OIB Ortho Baseball Scoreboard Tuesday, April 22

Shore Conference Baseball Scoreboard

Presented by OIB Ortho

Tuesday, April 22

 

Class A North

No. 2 Red Bank Catholic 7, No. 1 CBA 6

Dylan Passo raced to the plate ahead of a throw home from the CBA infield and the Caseys walked off with a wild win over the Colts, dealing CBA its first loss of the season and denying the Shore’s No. 1 team an improbable come-from-behind victory.

RBC scored three runs apiece in the third and fifth innings to open up a commanding 6-0 lead over CBA with senior ace and University of Virginia commit Ryan Prior on the mound and in control. In the top of the sixth, however, CBA took advantage of Prior’s only walks of the game, as well as a pair of errors.

Prior entered the sixth with no walks on his ledger, but walked the first two batters of the inning. The runner on second — Jayden Matejicka — got caught between first and second, but an errant throw on the run down allowed Colin Hoverter to score from second and freed up Matejicka to advance to third. Jared Matejicka then drove in his twin brother with an RBI ground out to trim RBC’s lead to 6-2.

Prior then induced a flyout to leftfield for the second out and jumped ahead of third baseman Dan Russo, 1-2, in the count. Russo, however, battled his way to a 10-pitch walk to extend the inning for Parker Hughes, who also battled out of a 1-2 count to get to 3-2 and flipped a single into rightfield that scored Russo, who had advanced to second base on a wild pitch.

Hughes then advanced to second on a passed ball and got the stop sign from CBA coach Marty Kenny Jr. at third base on a single through the left side by sophomore centerfielder A.J. Fiore, who then stole second base with classmate Ryan Wetmore representing the tying run at home plate. Wetmore lined a single into the centerfield to pick up two RBI and the ball got past sophomore Luke Scaturro and rolled all the way to the face. Wetmore circled the bases and scored to tie the game, 6-6.

Senior right-hander Luke Meyers relieved Prior and worked out of the sixth inning, then pitched around a two-out double by CBA catcher Dan Tsimbinos to spin a scoreless top of the seventh.

In the bottom of the seventh, RBC also led off with a pair of walks to start its rally, with Scaturro and Passo both reaching on free passes. Jack Dufficy then replaced Dan Pardini on the mound for CBA and senior shortstop Max Dantoni laid down a bunt between the mound and the third-base line. Dufficy took a chance on a play at third base, but Scaturro dove into the bag before the throw made it to Russo at third, giving the Caseys the bases loaded with none out.

Junior Charlie Stumberg hit a slow ground ball to Russo at third and the CBA senior threw home for the first out. RBC home run and RBI leader Jake Frankel then stepped in and after fouling off two two-strike offerings from Dufficy, he put the ball in play to the left side of the infield. Russo and the shortstop, Hoverter, converged on the ball at the same time and Hoverter got there first as he ran into his teammate. Hoverter still managed to make an accurate throw to the plate, but Passo slid in before the ball reached Tsimbinos, who could not hold onto the throw anyway.

Scaturro, Passo and Dantoni were in the middle of all three RBC scoring rallies on Tuesday. Designated hitter Miles Nessan led off the third inning with an infield hit and held up at third base on a double by Scaturro down the rightfield line. Passo then legged out an infield single on a ground ball to second base for a 1-0 RBC lead and Dantoni followed with an RBI single to centerfield that made it 2-0 and kept runners on the corners.

Passo ran on contact on a ground ball by Stumberger and was tagged out in a rundown, which allowed Dantoni to reach third and give the Caseys runners on the corners again with two out. Dantoni then scored on the back end of double-steal to extend the RBC lead to 3-0.

Scaturro started the fifth-inning threat by beating out a ground ball to the left side for an infield single. Passo then punched a single through the middle and Dantoni ripped an RBI single through the left side of the infield and both runners moved up on the throw home, which was too late to get Scaturro.

Stumberger then ripped a two-run double to the right-center gap for a 6-0 Caseys lead.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
CBA (8-1, 5-1)	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	6	7	0
RBC (7-2, 5-2)	0	0	3	0	3	0	1	7	8	2

Pitching

CBA	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	PC
Danny DiTullio	4.1	8	6	6	0	6	72
Shane Langan	0.2	0	0	0	0	1	6
Dan Pardini (L, 0-1)	1	0	1	1	2	2	28
Jack Dufficy	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	12

Red Bank Catholic	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	PC
Ryan Prior	5.2	6	6	5	3	5	107
Luke Meyers (W, 2-0)	1.1	1	0	0	1	1	25

Top Hitters

CBA	Game Stats
Ryan Wetmore	2-3, 2B, R, 2 RBI
Alex Fiore	2-3, R, SB
Jayden Matejicka	1-3, 2B, BB, R, SB
Parker Hughes	1-3, R, RBI
Dan Tsimbinos	1-4, 2B

Red Bank Catholic	Game Stats
Max Dantoni	2-3, 2 R, 2 RBI
Dylan Passo	2-3, BB, 2 R, RBI
Luke Scaturro	2-2, 2B, BB, 2 R
Charlie Stumberger	1-4, 2B, 2 RBI, SB
Miles Nessan	1-3, R

 

Marlboro at Manalapan, 3:45 p.m.

 

No. 3 Ranney at No. 4 Middletown South, 4 p.m.

 

 

Class A South

No. 6 Brick Memorial 12, Donovan Catholic 6

 

Class B North

Matawan at Ocean, 3:45 p.m.

Howell at No. 7 Colts Neck, 4 p.m.

Shore at Monmouth, 4 p.m.

 

Class B South

Toms River North at Jackson Liberty, 10 a.m.

 

Class C North

St. John Vianney 9, Neptune 3

Freehold Township at Holmdel, 4 p.m.

Freehold Boro at Raritan, 4 p.m.

 

Class C South

Barnegat 12, Lacey 2 (6 Innings)

 

Coastal

Lakewood at Long Branch, 3:45 p.m.

Keansburg at Henry Hudson, 4 p.m.

 

Non-Division

Rumson-Fair Haven at Red Bank, 4 p.m.

 

Non-Conference

At Myrtle Beach, S.C.

No. 9 Brick vs. Austintown Fitch (Oh.), 11 a.m.