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Montville Shuts Out Verona
Tuesday, July 30, 2002
In the championship finals of the Suburban League, Montville defeated
Verona at home in a game dominated by pitching. Paul Whitman, our winning
pitcher, struck out 4 and gave up only 1 single and no runs in 3 innings.
Eric Schenk got the save, pitching the last 3 innings, striking out 2,
allowing no runs and no hits. Montville pitching was backed up by
excellent
defensive plays including Dan Sules's line drive catch for the first out
in
the 5th inning and then a quick, accurate throw to first base to assist in
the 2nd out by catching the Verona runner off base.
Like Montville, Verona's pitching was also at it's best
but not good
enough to stop us from scoring the only run we would need to win in the
bottom of the third inning.
With one out in the bottom of the third, Eric Rose, filling in for absent
team members, singled and stole second; Matt Kaiser walked and Paul Bello
reached first on an error. With bases loaded, Paul Whitman hit a towering
sacrifice fly ball caught in RF and brought home Rose for the winning RBI
of
the final game of the season!
Final Score: Montville 1, Verona 0
Congratulations to the team for a wonderful, rewarding,
exciting,
all-time- consuming season. Congratulations to all of the coaches for all
of
your hard work and devotion. And thank you to all of the parents and
supporters of the team for all that you have done to contribute to this
memorable season.
Sunday, July 28, 2002
In round two of the league's play-offs, Montville defeated Kinnelon in
their semi-final game. Paul Whitman was the winning pitcher striking out
2,
allowing 5 hits and no runs with 5 LOB. Eric Schenk pitched the last 3
innings with 1 K, allowing only 1 hit and no runs. Montville played
excellent
defense with outstanding plays made at 2B by Dan Sules handling 4 infield
ground balls and assisting in those 4 outs. Jeremy Mizraji took control of
a
short grounder to first and had an unassisted double play tagging the base
and the first base runner.
Montville took the lead in the bottom half of the 2nd inning sending 11
batters to the plate. Jeremy Mizraji lead off with a double, Eric Schenk
singled, Ali Maqsudi singled what would be the winning run bringing
Mizraji
home, Dan Sules singled Schenk home, Matt Kaiser hit a double scoring
Maqsudi
and Sules, Adam Kornbluh singled, Travis Warech hit a sacrifice fly and
brought Kaiser home, Paul Bello singled Kornbluh home, and Paul Whitman
tripled bringing home Bello. Montville 7, Kinnelon 0. Montville scored the
next 3 runs in the bottom of the 5th. Danny Falk doubled, Cody Phillips
singled, Kaiser singled Falk home, Kornbluh walked, and Warech hit a
single
scoring Phillips and Kaiser.
Final Score: Montville 10, Kinnelon 0
July 22, 2002
On their last day of regular season play, Montville played Wayne Blue at
home and was defeated for only the second time in this regular season.
Losing
pitcher Paul Whitman faced Wayne Blue in the last 2 innings. The game was
close all along and the 6th inning started with Montville ahead by one run
but Wayne Blue was able to score the tying run in the top of the 6th and
Montville was unable to score in the bottom of the 6th. Wayne Blue scored
4
runs in the top of the 7th which included a 2 RBI homerun. Montville was
scoreless in their chance in the bottom of the 7th inning. Ali Maqsudi
made 3
tough catches, 2 in RF and 1 in LF and Dan Sules also made 2 challenging
outs
at 2nd base. Matt Kaiser hit 2/4 with a leadoff triple and 1 RBI. Paul
Bello
had 2 doubles and 3 RBI's.
Final Score: Wayne Blue 10, Montville 6
July 22, 2002
The Verona vs. Montville game, rained out on June 27, 2002, was completed
after Montville's loss to Wayne Blue. The game was resumed in the bottom
of
the 4th inning with Montville at bat and down by 3 runs. In the top of the
6th inning, Verona scored 3 runs against pitchers, Ali Maqsudi and Adam
Kornbluh. Montville was only able to score another 2 runs in the bottom of
the 6th with an RBI single by Dan Sules and Jeremy Mizraji stole home.
