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West Warwick 5 CLCF 2

Led by the pitching of Ray Zincone and Matt Grenier, West Warwick defeated CLCF, 5-2, in the opening round of the State Tournament. 

Zincone, who did not give up a run in three innings of work, struck out six batters, walked two, and allowed only two hits.  Grenier, who picked up the win in relief, struck out two and allowed two runs on two hits. 

After CLCF tied the game at 2-2 in the bottom of the fifth inning, West Warwick came back with three runs on a two run single by Ray Zincone, a wild pitch, an error, and one walk (David LaMountain).Offensively, West Warwick received hits from Grenier (1/3, one double, and one run scored), Zincone (2/3, one home run, two runs scored, and three r.b.i.’s), Tyler Boisclair (1/4, one triple), and Kyle Henseler (1/3). 

 West Warwick 11 Apponaug 1

Backed by an eleven hit attack and solid pitching from the trio of Joe Maynard, Trevor Lawton, and Tyler Boisclair, West Warwick breezed by Apponaug, 11-1. 

 Maynard picked up the victory by striking out five and walking five in three complete innings.  Lawton struck out five batters and allowed only one hit in two innings of relief. 

 Offensively, West Warwick received contributions from LaMountain (2/4, one r.b.i.), Brian Moretti (1/1, one run scored), Mitchell Moore (one run scored), Caleb Hoyle (r.b.i. double), Mike Pellerin (1/2, one run scored, and one r.b.i.), Lawton (3/3, one double, two runs scored, and one r.b.i.), Boisclair (1/4, one run scored, and one r.b.i.), Zincone (1/1, one home run, three walks, and two runs scored), Henseler (one r.b.i.), and Grenier (1/2, two runs scored, and two walks). 

West Warwick 13 CLCF 3

West Warwick wasted little time in booking their trips to Maine in a 13-3, four inning victory over CLCF.Ray Zincone, who struck out five batters, picked up the victory with three innings of two hit ball.  In the one inning of work, Matt Grenier, who struck out the first two batters he faced, allowed two unearned runs on one hit and three errors.

Offensively, West Warwick was led by Grenier (3/4, one double, one run scored, and four r.b.i.’s), Zincone (2/2, two runs scored, and two r.b.i.), Boisclair (2/3, one double, one run score, and one r.b.i.), Lawton (2/3, one double, two runs scored, and one r.b.i.), Joe Maynard (1/1, one run scored), Brian Moretti (1/2, one run scored), Andrew In (1/1, one run scored, and one r.b.i.), Mitchell Moore (1/2), and LaMountain (1/3, one double, two runs scored, and 2 r.b.i.’s).

The 12 Year Old All Stars lost a heartbreaker to Burlington (Massachusetts) last night, 9-8, in the Winner's Bracket Final.  Needing only one more out with an 8-5 lead, West Warwick could not finish off a tough Burlington team who scored four runs with two outs in the top of the sixth inning.  Tonight, West Warwick will try to win in the Loser's Bracket Final and advance to the New England Championship tomorrow afternoon. 

After two victories in the first two games of the New England Regional, the 12 Year Old All Stars of West Warwick find themselves in a position that they have never been in.  West Warwick is now only two wins from a trip to Winchester, Massachusetts for the 12 Year Old World Series (60').  With a win over Burlington (Massachusetts), West Warwick will advanced to the New England Championship. 

Coach Ron Roy's remarkable nine have put themselves in this position by simply outlasting their first two opponents with timely hitting and some quality pitching. 

West Warwick 10 New Fairfield (Conn.) 7

In the opening game of the New England Regionals, West Warwick defeated New Fairfield (Connecticut), 10-7.   

After falling behind 2-0 via back to back home runs in the first inning, West Warwick came back with four runs on on error, and hits from Ben Roy (double), Nick Motroni (double), Greg D'Ambrosca, and Mike Carley (bunt single). 

Down 7-4 after four innings, West Warwick took control of the game with a five run fifth inning highlighted by a home runs by Kurtis Quinn (three run home run to take the lead) and Nick Motroni (lead off home run).  Also getting hits in the inning were Rich McNeil (single), and Mike Carley (single).

While relief pitcher was setting down the New Fairfield line up, West Warwick added one more run in the top of the sixth inning for a 10-7 lead.  Nick Motroni doubled with one out, stole third, and scored on D'Ambrosca's timely double with two outs. 

Offensively, West Warwick was led by Motroni (3/4, two doubles, one home run, and three runs scored), D'Ambrosca (3/4, two doubles, and one run scored), Carley (2/2 with one run scored), and Quinn (2/3, one home run, and two runs scored).

West Warwick 5 Bellow Falls (Vermont) 4

Led by the solid pitching of Anthony Indeglia, West Warwick advanced to the Winner's Bracket final against Burlington (Massachusetts).

In six innings of work, Indeglia allowed only four runs on four scattered hits, while striking out six batters and walking none.  In fact, Indeglia was at his best the last two innings of the game by recording four of the final six outs via strikeouts. 

After falling behind 1-0, West Warwick took a 2-1 lead in the top of the second inning. Greg D'Ambrosca singled, moved to second on a walk to Nick Morel, advanced to third on bunt single by Mike Carley, and scored on a bases loaded walk to Indeglia.  Carley scored one out later on a Ben Roy single.    

West Warwick continued to show their resiliency by coming back again in the top of the third inning with one run on three hits (McNeil, D'Ambrosca, and Indeglia) to cut Bellow Falls lead to 4-3.

While Indeglia was baffling the batters of Bellow Falls, West Warwick forged ahead with two runs in the top of the sixth inning.  Providing the key hits of the inning were Ben Roy (double) and Evan Barrera (single).