Gladiators Baseball Team Update

The Newtown Gladiators 9 B baseball team had its winning streak stopped at nine games this past week. The team started the week with a home win against Southbury, lost three consecutive games (to Middlebury, Easton and New Milford) and ended the week with a home win against the other Newtown 9 B travel team, the Tornadoes. The Gladiators have a record of 12-5-1. Here are the highlights:

Newtown Gladiators 21, Southbury 6 — This was the ninth consecutive victory for the Gladiators. Colin Patrick and Spencer Johnson combined to strike out 10 batters and held Southbury to just three hits during the game. Second baseman Nick Lametto and first baseman Robert Katrinak made multiple put-outs. Mitchell Savoca collected three hits, including a triple and Jack Riley, Daniel Pearson, Johnson and Katrinak reached base four times. Lametto and Patrick added singles.

Middlebury 11, Newtown Gladiators 10 — The Gladiators tried to rally in the home half of the six inning by scoring two runs on a double by Daniel Pearson, butcame up short and left the tying run on third to end the game. Mitchell Savoca hit a triple over the right fielder’s head and Nick Lametto, Paul Whitaker, and Robert Katrinak chipped in with singles.

Easton 16, Newtown Gladiators 5 — Avenging an earlier season loss, Easton came to Newtown with hot bats and collected 15 hits off of Gladiator pitching. Robert Katrinak had a good day at the plate by roping two doubles to left center field and Mitchell Savoca collected two singles. Nick Lametto and Jack Riley both had singles and Colin Patrick hit a double to the left field fence.

New Milford 10, Newtown Gladiators 5 — Spencer Johnson and Colin Patrick led the offense with two hits apiece and Nick Lametto, Dylan Tyrell, and Jack Riley chipped in with singles. Daniel Pearson drew three walks. Johnson struck out six batters over three innings of work and Noah LaFerriere and Pearson made several plays in the field.

Newtown Gladiators 9, Newtown Tornadoes 8 — Dylan Tyrell hit the game-winning single, one of three hits in the game, to plate Robert Katrinak in the bottom half of the sixth inning to cap a two-run rally. The Gladiators rallied back from deficits three times during the game. In the second inning, the Gladiators scored four times to grab a 4-2 lead on a sacrifice by Katrinak, and back-to-back RBI doubles by Tyrrell and Matt Campbell. Trailing 5-4 in the bottom of the fifth inning, Spencer Johnson led off the inning with a single to left, stole second base and scored on a single by Katrinak who later scored on a triple by Tyrrell. The scoring was completed on a fielder’s choice off the bat of Nick Lametto. After surrendering the lead and giving up three runs in the top of the sixth inning, the Gladiators answered with two runs of their own on a clutch RBI hit by Colin Patrick, second hit of the game, and the game-winning hit by Tyrrell. Third baseman Jack Riley threw two runners out at first and second baseman Daniel Pearson threw two runners out at first.