Senior Little League Baseball Eastern Regional: Scores & Records: 2011 Regional - Game 17
2011 Regional - Game 17
WEST DEPTFORD, NJ – Wyoming, PA scored three times in the bottom of the sixth and Nick O’Brien survived the seventh to give his squad an improbable spot in the Senior League Baseball Eastern Regional championship round, defeating Quincy, MA, 6-4, on Wednesday night.
Wyoming won a doubleheader for the second time this week and will need to sweep one more if it is to earn a spot in the Senior League World Series in Bangor, ME this coming weekend. Wyoming will face unbeaten Talbot, MD beginning at 10 am Thursday. If Wyoming wins the first game, a second will follow 30 minutes later.
Trailing 4-3 in the sixth, Jack Granteed singled and Eric Walkowiak followed with a double to put runners at second and third. Quincy elected to try to stay out of the big inning and kept the infield back. Jordan Zezza smacked a grounder to second – which probably would have gone through had the infield been up – scoring Granteed and tying the game.
As Wyoming got to the bottom of the order, Quincy pulled the infield in with the score tied. Adam Romanowski, 0-for-7 in the regional entering the game, ripped a single past the diving first baseman, scoring Walkowiak with the go-ahead run. Romanowski finished the game 2-for-3 with a run scored and two RBI.
A bases loaded walk later in the inning tacked on an insurance run for O’Brien, but it wasn’t an easy seventh. An error and a walk gave Quincy two runners on and the go-ahead run at the plate. But O’Brien, who had been pulled in the first inning from Wyoming’s early game due to wildness, coaxed a ground out to end the game.
Quincy had taken a 4-3 lead when Tom McDonald smacked his second home run of the day, a no-doubter to left in the fifth inning. But it wouldn’t hold up for Quincy, which lost for the second time on Wednesday. Earlier in the day, Quincy lost by the same 6-4 score to Talbot.
Only two other teams have ever come back from the elimination bracket to win the regional in the last 20 years. South Vineland, N.J was the last in 2003. In both instances, however, the team coming out of the elimination bracket suffered late losses in the winner’s bracket. Wyoming lost back on Saturday and had to win four elimination games to get to Monday.
2011 REGIONAL SCHEDULE
Friday, Aug. 5
G2 - Quincy, MA 6, Stony Point, NY 0
G1 - Wyoming, PA 7, West Deptford NJ-15 3
Saturday, Aug. 6
G5 - Edgewood (Bristol), CT 7, Edgewood-South Elmwood, RI 5
G4 - Quincy, MA 10, Waldo County, ME 0 (5 inn.)
G6 - Felton-Harrington, DE 9, Wyoming, PA 4
G3 - Talbot (Home Run Baker/Easton), MD 12, Freehold, NJ 2 (5 inn.)
Sunday, August 7
G8 - West Deptford, NJ-15 9, Waldo County, ME 6* (ME eliminated)
G7 - Stony Point, NY 11 Freehold, NJ 7* (NJ eliminated)
G10 - Quincy, MA 8, Felton-Harrington, DE 3
G9 - Talbot (Home Run Baker/Easton), MD 10, Edgewood (Bristol), CT 0
Monday, August 8
G12 - Wyoming, PA 3, West Deptford, NJ-15 1 (NJ-15 eliminated)
G11 - Stony Point, NY 10, Edgewood-South Elmwood, RI 9 (RI eliminated)
G13 - Wyoming, PA 11, Edgewood (Bristol), CT 1* (CT eliminated)
G14 - Stony Point, NY 6, Felton-Harrington, DE 5* (DE eliminated)
Tuesday, August 9
G15 and G16 PPD-RAIN
Wednesday, August 10
G15 - Talbot, MD 6, Quincy, MA 4
G16 - Wyoming, PA 1, Stony Point, NY 0* (NY eliminated)
G17 – Wyoming, PA vs. Quincy, MA, approx. 5:45 pm*
Thursday, August 11 - Championship Round
G18 – Talbot, MD vs. Winner G17, 10 am
G19 - Winner G18 vs. Loser G18 (if necessary), 30 min. after G18 conclusion
*elimination game.
