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Masuk 2, Newtown 3
Varsity Baseball

Champs! Hawks Steal One From Masuk As Curtis Swipes Home Plate (By Andy Hutchison of The Newtown Bee)

Bethel, CT — Call him Charlie Hustle. Newtown High School’s Charlie Curtis darted home with the South-West Conference Championship-clinching run in the bottom of the seventh inning. Newtown High School’s baseball team stole one from Masuk of Monroe, 3-2, at neutral site Bethel High on May 25.

Stratford 1, Newtown 3
Varsity Baseball

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
Varsity Baseball

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
Varsity Baseball

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.

Newtown 10, Bunnell 1
Varsity Baseball

Sluggers Break Out The Bats In Win Over Bunnell Bulldogs (By Andy Hutchison of the Newtown Bee)

Stratford, CT — Pitching and power — anticipated to be the team’s areas of strength — were on full display when Newtown High School’s baseball team defeated the host Bunnell of Stratford Bulldogs 10-1 for their first win of the young campaign.