Final Score: Verona: 8 Montville 4
July 20, 2002
The collective pitching of Montville's Travis Warech (winning
pitcher),
Ali Maqsudi, Danny Falk and Jeremy Mizraji shut out Montclair allowing no
hits, one run and 7 K's. Montville's bats continue to be hot with a total
of
18 hits today. Jerry Elsing hit his 3rd homerun of the season and Jeremy
Mizraji hit 4/4 with 2 singles, a double and a triple. Jerry and Jeremy
contributed 3 RBI's apiece.
Final Score: Montville 15, Montclair 1
July 17, 2002
On the last day of their 4 game road trip, Montville played Totowa for
the first time this season defeating them soundly and collecting 28 hits
over
all. Matt Kaiser and Paul Bello had a triple apiece. Doubles were hit by
Kaiser, Paul Whitman, Jeremy Mizraji, Eric Schenk, Danny Falk, Ali Maqsudi
and Dan Sules. Top RBI producers were Kaiser(3), Travis Warech(3),
Bello(4),
Mizraji(3), Jerry Elsing(3) and Schenk(4). (Coach Whitman announced after
the
game that an RBI produced by Bello and scored by Warech was the 200th run
of
our season.) Jerry Elsing was the winning pitcher striking out 5 of the 9
batters he faced, allowing only 2 hits and 1 run. Ali Maqsudi pitched 2
innings, struck out 3 and allowed no hits. Matt Kaiser pitched the last
inning with 1 K, allowing 3 hits and 2 runs.
Final Score: Montville 25 Totowa 3
July 16, 2002
Montville played Wayne Gold away after defeating them 2 weeks ago at
home
during the M.E.T. Winning pitcher, Paul Whitman struck out 4 of the 7
batters
he faced allowing only 1 hit. Lead off hitter, Matt Kaiser went 2/2 with a
walk, a single, a triple and 2 RBI's. Ali Maqsudi hit 2/3 with 3 RBI's.
Final Score: Montville 9 Wayne Gold 2
July 15, 2002
The Montville 11 y.o.'s competed against West Orange in the 2nd game
of
their road trip. Jerry Elsing, winning pitcher, pitched the first 3
innings.
The 1st inning proved the most difficult for Jerry, who gave up 5 hits and
3
runs but faced only 6 batters in the next 2 innings, striking out 1. Eric
Schenk pitched the next 2 innings, facing only 6 batters with 1 K and
allowing no hits. Danny Falk closed out the 6th inning, striking out 1.
Danny
got into a bit of trouble early in the inning allowing 5 hits and 3 runs
but
ended the game by handling the last 2 outs himself. Paul Whitman went 3/3
with a walk, 3 doubles and 4 RBI's. Matt Kaiser went 2/3 with a walk and a
double. Adam Kornbluh was 2/4 with 2 RBI's. Paul Bello hit 1/3 with a
walk, a
double and 2 RBI's. Dan Sules was 1/3 with 2 RBI's. Jeremy Mizraji hit 2
doubles with 2 RBI's and Jerry Elsing went 2/4 with 2 RBI's.
Final Score: Montville 17 West Orange 6
Saturday July 13, 2002
Montville American 11
Cedar Grove 6
In a battle for 1st place in the Suburban, Montville went on the road to
attmpt to beat Cedar Grove for the 3rd time of the season.
Capitalizing on 2 errors and hits by Jeremy Mizraji and Eric Schenk,
Montville broke on top 4-0 in the top of the 2nd. Cedar Grove
battled back with single runs off starting and winning pitcher Paul
Whitman. Montvile added 2 more in the 4th after lead off
singles by Jerry Elsing and Dan Falk. With Jerry Elsing relieving in
the 4th, Cedr Grove battled back with 3 more runs on 5 hits. A throw
from Ali Maqsudi in right field nailed a runner out at the plate to hold
the score at 6-5. After Mat Kaiser walked, Travis Warech singled and
Paul Bello singled, Montville added 4 more in the 5th on RBI hits by Paul
Whitman and Jerry Elsing. Travis Warech struke out the final batter
of the game with the bases load to propel Montville into 1st place.
