Sandstone earns 10th Midget League victory

Photo by Tom Rivers – Pom Seibert delivers a pitch for Albion Midget League leading Sandstone which earned its 10th win of the season this past week. He hurled Sandstone to a win over St. Mary’s.

Front-running Sandstone nipped Carlton 8-7 this past Thursday to earn its 10th Albion Midget League victory of the season.

Sandstone, which is now 10-2, also defeated St. Mary’s 8-2 earlier in the week.

Breaking away from a 5-5 deadlock, Sandstone regained the lead for good against Carlton by scoring 3 times in the fifth inning on singles by Seth Krenning and Nick Martino and a two-run double by Cencere Lowe.

Carlton though battled back to within one on a two-run home run by Finn McCue in the sixth inning.  Carlton then got the bases loaded before Sandstone shortstop Elliot Trapiss came up with a big defensive play to get the final out and preserve the win.

Earlier in the game Sandstone scored 3 times in the third inning as Krenning and Lowe both had doubles and then twice in the fourth on a two-run double by Martino.

Carlton tied the game at 5-5 with three tallies in the fifth highlighted by a two-run triple by Lee Fleck.

Martino had 4 hits and Lowe and Krenning 3 each for Sandstone while McCue and Fleck both had a pair of hits for Carlton.

In Sandstone’s win over St. Mary’s, Pom Seibert went the distance on the mound striking out 12.

At the plate, Krenning and Joey Schoeberlein both had 3 hits and Nolan Sullivan and Josh Schoeberlein 2.  Aaron Sugar had a pair of hits for St. Mary’s.

Joey and Josh Schoeberlein both had RBI singles to key a 4 run first inning scoring burst for Sandstone.  Krenning and Joey Schoeberlein then had RBI hits in the second inning as did Sullivan and Krenning in the fifth.

St. Mary’s scored twice in the fourth as Sugar and Blake Preton both had RBI hits.

Rotary 10, Barre 3
The Rotary/Lions handed the Barre Cubs their first loss in 6 games by a score of 10-3. A dominate pitching performance from Jacob Edwards sparked the win. He threw a complete game, striking out 13 Barre batters.

At the plate for Rotary, Caiden Froman and Xavier Byrd lead the way with 2 hits each. Will Plummer added another hit. Barre’s loan hit came off the bat of Josh Bovenzi with a 3 run home run.

Barre 4, St. Mary’s 1
Barre bounced back with a 4-1 win over St. Mary’s at the Town of Barre’s 200th anniversary celebration.

Nathan Gibson threw the full game for Barre, striking out 11 batters.

Barre scored all 4 runs in the 3rd inning on back to back singles by Jacob Neal and Gibson, a double by Jason Conn and a home run by Bovenzi.  Blake Preston was strong on the mound for St. Mary’s and provided 2 hits for them at the plate. Jack Kinter added 2 more hits and Xavier Penafiel another.

Standings: Sandstone 10-2, Barre 8-4, Carlton 7-5, Rotary 5-7, St. Mary’s 3-9, Vets 3-10.