NORTHBRIDGE – While their 15-year-old counterparts picked up a win back home at Bullens Field last night, Westfield’s 14-year-old Babe Ruth squad also convincingly took down a Worcester County opponent.
In defeating Northbridge 16-1 on their home turf yesterday, Westfield’s 14s emerged from their group 4-0, living up to their top seeding in their pool for the state’s Babe Ruth Sectional Tournament.
Westfield never let up, evidenced by the 21-hit barrage they put on the scorebook.
“It was a good win. We talked to the kids basically about accomplishing step one, which was to come out of pool play with a number one seed and into the state tournament with some good momentum,” said Westfield Coach John Bonini.
Bonini credited much of the evening’s success to pitcher Aiden Dunn, who went three innings, striking out four batters and allowing one run.
The real story of the night for Westfield was in the batters box.
“Offensively, Adam Kearing went two for four and scored two runs. Mitchell Longley went one for three with a double and scored two runs,” Bonini said, who is looking forward to this weekend’s state finals in Worcester.
“We play the second seed out of pool B, which is Worcester East Side, at 2 p.m.,” he said. “Pittsfield got the number one seed, as they went 4-0 as well. So Pittsfield will play Worcester West Side, who was the number two seed in our pool, at 5 p.m.”
Bonini said the winner of those two Saturday contests will be play in the state championship game Sunday at 4 p.m.
