Schooners Snap Blue Sox Winning Streak With 6-1 Victory
Published on June 21, 2011 under New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL)
Valley Blue Sox News Release
The Blue Sox walked out of MacKenzie Stadium on Tuesday night with a feeling they haven't known in a while - the feeling of defeat.
Entering the game Holyoke (6-2) was demolishing opposing pitching staffs scoring 32 runs in the past three games, but Mystic pitcher Alex Norris would have something to say about that.
Norris shut down the Blue Sox allowing only one run, striking out seven in his six inning performance, and was followed up by Craig Schlitter who threw three innings and struck out four of his one to get the three inning save.
The Schooners struck first in the second inning after Nick Ferraresi doubled to lead off the inning, he was driven in by John Murphy's RBI double to take a 1-0 lead and would add one more.
Holyoke responded in the bottom of the second inning with a Trey Mancini solo home run to cut the Schooners lead in half, 2-1.
That would be the last run the Blue Sox would score as the Mystic pitching staff dominated the rest of the game allowing four hits for the entire game.
The Schooners extended their lead in the fourth inning with three consecutive singles allowing Joe Hudson, Christian Griffith and Brett Doran to score. Doran finished the game 1-for-5 with two runs driven in.
The Schooners would add one more in the seventh to take the 6-1 lead, which was the final.
Blue Sox starting pitcher, Kyle Hooper, was tagged with the loss and Norris claimed his first victory of the season.
The Blue Sox will be back in action tomorrow against the North Shore Navigators at 6:30 p.m.
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