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Nastasi, Dellacona Blank B-R Trojans in OCL Tilt
Heading into the final week of its regular season, the 11-3 Barnstable High School baseball team rode quality starting and relief pitching en route to a 7-0 win over the visiting Bridgewater-Raynham Trojans yesterday afternoon at Barnstable High School.
It's pretty tough for an opponent to beat you when your pitchers allow just a handful of baserunners and those same pitchers strike out 14 batters.
Senior starter Willie Nastasi turned in seven strong, shutout innings yesterday versus the visiting Bridgewater-Raynham Trojans, striking out 11 batters, scattering three basehits and walking just two batters. Senior righty Keegan Dellacona came on in the 8th and 9th frames and allowed one hit and fanned three batters. The 7-0 victory was Nastasi's 4th win of the 2012 campaign. He is now 4-0 as the Red Raiders ready to welcome D-Y on Monday.
Nastasi and Dellacona got all the run support they would need in the bottom of the third inning thanks to a Luke Besse sacrifice fly. Sophomore Derek Estes, who played in just his second varsity game and has done a superlative defensive job at shortstop, got things rolling when he led off the inning with a walk, stole second base and then moved to third on a Denny Beynor sacrifice bunt. Besse then drove in Estes with a liner to centerfield on a 2-2 count.
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Besse was the sole Red Raider to register multiple hits on the day, going 2-3 with two RBI. Estes collected his first-ever varsity hit in the sixth inning, Mark Brodd had an infield hit, Ty Adams had an RBI-double and Denny Beynor had an RBI-single in the 8th inning.
In addition to its one run scored in the 3rd inning, Barnstable picked up another run in the 5th inning when Beynor led off with a walk, stole second, and scored on a Besse single to make it 2-0. Besse advanced to third on a two-base error in the outfield and then scored on Adams' double to make it 3-0.
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The Red Raiders picked up a fourth run in the sixth inning when Everett Walsh laced one into centerfield and it caromed off the centerfielder's glove. He stole third base and came home on a wild pitch to make it 4-0.
Adams led off the 7th inning with a walk and moved to second on a Dylan Morris sac bunt, then advanced to third on a steal. He scored on a Dan Walsh grounder to short that was misplayed.
The Red and White tacked on two more runs in the 8th inning when his routine fly to right popped out of the rightfielder's mitt, then took second on the error. Beynor then ripped one down the leftfield line to make it 6-0,scoring Estes. Beynor scored the 7th and final run on a well-executed delayed steal by Besse after Besse singled to put men on 1st and 3rd.