July 9, 2002
After having completed 9 days of exclusive
tournament play totaling 11
games, Montville resumed regular season play against East Hanover at home.
This E. Hanover team has traditionally, over the past 2 years, been a
difficult team for Montville to compete with but Montville changed that
this
year. Against 4 of their pitchers, Montville had 24 hits including doubles
by
Matt Kaiser(2), Paul Whitman and Jeremy Mizraji and a triple by Jeremy.
But
by far the most exciting at bats were by Jerry Elsing. Jerry batted twice
in
the 4th inning and hit his first 2 fence clearing HOMERUNS in that
inning!!
Travis Warech was the winning pitcher with 1 K, allowing 5 hits and only 1
run.
Final Score: Montville 20 East Hanover 3
JULY 6, 2002
FLORHAM PARK 3
MONTVILLE 2
Despite having scored 57 runs in their first four round robin games of
the Montville Eleven YO Tournament, Montville only scored twice against
Florham Park in the semi-final game on July 6th. Winning pitcher, Steve
Frakoski struck out 2, gave up 2 hits and no runs. Steve also went 2/3
with a
double in the top of the 6th scoring the winning run for Florham Park.
July 7, 2002
Montville played their last ball game of the Montville Eleven YO
Tournament on July 7th against Cedar Grove vying for 3rd place in
tournament
play. The combination of winning pitcher, Paul Whitman and closer Jerry
Elsing shut out Cedar Grove for a 7-0 win for Montville. Whitman struck
out 3
and allowed only 2 hits. Elsing struck out 5 of the 6 batters he faced.
Montville's Danny Falk hit his first career fence clearing HOMERUN in the
2nd
inning to give Montville a 3-0 lead. Travis Warech and Paul Bello each hit
a
double with 1 RBI each for Montville.
Final Score - MONTVILLE - 7, CEDAR GROVE - 0
July 5th, 2002
In their 2nd game of the day, Montville faced Blairstown in
the finals of the Cal Ripken Tournament. Blairstown's ace pitcher held
Montville to only 4 runs in the first 3 innings with doubles by Jerry
Elsing(2), Danny Falk and Paul Bello. Elsing, starting pitcher for
Montville
got into trouble early in the bottom of the first inning giving up 3 runs
but
was able to end the inning with a strike out and 3 more K's over the next
2
innings. Blairstown scored once again in the 3rd inning and twice in the
4th
to defeat Montville and earn first place in the tournament.
Final Score: Blairstown 6, Montville 4
MONTVILLE ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD TOURNAMENT - JULY 5, 2002
MONTVILLE 19
BLOOMFIELD 12
After playing a double header and winning both on the 4th of July, the
Montville 11 y.o.'s prepared for another double-header on Friday, July
5th.
They faced Bloomfield in round robin play for their first game of the day.
Montville started yesterday 3-0 in tournament play having already defeated
Wayne Gold, Long Valley, and Cedar Grove.
Adam Kornbluh and Ali Maqsudi each pitched 2 innings against Bloomfield
giving up a total of 13 hits and 10 runs. Eric Schenk, the winning
pitcher,
closed the last 2 innings allowing 5 hits and 2 runs. Eric made the 2nd
out
in the bottom of the 5th on an appeal play at Home after a Bloomfield
runner
crossed home but never touched the plate.
Although Bloomfield hit hard, Montville hit harder.
Adam Kornbluh went
3/5 with a double and 3 RBI's. Paul Bello went 2/4 with a double, a triple
and 2 RBI's. Travis Warech hit 4/5 with 2 RBI's. The rest of the team,
Paul
Whitman, Matt Kaiser, Jerry Elsing, Adam Schenk, Danny Falk, Ali Maqsudi,
Jeremy Mizraji and Dan Sules contributed a total of 13 singles and 11
RBI's.
