Bristol Eastern no-hit by New Britain Monday night

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Posted By: Jack Krampitz April 9, 2024

New Britain’s Alex Heidel threw a no-hitter against Bristol Eastern on Monday night, leading the Hurricanes to a 3-0 win over the Lancers.

Heidel, a senior left-hander, threw 88 pitches in his complete game effort, allowing just two baserunners.  Eastern’s Preston Guarda reached on an infield error in the second inning, while Caleb Molinsky walked in the third.  Heidel struck out six.

Eastern pitcher Declan Schenck matched Heidel over the first three innings, retiring nine of the first ten batters,  giving up just one hit, while throwing just 29 pitches through the three innings.    

Then in the fourth, New Britain’s Pat Costa singled to center to open the frame.  Schenck retired the next two batters, but with two outs, Landon Roberts and Alex Rosales both singled to score Costa with the game’s first run.

In the fourth, New Britain added two additional runs.  Anthony Fusco opened the inning with an infield single to deep short, was sacrificed to second, and scored on Kishan Pietersz’s double to left.  Singles by Costa and Gonzalez scored Pietersz with the final New Britain run.

Eastern is now 0-2 on the season, while New Britain improves to 2-1.

The Lancers have their home-opener Wednesday, hosting Maloney at 12:00.

BRISTOL EASTERN (0-2):   0  0  0    0  0  0    0     – – – –     0    0    0                                                             NEW BRITAIN (2-1):           0  0  0    1  2  0    x    – – – –      3    9    1

Bristol Eastern:  Declan Schenck    &  Owen Myers                                                                                    New Britain:   Alex Heidel    &    Landon Roberts

WP:  Heidel     LP:   Schenck

2B:  NB:  Israel Gonzalez, Kirhan Pietersz

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