By Michael Letendre
EAST HARTFORD – After a tough loss to Bristol Central the previous Monday, the Bristol Eastern baseball team made a loud response against East Hartford in CCC interdivisional play on Tuesday.
The Lancers collected 19 hits while receiving a complete game pitching effort from Caleb Molinsky as the squad defeated the Hornets by a 11-1 final on Tuesday afternoon from McKenna Field in East Hartford.
Eastern improved to 6-13 overall while East Hartford fell to 7-13.
On the hitting front, the Lancers’ Ben D’Amato went a perfect 4-for-4 at the plate with three singles and a double, scoring three runs and driving in one.
Brayden Schenck went 3-for-3 on three singles, scored a run and generated an RBI.
Mason Harris, Isaac Roberge, Rio Fernandez, and Kyle Babin all collected two hits apiece to lead the offense charge for the Lancers.
Molinsky was on the money, allowing four hits, one run, striking out 10 and walking just one over seven tough innings.
He retired the side in order in three of the innings, facing just 28 batters overall.
The game was scoreless until the top of the third when Eastern scored three times and then added runs in each inning thereafter.
And those crooked numbers really started to add up in the end.
In the third tilt, D’Amato and Roberge each drove in runs to help the Lancers snare a 3-0 lead.
Eastern added two runs in the fourth as an RBI single from Harris and a run scoring error made it a 5-0 tilt after four innings.
The cushion grew to 8-0 in the fifth as the Lancers collected six hits in the stanza.
A two-run single by Connor Cyr and a run scoring base hit from Schenck helped put the game away with the Kingstreeters ahead by eight runs.
The teams traded runs in the sixth with the Lancers seizing a 9-1 lead by the completion of the frame.
D’Amato opened the top of the sixth inning with a double to left center, scoring on a sacrifice fly by Roberge, as the contest was all but over.
And to add a little icing on the cake in the top of the seventh, an RBI single from Gabe White and a double off the bat of Harris scored the final two runs as Eastern won big on the road, 11-1.
Bristol Eastern Baseball – CCC Interdivisional Play
BRISTOL EASTERN 11, EAST HARTFORD 1
from McKenna Field, East Hartford
Bristol Eastern (6-13) 003 231 2 – 11 19 1
East Hartford (7-13) 000 001 0 – 1 4 5
Battery – Bristol Eastern: Caleb Molinsky & Rio Fernandez; East Hartford: Dom Laduca, Danny Rodriguez (5), Matt Curry (7) & Jayden Dombroski.
WP: Molinsky (Bristol Eastern); LP: Laduca (East Hartford)
Bristol Eastern Batting
2B – Isaac Roberge, Ben D’Amato, Mason Harris
3B – None
HR – None
East Hartford Batting
2B – Dom Laduca, Jaiden Rodriguez
3B – None
HR – None
Records: Bristol Eastern 6-13 overall; East Hartford 7-13
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