Gulls Drop Tough Game to Mystic 9-2
Published on July 29, 2013 under New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL)
Newport Gulls News Release
NEWPORT, RI - The Newport Gulls dropped their fourth game in a row at the tail end of the 2013 season to division rival Mystic at home on Monday night. A 9-2 loss, Newport heads into a long home-stand playing six games in the next three days.
Amid the loss, the Newport Gulls community hosted the 4th Annual Mark Weed Memorial Scholarship Night. Mark Weed, a lifetime Newport resident lost his battle with cancer in 2009, but his memory lives on with his love of baseball.
His wife, Rhode Island Senate President Teresa Paiva Weed, with a slew of her family members and volunteers, helped raise funds for the scholarship throughout the night to benefit underprivileged children in the community who wish to attend the Gulls summer baseball camps. Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee also made a visit to Cardines in support of the night.
Newport Gulls starting hurler Tyler Ferguson found himself in trouble early in the contest with a one-out, bases loaded jam in the top of the first. He would not escape unscathed as Mystic's Brandon Cipolla would step up to the dish and deliver an RBI on a ground out to bring home Tyler Boyd, who reached the base path himself on a walk. Garrett Kennedy would keep the Schooner bats alive in the inning with a two-out two RBI double to make it 3-0 Mystic early.
The Newport Gulls would cut the lead to two runs in the bottom of the second on a sacrifice fly to deep center field from Ethan Ferreira to score Ben Roberts from third to make it a 3-1 game.
However, the flock would find themselves set back further when Tyler Boyd stepped up to the dish in the fourth lifting a pitch high and deep over the right-center field wall for a solo home-run, his NECBL-leading seventh of the season, extending the Schooners lead back to three.
In a game of cat and mouse, Newport would chip away at the Mystic lead when Adrian English picked up an RBI single on an infield hit off the leg of starting pitcher Anthony Galan to bring Cody Jones home from third, making the score 4-2.
Mystic would answer in the ensuing sixth inning, extending their lead to three runs yet again with a sacrifice fly from Alec Keller deep enough into center to bring Adam Touhey home for their fifth run of the contest.
The Schooners would shut the door on Newport in the top of the ninth. With two-outs in the ninth, Milan Mantle, looking to get out of a bases loaded jam, allowed a 2-run double by Nico Darras, both runs unearned by way of two infield errors.
A wild pitch and ground rule double produced from a Brandon Cippola at-bat made it four runners in as many at-bats to reach home, cresting their lead at seven.
The game also saw injuries to OF Ty Moore, who was taken out of the game after fouling a ball off of his foot in the 8th, and Mick VanVossen, who injured his ankle and was taken out of the game after attempting to field a bunt hit back to the mound in the 7th.
Mark McCoy (1-1, 1.70 ERA), the southpaw, will have the start for Newport on the hill tomorrow afternoon against Sean Meekins (0-1, 6.42) of the Vermont Mountaineers. First pitch for the 9-inning makeup game will be at 2:00 p.m. at Cardines Field in Newport, followed by the regularly scheduled Bridge to Fitness Heather Abbott Night at 6:35 vs. the Ocean State Waves, also a 9-inning game.
The Gulls will play six games at home over the next three days, including a double header vs. Plymouth on Wednesday (3 p.m. and 6:35, two 7-inning games), and a double header on Thursday vs. the Sanford Mainers and New Bedford Bay Sox (at 1 p.m. and 6:35 p.m., respectively), before closing out the regular season on the road at Danbury on Friday.
New England Collegiate Baseball League Stories from July 29, 2013
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