Mike Persky was the losing pitcher for Bloomfield allowing 9 hits and 9
runs
in the top of the 5th inning. Chris Dellipaoli, who pitched the first 4
innings for Bloomfield, went 2/2 with a 2 RBI HR and Danny Grovenstein
went
3/3 with 2 RBI's.
Montville, now 4-0 in their own tournament, will play a
semifinal game
tonight, July 6th, at 7pm against Florham Park.
On the fourth of July in the blistering heat, Montville played
their 4th game of the Cal Ripken Tournament facing Blairstown. Winning
pitcher, Travis Warech, pitched the first 2 innings striking out 2 and
gave
up 2 hits and 1 run. Montville's Paul Whitman hit 3/3 with 1 RBI, Paul
Bello:
1/3 with a double and 2 RBI's; Ali Maqsudi: 2/3 with 1 RBI; Danny Falk:
1/2
with 2 RBI's; Travis Warech: 2/2 with 1 RBI. With 2 outs in the bottom of
the
first, Montville scored 6 of their total runs with 7 hits.
Final Score: Montville 9, Blairstown 3
Montville played their 2nd game of the day and 3rd game of the
M.E.T. against Cedar Grove on July 4th. As in the first game of the day,
Montville scored 6 runs in the bottom of the 1st with RBI's by Paul
Whitman,
Jeremy Mizraji, Danny Falk(2), and Ali Maqsudi(2) and 5 runs in the bottom
of
the 5th with RBI's by Travis Warech(2), Dan Sules, Whitman and Falk. Paul
Bello got the win for Montville allowing only 2 runs to score in the top
of
the first.
Final
Score: Montville 11, Cedar Grove 2
July 3rd, 2002
Montville played their third game of the Cal Ripken Tournament against
Mount Olive. Jerry Elsing pitched 3 and 2/3 innings giving up five hits
and
three runs. Eric Schenk relieved Jerry in the top of the third and struck
out
the batter for the last out of the inning. Eric then faced ten more
batters
in the game allowing only three hits and no runs. Montville took an early
lead with four runs in the first inning started with a double by leadoff
hitter Matt Kaiser. Montville collected another three runs in the fourth
and
fifth innings to defeat Mount Olive.
Final Score: Montville 9, Mount Olive 3
July 1st, 2002
The Montville 11 y.o.'s played their second game of the Cal Ripken
District 7 Tournament against Blairstown. Paul Whitman pitched the first
three innings facing eleven batters with three K's and allowing only one
hit.
Likewise, good pitching by Blairstown held Montville scoreless in the
first
three innings. In the top of the fourth, Montville's bats came alive with
singles by Travis Warech, Paul Whitman, Jeremy Mizraji, Danny Falk, and
Matt
Kaiser. Montville sent nine batters to the plate and scored three runs.
Montville led 3-0. Warech and Bello pitched the last three innings but
were
unable to hold onto the Montville lead. Blairstown scored once in the
fourth
and twice in the fifth which tied the score. Back to back doubles in the
bottom of the sixth scored the winning run for Blairstown.
Final Score: Blairstown 4, Montville 3
Sunday June 30th, 2002
The Montville 11 y.o.'s played their second game of the M.E.T. (and their
second game of the day) against Long Valley. Jerry Elsing pitched the
first
three innings facing only ten batters with two K's and no runs scored.
With
two outs in the bottom of the second inning, Danny Falk doubled followed
by
four consecutive singles by Dan Sules, Ali Maqsudi, Eric Schenk, and Adam
Kornbluh giving Montville a 4-0 lead. In the top of the fourth, Elsing
gave
up three singles and two runs to Long Valley. Montville extended their
lead
in the bottom of the fourth when Ali Maqsudi doubled Danny Falk home.
