The Granby Athletic Association (GAA) 12U baseball team won the J.S.L.
championship after taking down the Granite Valley Gunners in a best-of-three series on Monday, June 29.
Granby used a strong pitching performance from Ivan Dusza (eight strikeouts) and three hits from Thomas Curran to cruise to a 12-2 victory in Game 1.
Game 2 was a back-and-forth barn-burner, with Granby securing the clinching win in extra innings by a 19-18 score.
Gavin Marion mashed two home runs for Granby, while Luke Boone brought in the game-winning run with a RBI single to right field in the bottom of the eighth inning.
Granby finished the regular season at 8-8 and captured the championship as the seventh seed.
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Amherst 13, Frontier2 9 — The Hurricanes erased an early deficit to claim their second straight win at Amherst Middle School on Monday.
Trailing 6-1 after 2 1/2 innings, Amherst scored four runs in the third and eventually went ahead, 13-6, to down the Redhawks.
Cyrus Arwade (3-for-4), Oliver Howard (2-for-3) and Agho Mankin were crucial in the Hurricanes’ comeback as its leaders on offense.
Northampton 10, West County 1 — Dylan Lawrence-Riddell and Maceo Nteta carried the Blue Devils to victory on Monday.
Lawrence-Riddell (one hit allowed, zero runs, five strikeouts in four innings) recorded the win on the mound while Nteta (two hits, one unearned run, two strikeouts in three innings) grabbed the save.
Lawrence-Riddell and Bradley Woods cracked two hits each for Northampton.
Amherst 3, Frontier1 3 — A pitchers’ duel led to a nine-inning tie at Frontier on Sunday night.
Redhawks’ starter Callan Payne surrendered two runs in 5 1/3 innings while Cyrus Arwade was the highlight for the Hurricanes, allowing one unearned run in five innings, plus picking up eight strikeouts.
Amherst led 3-1 entering the bottom of the sixth inning, but a two-RBI single from Payne knotted up the contest and forced extras. Despite putting runners in scoring position in the seventh, eighth and ninth innings, Amherst could not find another run in this one.
