Bombers Blue Teams go 4-0 on Weekend

The 12-U Bombers Blue squad, coached by former Rider outfielder Matt McCollum, out-scored the Deptford Spartans 15-7 in their Sunday double header. The Bombers offense was led by first basemen Mike Christopher and SS Greg Albert, who both went deep in the contests. Christopher was 5-6 on the day with two doubles and a home run posting 7 rbi’s. Albert was 4-5 with a home run and two saves on the hill. Game one was won 11-7 while game two was won 4-0. The second game was a pitching master piece by Josh Knapp, Joey Robertson and Greg Albert.

The 10-U Blue team also played Sunday against the Tri-State Arsenal Select. The Bombers posted 16 runs in the two games beating the opponent in game one 7-0 and 9-1 in game two. The offense was led by EJ Mangione, Ryan Graham, Matt Christopher and Cooper Quigley. Christopher reached base six times boosting his average to .511 while Mangione added three more hits and boosting his average to .594. In the first game, Nathan Liedtka pitched a fantastic five innings with 0 runs and 9 strikeouts. In game two, Christopher threw 3 and 2/3 innings while striking out six. Graham added three strikeouts in 1 and 1/3 innings pitched. Carella finished the last inning with no hits and a strikeout.

All around it was a great day for Bombers Baseball!!!!

Bombers 10-yr olds post 39 hits in three game weekend

Over the weekend the Bombers 10 yr old Blue Team headed to Diamond Nation in Flemington, NJ where they went 2-1. In the three games the team posted up 39 hits and 20 walks to boost the team batting average to .370 and the team On Base Percentage to .460.

The final of game one was the Jersey State Bombers 10 and the North Jersey Expos 4. Ryan Graham pitched a gem while throwing the entire six inning game. The second game was an unlike-Bombers performance where they fell to the Young Guns 11-5. Walks and errors haunted the Bombers for part of this game allowing many un-earned runs.

In Game three the Bombers took on Gallagher Select. This game was neck and neck until the 5th inning. The score was 2-1 with Gallagher in the lead going in to the fifth until the Bombers batted in the bottom of the inning scoring 7 runs making the score 8-2. Somehow the final was 8-7 with the Bombers taking the W. Nate Liedtka pitched outstanding through five innings keeping the opponent to only 2 runs scored. In the last inning there were some errors mixed in with a couple hits to help give the Gallagher Select one more last minute run but the Bombers held on to give them their only loss of the tournament. The Gallagher Select went on to win the tournament beating Medford in the finals.

Cooper Quigley, Matt Christopher, EJ Mangione and Sean Dugan put up 5 hits a piece in the tournament. Jake Bianco and Blake Olsen both finished 4 for 8 on the weekend. Olsen also had 4 rbi’s. Garrett Carella was 3 for 8 and Ryan Graham was 3 for 6.

The next game for the 10 yr old blue team will be this Wed against the SJ Rattlers followed by the ET Riptides on Thursday. Sunday they will host the Arsenal National Team in Southampton at 12pm and 2:15pm.