East Lyme LL baseball (ages 10-12) captures Section 3 title

July 19, 2024 7:58 pm
• Last Updated: July 19, 2024 7:58 pm

East Lyme’s Alexander Biscotto throws a pitch during the District 10 Little League baseball championship game (ages 10-12) against Waterford on July 3. Biscotto pitched a complete-game one-hitter this week as East Lyme defeated West Hartford 11-0 to win the Connecticut Section 3 tournament and advance to the Final Four. (Sarah Gordon/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints

West Hartford — Rocco Russo and Blake Gianakos each had three hits for East Lyme Little League in an 11-0 victory Thursday over West Hartford to capture the Connecticut Section 3 baseball championship (ages 10-12), sending East Lyme to the Final Four beginning Tuesday in Shelton.

East Lyme avenged a 3-2 loss to West Hartford earlier in the tournament.

Russo had four RBI and Jonathan Menchaca homered for East Lyme, which scored three runs in the fifth to end the game after five innings. Alexander Biscotto pitched a complete game, allowing one hit, striking out eight and walking one.

East Lyme started the tournament with a 7-0 win over Madison, getting three hits from Biscotto, who allowed one hit over four innings, striking out nine and walking two. Brayden Santos added a triple and three RBI.

The District 10 champion, 9-1 so far in the postseason, East Lyme then dropped a 3-2 decision to West Hartford, scoring both runs in the first inning. Menchaca homered and Biscotto added a triple.

West Hartford then edged Madison 9-8 to advance to the final, meeting East Lyme.

East Lyme will next meet South Windsor in the first game of the Final Four at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. Also competing will be Stamford National and Wallingford. The Final Four championship game will be played at 11 a.m. July 27 with a second game to be played July 28 if necessary.

FCBL

• The Norwich Sea Unicorns will have seven players competing in the Futures Collegiate Baseball League All-Star Game beginning at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Dodd Stadium. Sea Unicorns manager Kevin Murphy will manage Team Rose City, which will compete against Team Three Rivers.

Representing the Sea Unicorns will be AJ Soldra (OF), Nick Tomasetto (3B/2B), Jimmy Mulvaney (P), Gavin Hawkes (P), Gio Conte (P), Christian Stratis (3B/OF/Util.) and Liam Carroll (P).

American Legion

• Dylan Matis allowed two hits over seven innings Thursday, striking out nine and walking none, as the Waterford American Legion baseball team blanked Tri-Town 3-0. Waterford (21-1) scored two runs in the third on a sacrifice fly by Alex Dreyfus and a double by Brian Ingraham.

On Wednesday, John Bureau’s sacrifice fly in the seventh inning gave Waterford a 4-3 victory over Norwich. Trailing 3-1, Waterford got RBI in the inning from Matt Shampine, AJ Montejano and Bureau. Dreyfus had two hits and Ethan Chavez was the winning pitcher. Owen Luty, Derek Macy and Yeremi Garcia had RBI for Norwich.

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