April 11 GMC baseball roundup

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New Brunswick 5, Carteret 3: Wilson Gomez went 3-for-4 with a double, an RBI and two runs to pace the Zebras.

Winning pitcher Kalbin Rodriguez fanned 10, scattered five hits, allowed two earned runs and walked one over seven innings. His outing was 97 pitches.

Bryan App and Angelo Golino each had a hit, an RBI and a run for Carteret (2-3), which has dropped three straight.

Sayreville 3, North Brunswick 2: Kyle Richards, who ended the day 3-for-4, delivered a walk-off RBI single to help the Bombers (2-2) complete a series sweep of the Raiders (0-6).

Drew Zimmerman pitched a scoreless seventh to earn the win in relief of starter Jayson DeMild, who fanned 10, walked two, allowed two hits and one earned run over six innings.

Justin Garcia went 2-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored for North Brunswick, which scored single runs in the first and sixth innings. Andrew Tan also scored for the Raiders.

Ryan Casano went 1-for-3 and scored twice for Sayreville, which took a 2-1 lead in the third inning.

South River 12, Academy Charter 0: South River scored 12 runs on 13 hits for its first win of the year.

Louis Sasso (2-for-3 with two doubles and two RBI), RJ Fischer (3-for-3 with a double and an RBI) and Billy Drum (2-for-2 with an RBI) paced the Rams.

Winning pitcher Billy Marlow fanned four an allowed two hits.

Angel Rosario and Troy Jones got hits for Academy Charter

Old Bridge 4, Perth Amboy 0: Winning pitcher Connor Freel went the distance, allowing one hit with five strikeouts and two walks to help the Knights (3-2) complete a series sweep of the Panthers (0-4).

Freel threw an economical 80 pitches. Gary Galan had Perth Amboy’s lone hit.

Old Bridge parlayed four hits and five errors into four runs, three of which it scored in the sixth inning to give Freel some breathing room.

Virgilio Cabrera, who did not allow an earned run, was the hard-luck loser. He pitched five and two thirds innings, fanning six, walking two and allowing four hits. Old Bridge stranded seven runners.

Mike Russo (2-for-4) paced the Knights. Sonny Fauci and Rob Dacunto had Old Bridge’s other hits. Dacunto, Pasquale Fuda, Jalen Hernadnez and Rob Laconti each scored a run.

East Brunswick Tech 16, North 13th Street Tech 6: The undefeated Tigers collected 18 hits while winning their fourth straight.

Vincent Pellicane and rookie Garrett Allo went a combined 8-for-8 with five runs and four RBI.Joe Corsaro, Dylan Montuoro, and AJ Rambone each had two hits.

Winning pitcher RJ Jobin hurled five innings with five strikeouts for his second victory of the season.

East Brunswick 9, J.P. Stevens 3: The Bears (4-1) scored four runs in the fourth to erase a 1-0 deficit and scored five in the sixth to produce the final margin.

J.P. Stevens (1-3) was outhit 7-6. The combination of East Brunswick's win and South Brunswick's loss to Edison on Tuesday gave the Bears in sole possession of first place in the Red Division.

Ryan Flynn continued his torrid pace at the plate, going 3-for-4 with three RBI and a run scored. Mike Falco went 2-for-4 with a run and an RBI. Tyler Burnham singled and scored twice. Mike Sutton, Nick Martino, David Bermudez, Brad Edwards and Mat Nelson each scored for the Bears.

Winning pitcher Scott Deseel scattered six hits, fanned five, walked two and allowed two earned runs over six and a third innings. Reliever Joe Petcocelli retired the game’s final two batters.

Shiv Patel and Luke Jacobi each went 2-for-4 with a run scored for the Hawks. Steven Zederbaum singled and scored.

Monroe 3, St. Joseph 1: Right-hander Nick Payero went the distance, throwing 103 pitches, as Monroe avenged a 9-1 loss to salvage a series split with St. Joseph.

Payero threw 103 pitches. Teammate Dan Leitner went 2-for-3 for Monroe (2-2), which scored all its runs in the fourth inning off starting pitcher Kyle Subers. Leitner delivered a clutch RBI single.

St. Joseph (3-3) scored its lone run on Anthony Favor’s RBI double in the home fifth.

Jake Hellwig hurled three scoreless innings of relief for St. Joseph.

Subers worked out of a bases-loaded jam in the second and teammate Ross Maertz also helped keep Monroe off the board with an outfield assist at the plate in the first inning. Batterymate Brandon Warick threw a runner out stealing for the final out of the third inning.

Monroe botched a suicide squeeze attempt in the sixth with two away on an 0-2 delivery to the No. 2 batter in the lineup.

St. Joseph stranded two runners in the home third.

Colonia 3, South Plainfield 2: Winning pitcher Chris Michael went the distance, allowing one earned run on six hits as the Patriots (3-3) salvaged a series split with the previously undefeated Tigers (3-1).

Nick Nielson’s hard hit groundball to shortstop scored catcher Anthony Palmisano with Colonia’s first run in the second inning. Palmisano led off the frame with a triple.

Colonia added two more runs in the third. Frank Lehmann led off with a single and advanced to second on a wild pitch. Michael plated him with a single and Palmisano followed with an RBI double.

Palmisano went 3-for-3 on the day, finishing a home run shy of hitting for the cycle.

Micahel fanned four.

Edison 1, South Brunswick 0: Winning pitcher Jason Smith made the most of his first career varsity start, allowing one walk, two hits and striking out three while going the distance as the Eagles upset the Vikings, ranked No. 5 in the Home News Tribune Top 10.

The Eagles scored the game’s lone run in the top of the seventh. Mike Barbato reached on a one-out infield error before Christian Biolsi spoiled Marcus James’ no-hitter with a hit-and-run single through the vacated shortstop side of the infield. Barbato advanced to third on the play. He scored on a wild pitch that bounded just eight feet away from the catcher. Barbato made an excellent read to cross home in time.

Smith used just two pitches – a fastball and changeup – to keep the Vikings, who entered the contest averaging 7.8 runs per game, off balance. Smith often got his initial offering over for a strike.

“We noticed the box scores of the other games, but after playing them yesterday (falling 4-1), we thought we saw a few things that we might be able to take advantage of,” Edison head coach Vin Abene said. “Jason is a completely different pitcher (that Monday’s starter), a lefty whose ball tails away. If he’s getting the fastball over, the changeup keeps you off balance.”

Marco DiIusto and Alex Pollock each singled for South Brunswick (4-2), which was shut out for only the second time in its last 35 games.

Smith struck out three and walked one. James fanned five and walked two.

Edison snapped a three-game losing streak.