(Montville 5, Long Valley 2). In the top of the fifth inning with Eric
Schenk
pitching, Long Valley scored another three runs tying the score at 5-5. In
the bottom of the fifth, Montville scored another two runs off of doubles
by
Travis Warech and Paul Whitman and a single by Matt Kaiser. Paul Bello
pitched the top of the sixth inning facing only four batters with no runs
scored.
Final Score: Montville 7, Long Valley 5
On Sunday, June 30th
Montville started play in the Cal
Ripken District 7
Tournament in Mt. Olive against the host team. Paul Whitman pitched the
first
3 innings and gave up 7 hits and 3 runs. Travis pitched the last 3 innings
giving up only one hit, struck out 3 batters and allowed no runs.
Montville
scored twice in the 2nd and 3rd innings with RBI's by Paul Bello, Dan
Sules
and Adam Kornbluh(2). With 2 out in the top of the 5th inning, Adam came
through again with a single out to RF scoring Paul Whitman who had singled
as
the first batter of the inning.
Final Score: Montville 5, Mount Olive 3
On Saturday, June 29th, the Montville 11 y.o.'s played
their first game of
the Montville Tournament (M.E.T.) against Wayne Gold. Montville had their
hitting and scoring shoes on today because everyone hit & everyone
scored at
least once. Eric Schenk: 2/3 with a walk and a double; Paul Bello: 2/4;
Travis Warech: 4/4 with 2 doubles; Paul Whitman: ¼; Jerry Elsing: 3/3
with a
walk (Jerry, who's been working on his speed on bases, scored four times);
Jeremy Mizraji: 3/3 with a walk and a double and a triple; Danny Falk: ¾
with
a double; Dan Sules: 1/3 with a walk; Adam Kornbluh: 2/2 with a walk; Ali
Maqsudi: ½ with a walk. Montville pitchers, Jerry Elsing and Ali Maqsudi
limited Wayne Gold to only 4 hits and no runs. The game ended after 4
complete innings.
Final Score: Montville 20, Wayne Gold 0
June 28, 2002
The Montville 11 y.o.'s experienced their first loss of the season to
North
Caldwell after winning 4 in a row. Playing away, Montville was scoreless
in
the first 3 innings. N. Caldwell scored twice in the 1st and 3rd innings.
Montville attempted a comeback in the top of the 4th scoring 2 runs off
singles by Travis Warech and Danny Falk. Montville's 3rd run came in the
5th.
Jerry Elsing singled, Ali Maqsudi advanced him to second and Eric Schenk
hit
a deep fly ball caught in CF to bring Jerry home. Montville threatened
again
in the top of the 6th when, with 2 out Paul Whitman walked and Danny
Falk
hit a deep, high ball to LF that was caught for the final out.
Final Score: North Caldwell 4, Montville 3
June 25, 2002
Montville played Caldwell away and came up with their 4th win in a row.
Jerry
Elsing pitched the first 3 innings and ran into trouble early in the
first.
After walking the first 2 batters & giving up one run, Jerry finished
the
inning with 3 K's. He finished the next 2 innings facing 7 batters with 2
more K's and some help from Dan Sules catching a high fly ball in RF. Ali
Maqsudi pitched the 4th inning giving up only one run with one K. Eric
Schenk
pitched the last two innings striking out two batters and gave up only one
hit/inning. Travis Warech hit 2/3 with a double and 2 RBI's. Paul Whitman
went 2/3 with a triple and 1 RBI. Adam Kornbluh and Jeremy Mizraji had one
RBI apiece.
Final Score: Montville 5, Caldwell 2
June 27, 2002
Montville vs. Verona was rained out in the bottom of the fourth inning
with
Montville batting. Game to be continued at a later date. Verona was
leading.
