Lightning Baseball Results

Newtown Lightning 16-19 year old baseball highlights from this past week are as follows:

Lightning 11, Milford Two 1: David Lucia led an offensive barrage with four hits and three RBIs, and Ben Stoller drove in three runs Sunday at Fairfield Hills Field. Battling food poisoning, Lucia unloaded two triples, a double, and a single in four at-bats. Stoller drove in the first run with a single up the middle, scoring Brandon Cooper, who had walked and stolen second. Stoller knocked in two more runs by drilling a bases-loaded single to right in the fifth, and final, inning. The hit moved Cooper, who had walked, to third, and, after Stoller stole second, Lucia followed with a two-RBI single that invoked the ten-run mercy rule. Eric Pisani pitched superbly for the Lightning, yielding just two hits, two walks and one run over five innings. He struck out four batters. Newtown had 12 hits in the shortened contest, including two each by Alex Lapinski and Chris Haylon. Lapinski’s two singles drove in two runs, and Will Arndt also knocked in two runs with singles. Playing third base, Haylon made a great catch with two men on in the fifth inning, sprinting in toward home plate to snare a popup.

Lightning 11, Naugatuck 1: Newtown jumped out to an 8-0 lead after two innings, and exploded for ten hits over four innings, before invoking the ten-run mercy rule in the middle of the fifth inning Saturday at Fairfield Hills Field. Brandon Cooper, Will Arndt, Alex Saviano and Michael Allwein each had two hits, and Allwein knocked in three runs with a single and a double. Saviano blasted the game’s longest hit, a triple down the left field line that rolled to the fence. Colton Sposta pitched two shutout innings for the win, yielding two hits, walking one and striking out three. Saviano pitched brilliantly in relief, giving up two hits, walking none and striking out four in three innings.

Seymour 5, Lightning 4: Newtown blew a 4-1 fourth-inning lead and couldn’t knock out Seymour starting pitcher Jake Sussman, who pitched a complete game last week at Fairfield Hills Field. Sussman didn’t give up a hit for the first three innings, and Seymour led 1-0 before the Lightning struck for four fourth-inning runs. With two outs, Wyatt Depuy singled, stole second, moved to third on a passed ball and scored on a wild pitch. Ben Stoller walked and stole second. David Lucia singled Stoller to third and stole second. Alex Lapinski clubbed a groundball, two-RBI double over third base. Michael Allwein reached on an error by the second baseman, and Lapinski scored from second. Seymour tied the game with three fifth-inning runs on three hits, a walk, a hit by pitch and an error. Newtown lost the game on two seventh-inning infield errors. Colton Sposta pitched the first 4 2/3 innings, yielding four runs on four hits, walking two, hitting three batters and striking out four. Chris Haylon pitched 1 2/3 innings in relief, and Austin Ekstrom gave up no hits and an unearned run in the seventh inning.