Weather postpones semifinals until Monday
HAMILTON » Poor field conditions after an early morning rain and the threat of heavier storms later in the day forced the Mercer County Baseball Tournament to postpone its semifinal round Saturday at Bob DeMeo Field in Veterans Park.
The games will instead be played Monday at that same site.
Seventh-seeded Princeton (13-7) will play third-seeded Nottingham (18-4) at 3:30 p.m. that day with the second semifinal between fifthseeded Hun (13-5) and topseeded Hopewell Valley (21-2) at 7 p.m.
Fans planning to attend the event or Tuesday’s 7 p.m. final at Veterans Park should also be aware that a $5 per vehicle parking fee will be charged.
The schedule change also means Nottingham’s regular season game at Hopewell Valley and Princeton’s regular season game at Ewing are postponed Monday.
Hun is also supposed to play at Christian Brothers Academy at 4:15 p.m. Monday. As of press time Saturday, that game had yet to be postponed.
Saturday’s a.m. rain also washed out three other regular season games scheduled to be played yesterday.
The game between West Windsor-Plainsboro South and WW-P North at Community Park was postponed until 7 p.m. Tuesday.
New Egypt’s Burlington County Scholastic League Freedom Division game with Maple Shade was postponed, but not immediately rescheduled.
Princeton Day School’s home game with New Hope-Solebury was cancelled.
WASHINGTON TWP. 2, BORDENTOWN 1 SEWELL » The Minutemen scored twice in the fifth inning, then held off the Scotties in first-round action of the 45th Joe Hartmann Diamond Classic.
Chris Wade doubled and drove in Sean O’Leary with Bordentown’s only run in the fourth inning.
Wade’s hit and Dylan Wood’s single were the only offense for the Scotties. TOMS RIVER » The Iron Mikes were limited to three hits by Indians pitcher Colin Mackle.
Sam Raymond’s double, plus singles from Andres Frias and Ali Pompey were as much as Trenton Catholic Academy could muster in this nonleague game.
MERCERSBURG 11-3, LAWRENCEVILLE 1-0 MERCERSBURG, PA. » The Mid-Atlantic Prep League campaign came to a close as the Blue Storm took a doubleheader from the Big Red.
Will Venizelos’ double and Caspian Packard’s single were Lawrenceville’s only hits in the first game versus Mercersburg pitcher Jayvien Sandridge.
The Big Red were limited to singles by Chris Conyers and Zach Dreyer against Blue Storm pitcher Trent Topping in the second game, while Venizelos, Lucas Maloney and Evan Monfre limited MAPL champ Mercersburg to three hits, one of which was Parker Hancock’s three-run homer.