Midget League has high scoring All-Star game
Contributed Photo – Players and coaches from the winning Rotary/Sandstone/St. Mary’s All-Star game team meet here. In front are Blake Preston, and Tyler Seibert. Players standing are Jack Kinter, Xavier Byrd, Nick Martino, Nick Radder, Nolan Sullivan, Pom Siebert, Seth Krenning, Aaron Sugar, Jacob Edwards and Mason Giatino. Coaches are Chris Kinter,Josh Trapiss and Dan Bartlett.
Putting together a huge last inning rally, the combined Rotary/Sandstone/St. Mary’s team rallied for a 22-14 win over the combined Carlton/Barre/Vets squad in the annual Albion Midget League 12U All-Star game on Saturday.
Trailing 14-10, the winners erupted for 12 runs in the seventh inning highlighted by a grand slam home run by Jack Kinter, a home run and single by Xavier Byrd and a double by Nolan Sullivan.
Nick Martino then preserved the lead by registering three strikeouts in the bottom of the seventh to close out the wild win.
The Carlton/Barre/Vets team had grabbed the 14-10 lead by scoring 4 runs in the sixth inning on triples by Jason Conn and Josh Bovenzi along with singles by John Bianchi and Dylan Narburgh.
The Rotary/Sandstone/St. Mary’s squad had knotted the contest at 10-10 by scoring 3 times in the top of the sixth on hits by Nick Radder and Aaron Sugar. Earlier, Radder had a two-run double and Blake Preston a two-run single to key a 6 run fourth inning uprising.
Byrd finished with 5 hits and Radder 4 for the winners while Brandon Nashburn had 3 and Narburgh and Conn 2 each for Barre/Carlton/Vets.
