made a pair of key putouts. Amato backpedaled to snare Rachko’s popup in the seventh inning. Daniels absorbed two hard smashes, one that nearly ripped his glove from his hand. Champi hauled in three straight deep fly balls in right-center and Buteau in left, needed to scoot backward to grab Santarel...

PIKAART SCORES WINNER ON GREENBLATT’S DINKERRelatively smooth sailing for St. Ignatius ran into very choppy waters in its St. Bart’s Oldtimers Men’s Softball League game against St. Sebastian at Brookside Park in Scotch Plains on August 11. Playing with a squad of just nine players for four innings,...

OLIGINO BIG ON MOUND, AT PLATE; MROZ KEY GRABSSmooth sailing for three innings got a bit testy in the fourth and fifth innings when the top-seeded Westfield 12U White hosted the fourth-seeded Berkeley Heights Red in the semifinal round of the US Amateur BaseballLeague Metro Division playoffs at Gumb...

FISCHER TOSSES 5 SHUTOUT INNINGS, NARDELLO HRSwan Hotel ace pitcher Doug Fischer kept the visiting Deegan Roofing squad off the scoreboard for five straight innings and needed his teammates to deliver just one more RBI to end the game in five innings via 15run rule in a Union County Senior 60+ Men’s...

ALLEN 2-2B’S, PANTELIC 3 RBI, SEMLER 2-2, ARATO 2 RBIPatience paid off for the top-seeded Cranford 11U Gold when they hosted the fourth-seeded Ridge Black in the semifinal round of the New Providence Green League playoffs at Memorial Field in Cranford on July 26. After trailing 4-0 entering the bott...

PANTELIC ‘D’, SEMLER, ARATO 2 RBI, HANSEN 2 2BSEffective pitching, stubborn defense and timely hitting would have been necessary for the top-seeded Cranford 11U Gold to prevail over the second-seeded Westfield White for the New Providence Green League crown at Memorial Field Complex in Cranford on J...