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Stratford 1, Newtown 3
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Opponent In A Pickle: Rundown, Base Running, Pitching Help Sluggers Win (By Andy Hutchison of The Newtown Bee)

Sandy Hook, CT — Newtown High School’s baseball team manufactured runs with aggressive base running — eight successful steals in nine attempts — and prevented runs with stellar pitching and fielding, including a wild rundown, to earn a 3-1 victory over visiting Stratford on May 5.

Newtown 6, Brookfield 2
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Hawk Sluggers Top Tough Brookfield, Put Up Crooked Numbers In Win Over Kolbe (By Andy Hutchison of The Newtown Bee)

Brookfield, CT — Newtown High School’s baseball team visited Brookfield on May 3 and handed the Bobcats only their second loss with a 6-2 victory. Jake Hossler pitched a complete game four-hitter, walking two and striking out eight. Ryan Verdi had three hits, including a double and homer, knocked in two runs, and scored a run. Matt Pietrorazio had a hit, walk, two runs batted in, and run scored. Josh Rosen singled, drove in a run, and scored. Sam D’Aprile walked and scored. Hayden Conklin had two hits and an RBI. The Nighthawks fell behind 2-0 after two innings and put up all of their runs in the fourth inning.

New Fairfield 6, Newtown 8
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Picking Each Other Up: Hawk Sluggers Get Contributions From Throughout Lineup (By Andy Hutchison of The Newtown Bee)

Sandy Hook, CT — Perhaps more than in any other sport, baseball requires clutch contributions from different individuals on any given day. With a batting lineup of nine hitters and a pitching rotation of a handful of hurlers, along with a relief corps, not to mention bench players, there is no telling who will come through from one contest to the next. For Newtown High School’s baseball team, this has been all the more prevalent with some younger and bench players stepping in — and stepping up — in the absence of starters put due to injury and illness.

Preseason Newton Bee Article
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Pitching And Power: Baseball Team Primed To Compete With The Best (By Andy Hutchison of the Newtown Bee)

Sandy Hook, CT — Some teams win behind the strong pitching. Others sparked by their hitting. Newtown High School’s baseball team looks to both as the Nighthawks try to make some noise in the postseason.

Newtown 13, Notre Dame Catholic 0
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Clutch Hitting, Sophomore Sensation Burns Through Lineup (By Andy Hutchison of the Newtown Bee)

Fairfield, CT — Sophomore Will Burns tossed four dominant innings as the visiting Newtown High School baseball team earned a five-inning, mercy-rule 13-0 triumph at Notre Dame-Fairfield, on April 30.

Notre Dame Catholic 0, Newtown 10
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Burns, Bats Lift Baseball Team To Confidence-Boosting 10-0 Triumph (By Andy Hutchison of the Newtown Bee)

Sandy Hook, CT — Coach Ian Thoesen said during preseason that his team’s biggest strengths were on the pitching mound and in the batter’s box. Both assets were on display in his Newtown High School baseball team’s 10-0 rout of visiting Notre Dame-Fairfield, on a chilly, damp April 16 afternoon.