After riding high with a three-game winning streak, the Northampton Post 28 Senior American Legion baseball team has dropped its last two contests — most recently a 12-1 defeat to East Springfield Post 420 on Thursday evening at Arcanum Field.
Post 420 improved to 8-1 on the year — avenging Wednesday night’s loss to Belchertown Post 239 — while Post 28 dropped to 7-4.
Northampton’s only run of the game came in the fifth inning, when Trey Kuzmeski ripped an RBI double to bring home Carter Styspeck.
East Springfield scored two runs in the top of the first, three in the second and two more in the third to overwhelm Post 28 early. After a scoreless fourth, Post 420 added another in the fifth before plating four in the sixth to put the game away for good.
Offensively, nobody had more than one hit for Post 28. It certainly wasn’t enough to keep pace with a top three team in the Senior Legion standings.
Northampton Post 28 returns to action next week, looking to get back in the win column against Sheffield Post 340 on Monday evening at Arcanum Field in Florence. First pitch is slated for 5:45 p.m.
Amherst 12, Frontier 0 — A no-hitter from Cyrus Arwade sent Amherst’s 14u Little League baseball team past Frontier, 12-0, at Herlihy Field in PVYBL Sandy Koufax action on Thursday.
Arwade sat down nine Frontier batters on strikes in the five-inning affair (shortened due to the run rule) as the Hurricanes improved to 8-2-1 on the season.
Read Guidera and Garrett Peltier each tallied a pair of hits for Amherst, which totaled seven, while Arwade helped his cause from the plate with two RBIs. Daniel Lebron singled as well while Nick Stinson, Miles Fox, Tristan Feeley, Oliver Howard and Brady Klaes all scored for the victors.
Amherst 10, Frontier 4 — The Hurricanes took the first game of the home-and-home set following a seven-run fourth inning at Amherst Middle School on Wednesday.
Frontier raced out to a 2-0 lead during the top of the first, but Amherst responded by plating three runs of its own in the bottom half of the frame, to go ahead, 3-2.
The Hurricanes’ then received runs from Oliver Howard, Tristan Feeley, Oscar Reich and Arwade in the fourth to pull away from the visitors. Reich threw 4.1 innings from the mound for Amherst and secured five strikeouts while allowing one earned run in the process.
Gus Garrett Peltier, Klaes and Guidera each performed well from the plate for the ‘Canes too.
