN 5, IMMACULATA 0
PRINCETON — The Raiders picked up their 10th win by stopping the Spartans behind the shutout pitching of Kerrick Shannon, Sam Amodio and Ben Herriott at Wilf Family Field.
John Rossman had two hits with a double and two RBIs for Hun, while Antonio Destribats hit a solo home run.
Immaculata(6-4) 000 000 0 — 0 6 2
Hun (10-3) 002 201 x — 5 6 0
2B: Rossman, Newsome (H); HR: Destribats (H); RBIs: Rossman 2, JStaples, Destribats (H).
WP — Shannon (2-0); LP — Sikorski.
SOMERVILLE 9, PDS 5
PRINCETON — A late rally came up short as the Pioneers handed the Panthers their first setback in three games.
Gavin Ross doubled, drove in a run and scored another for Princeton Day School.
Somerville(5-5) 302 301 0 — 9 7 1
PDS (3-10) 000 200 3 — 5 5 4
2B: GRoss (PDS); RBIs: Fullman, GRoss, Filis (PDS).
WP — n/a; LP — Kelemen (0-3).
HILL 12, PEDDIE 2
HIGHTSTOWN — The Falcons jumped to a 2-0 lead in the first, then saw the Blues rally to win the game by the 10-run rule in five innings at William M. Thompson Field.
Jonathan Stizza had two hits, and Jaden Heble drove in the runs for Peddie.
Hill (8-3) 002 55 — 12 10 1
Peddie (2-8) 200 00 — 2 7 3
2B: White, Neill (H); RBIs: Neill 2, Muto 2, McCusker 2, Sheward (H), JHeble 2 (P).
WP — JMoore; LP — Buchner (1-3).
PENNINGTON 8, BLAIR ACADEMY 6
PENNINGTON — A pair of runs in the bottom of the sixth inning helped the Red Hawks snap a two-game slide by defeating the Bucs at Heritage Field.
Caden Burns got the win in relief, had two hits and knocked in two runs.
Blair Academy (5-3) 000 240 0 — 6 10 3
Pennington (12-2) 500 102 x — 8 4 4
2B: Itakura-Prepscios (P); RBIs: Itakura-Prepscios, Burns 2, Hyndman (P).
WP — Burns (3-0); LP — n/a.
POSTPONEMENTS
Inclement weather did affect some games Saturday.
Princeton’s game with South River originally switched sites before getting tentatively switched to 4 p.m. Tuesday, May 13 at Valley Road Field.
Steinert’s game with North Brunswick at Community Park as part of the already postponed Autism Awareness Challenge was postponed again.
Hopewell Valley’s game at Warren Hills was canceled as was Delran’s Papa Bear Tournament, in which Ewing was participating.
AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL TRYOUTS
Lawrence Legion Post 414 Baseball will be holding tryouts at 9 a.m. Sunday May 4 and Sunday, May 18 at Mike Pezzicola Field (Central Park on Eggerts Crossing Road) in Lawrence. Boys ages 14-18 who live in Lawrence or attend Lawrence High, the Lawrenceville School, Notre Dame High, Ewing High and Hopewell Valley High are eligible. For more information, contact Post 414 manager Jason Zegarski at JZegarski12@verizon.net.
