Full Plate of Little League Games
There were three Little League games here at high noon Sunday — two 11-to-12-year-old boys games at Pantigo and an 11-12 girls game at East Hampton High School.
The Greys, the 11-12 boys team coached by Andrew Daige, which plays in District 36’s B pool, was bageled 10-0 by the Westhampton-area team, East End, though the Maroons, coached by Chris Anderson, mercied Hampton Bays 14-1, a game that was ended after four innings of play.
The 11-12 girls meanwhile lost 15-1 here to the district’s defending champion, North Shore, a game that went the full six innings. “North Shore, which draws from a much bigger area than we do — from Mount Sinai, Miller Place, Sound Beach, Rocky Point, and Shoreham-Wading River — is the perennial favorite,” said Michelle Grant, one of East Hampton’s coaches. North Shore pitching notched 11 strikeouts Sunday. East Hampton was to have played Bellport in a semifinal game at East Hampton High School Tuesday.
The 11-12 girls, whose head coach is Kathy Amicucci, East Hampton High’s varsity mentor, began the double-elimination tourney Friday with a 13-2 mercy rule win over East End.
A 9-run second inning during which East Hampton sent 14 batters to the plate, served to do the home team in. Amicucci’s assistant said Baye Bogetti, Emma Terry, Sophia Weiss, and Emily Kennedy were among those with run-scoring hits.
“Weiss began the top of the third with a triple up the middle,” Grant said, “and came home on a 6-3 groundout. Bogetti subsequently drove in Camryn Hatch, who had singled and had advanced to second on a single by Sophia Yardley. That made it 13-1. East End got one back in the bottom of the fourth, but it wasn’t enough to avert the league’s mercy rule, which says a game shall be terminated if there’s a 10-run spread by the end of the fourth inning.”
“We have to practice our hitting,” Lindsay Roman said following the Grey team’s 10-0 loss Sunday to their East End counterparts, whose pitchers, she said, limited East Hampton to just a few hits while tattooing Bonac’s pitching in turn.
Anderson’s Maroon team had begun A pool play with a 5-1 loss to the North Shore Americans, a game in which Anderson said his charges made a number of mental mistakes. The team rebounded Sunday versus Hampton Bays. Jake Krahe was the winning pitcher. Jack Dickinson started the North Shore game, and went five-and-a-third innings before reaching the 85-pitch limit that keys a four-day pitching layoff.
Cameron DePetris, a grandson of Billy DePetris, a Bridgehampton School Hall of Famer, started Sunday’s game for Hampton Bays, but the Bonackers had their way with him, as well as with a subsequent relief pitcher.
Alex Lombardo, Michael Locascio, and Calum Anderson were among those with big blows for the Maroon team, whose hitters looked to be pretty aggressive by and large.
Besides the above-named players, Anderson’s roster includes Trevor Sacheki, Nico Puglia, Nick Schaefer, Zach Dodge, Hunter Eberhart, Nick Cordone, Aryan Chugh, Rich Gosman, and Cassius Hokanson.
Daige’s roster comprises Julian Link, Chase Siska, Brody Keogh, Ayden Herlihy (who started on the mound Sunday), Finn Byrnes (who relieved him), Milo Tompkins, Eli Wolf, Danny Lester, Kayden Daige, Julian DelFavero, Eddi Cobb, Patrick Farrell, and Joseph Garcia.
East Hampton’s 9-10 boys team, coached by Henry Meyer and Tim Garneau, was to have begun play here yesterday, with Sag Harbor.
“We’ve got three pretty strong pitchers in Tyler Hansen, Carter Dickinson, and Leandro Abreu,” Garneau said. “And since we’ve got games on Wednesday and Friday at North Shore our plan is that they all go 35.” East Hampton’s 9-10 girls team is to play at North Shore tomorrow.