Wayne wins to close out regular season BASEBALL
Ashton Raines, Santino Nave and Will Peiffer made sure Wayne finished the Delco League regular season on a strong note.
The trio combined on a three-hitter to lead the defending champions to a 5-1 victory over Marple Newtown in the regular-season finale Sunday.
Raines allowed one hit and struck out two in two innings. Nave fanned two in three hitless innings, and Peiffer surrendered two hits, one earned run and whiffed three in two innings. Peiffer also had a double and a run scored.
Dan Williams paced the offense with two RBIs. Tommy Jacobs and Luke Mutz drove in one run each.
David Judge hit a solo homer in the bottom of the seventh inning for the Black Sox to spoil the shutout bid.
Wayne closed out the season with a six-game winning streak and a 10-game unbeaten streak to grab the No. 1 seed in the playoffs, which begin Tuesday. Wayne hosts eighth-seeded Concord Tuesday night at Devon Prep. The sites for the rest of the series have not been determined.
In the other quarterfinal series, No. 2 Narberth takes on No. 7 Chester, No. 3 Springfield plays No. 6 Upper Darby and No. 4 Aston Valley takes on No. 5 Marple Newtown. Sites are to be determined.
In the Delco MSBL: DELCO TIGERS 7, CLIFTON ORIOLES 3 » Zach Imburgia went the route for the Tigers. Imburgia allowed five hits and struck out nine. He also had two hits and two runs scored. Randy Blanda went 3-for-4 with two RBIs.
Jake Phillips reached base three times for the Orioles. He went 2-for-2 with a walk and a run scored.
Softball
Collin DiGalbo’s leadoff homer set the tone as Marty Magee’s Knights dumped Hunt’s Raiders twice in the Millennium League Sunday,
18-12 and 14-5.
DiGalbo finished with five RBIs in the opener. Mark Despeaux added three RBIs. Anthony DiGalbo plated three runs in the nightcap and Sean Ryan was 3-for-4. Mike Labuski picked up two wins to improve to 6-0.
STEPHEN’S ON STATE 20-18, BRICK & BREW BANDITS 1-8 » Bobby Jones went 8-for-8 with seven RBIs in his first action in 10 months. Jason Aikens had a pretty good day, too. He was 7-for-7 with a double, triple and seven ribbies.
Dan Ryan was 3-for-3 with a triple and three RBIs in the opener and Rob Benigni got both wins. MISFITS 27-9, MCGILLICUDDY’S OF ESSINGTON 23-19 » Vince Belissimo went 9-for10 in the twinbill for the cud chewers. George Ochanski, Kevin Cook and Sean McFadden all went yard in Game 2 to help ‘Cuddy’s gain the split.
PRECISION CHIMNEY 18-14, BEACON CONSTRUCTION 1410» Ageless Chuck Brooks was 7-for-8 and the winning pitcher in both games.
Bobby Breischaft and Chuck Stewart both went
4-for-4 in the opener. John Lundell was 3-for-4 in the second game and Bubba Fisher made a diving catch to complete the sweep. DIGRAVIO PLUMBING/BARNABY’S OF ASTON 12, BALL HOGZ 11 » Steve Deavor stroked three hits and made numerous putouts in left field as the Plumbers rallied for three runs in the seventh inning in Game 2 to avoid the sweep. Vince Baselice went 5-for-5, Eric
Gibbs chipped in four hits and Randy Merkins got the walk-off hit.
Game 1?
Game 1?
BEHMKE CONSTRUCTION 21, AMSETT 11 » Ernie Manna and Eric Nardelli blasted three homers apiece, and Tommy Nardelli went yard twice to pace Behmke to its
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needs first wins of the year. Tom Behmke went 4-for-4 and John Kearney was 3-for-3.
JT Brewski’s Deer 1620, Flo Mechanical 14-15: Chris “Hollywood” Holbrook was 2-for-3 to reign over his Deer debut. Connor Quinn clubbed a grand slam and Mike Fitzgerald went 6-for-8 with five RBIs.
UPLAND AC 18-19, JT BREWSKI’S 10-3 » Dylan Ayars had seven hits including a pair of three-run homers among his four safeties in the opener. Ron Billick and Lee Tadalan added four hits each in Game 1. Luigi Malo collected four hits and Fran Naulmann three in the nightcap.