Date: Fri 04-Aug-1995

Publication: Bee

Author: TOMW

Illustration: I

Quick Words:

10-Year-Old-All-Stars-Fall

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Ten-Year-Old All Stars

Fall In Diamond Invitational

After a 16-game post season schedule, the Newtown Little League's ten-year-old

all-star team finally came to the end of the road on Tuesday night, August 1,

falling 11-0 to Shelton in the finals of the Newtown Invitational Tournament.

The town's youngest stars managed only three hits, those coming off the bats

of Jason Glander, Ronnie Isler, and Alan Fisher.

On the previous day, Newtown had lost 23-9 to Park City at a tournament in

Shelton. Park City took a six run lead in the first inning and added 16 in the

second to go ahead 22-0. Newtown mounted a rally, but fell short as the game

was called after four innings because of the ten-run rule.

Isler was 2-for-2 for the Newtown stars in the game, while Dan Murphy,

Glander, Chris Evans, and Tommy Ermini all had hits during the comeback

effort. The ball had started rolling downhill for Newtown on Saturday, July

30, when the three-game slide began.

On that day, Newtown was the victim of a no-hitter in an 11-0 loss to Trumbull

National. Though things finished up on a sour note, Newtown coach Ray Craven

was happy with the progress he saw from the young all-stars. " They got a lot

of games in this summer and that's the objective, " he said. " Sometimes you

have to look beyond the winning and losing. I think the kids learned a lot of

valuable lessons along the way. "

This year's Newtown ten-year-old all-star team consisted of Jim Boccuzzi, John

Brundage, Chris Evans, Mike Forestieri, Andrew Fiscella, Alan Fisher, Joe

Gantert, Jason Glander, Jeremy Graves, Ron Isler, Dan Murphy, Trevor Seferi,

Chris Sheehan, Tony Willie, Kevin Woessner, and Tommy Ermini. Brundage,

Fiscella, and Woessner were the only nine-year-olds on the squad.