June 22, 2002
Montville played their 3rd game of the season at home against Glen Ridge
winning 4-3. Glen Ridge took an early lead in the top of the first scoring
2
runs but pitcher, Paul Whitman, struck out the last batter of the inning
to
end it and allowed no more runs, striking out 3 more batters in his first
3
innings. Travis Warech pitched the last 3 innings, striking out 2 batters
and
allowing only one more run in the top of the 6th inning. Paul Whitman went
2/3 with 3 RBI's and Travis Warech hit 2/2 with a walk and 1 RBI. The rest
of
the team helped defensively with great plays including 2 difficult fly
balls
caught by Paul Bello in CF.
Final Score: Montville 4, Glen Ridge 3
June 20, 2002
Exactly like their first game, Montville's 11 y.o.'s totaled 16 hits at
their
first away game against Livingston. Speedy Matt Kaiser, leading off the
batting order, hit 3/3 with a walk and a RBI, Paul Bello went 3/3 with a
walk
and 3 RBI's, Dan Falk went 2/3 with 2 RBI'S and Jerry Elsing went 2/2 with
a
walk and one RBI.
After a shaky first inning for Montville when Livingston scored their
first 3
runs, Montville was able to hold them to only one more run in the bottom
of
the fifth. Jerry Elsing was Montville's winning pitcher.
Final Score: Montville 9, Livingston 4
The Montville American 11 y.o. Team played their first
game of the summer
season on June 18, 2002 on their home field against East Hanover
Nationals.
The team's combination of 16 hits overall & strategic base running
gave
Montville a commanding lead very early in the game. Montville sent 14
players
to the plate and scored 9 runs in the bottom of the first inning.
Travis Warech pitched the first 2 scoreless innings for Montville and was
the
winning pitcher. With our comfortable 12 run lead going into the 3rd
inning,
Coach Whitman shared the rest of the pitching duties between Eric Schenk,
Ali
Maqsudi, Jerry Elsing and Dan Falk.
Paul Whitman went 3/3 with 2 singles and a double, Matt Kaiser went 3/4
with
3 singles, Paul Bello 2/2 with a walk, Jeremy Mizraji 1/3 with a triple,
Adam
Kornbluh 1/3 with a walk and Dan Sules 1/2 with a walk.
Final Score: Montville 12, East Hanover 3
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Batting Team Leaders
Batting Average - 400+ Club
Matt Kaiser .514
Travis Warech .494
Paul Bello .452
Paul Whitman .447
Jeremy Mizraji .443
Ali Maqsudi .400
HR's
Jerry Elsing 3
Dan Falk 1
Triples
Matt Kaiser 3
Jeremy Mizraji 3
Paul Bello 2
Adam Kornbluh 1
Travis Warech 1
Paul Whitman 1
Doubles
Jeremy Mizraji 12
Travis Warech 10
Dan Falk 9
Hits
Travis Warech 38
Paul Whitman 38
Matt Kaiser 36
Jeremy Mizraji 35
Games Played
(everyone played in every game they attended)
Dan Falk 28
Ali Maqsudi 28
Eric Schenk 28
Paul Whitman 28
Longest Hitting Streak
Jeremy Mizraji 18
Ali Maqsudi 9
Runs Scored
Travis Warech 32
Paul Bello 30
Paul Whitman 29
Matt Kaiser 28
Walks/HP
Paul Bello 18
Dan Sules 17
Adam Kornbluh 16
On Base %
Matt Kaiser .580
Travis Warech .554
Paul Bello .543
Dan Sules .469
Pitching ERA
Paul Whitman 1.56
Eric Schenk 1.68
Travis Warech 2.54
Pitching Wins
Paul Whitman 7
Jerry Elsing 6
Travis Warech 5
Paul Bello 3
Innings Pitched
Eric Schenk 35.67
Paul Whitman 34.67
Jerry Elsing 32.33
Pitching K's
Jerry Elsing 29
Paul Whitman 28
Travis Warech 23
Opponents Batting Average
Paul Whitman .221
Travis Warech .225
Ali Maqsudi .231
Eric Schenk .252
Jerry Elsing .264
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