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East Windsor Recognizes Middle School Baseball Team For Making history

The Melvin H. Kreps Middle School baseball team made history by playing an undefeated 2023 season.

Mayor Janice Mironov (center) with the student-athletes from Melvin H. Kreps Middle School.
Mayor Janice Mironov (center) with the student-athletes from Melvin H. Kreps Middle School. (Office of the East Windsor Mayor)

EAST WINDSOR, NJ – The baseball team from Melvin H. Kreps Middle School recently made history by playing undefeated for the entire 2023 season.

For their achievements, Mayor Janice S. Mironov issued a Mayoral Proclamation recognizing and congratulating the team.

The Proclamation, noted that the Kreps Middle School Baseball Team “made history by playing undefeated for the entire 2023 season,” and “showed terrific character and determination during their undefeated season and their success has generated tremendous community pride and spirit within the entire East Windsor-Hightstown community.”

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The Kreps Middle School Team defeated baseball teams from neighboring communities including West Windsor-Plainsboro District Community Middle School and Thomas R. Grover Middle School, Ewing Fisher Middle School, Hopewell Valley District Timberlane Middle School, Millstone Township Middle School, Princeton Middle School, Robbinsville Pond Road Middle School and the Cranbury School.

Mironov said the township was very excited to recognize and celebrate the students. “This is an incredible team who demonstrated outstanding training, great skills, determination and spirit, and more importantly worked together as an effective team, to achieve these historic victories,” Mironov said. “Each player brought their individual talents and strengths to the team and along with effective coaching, and support of parents and community, they were able to go all the way.”

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A part of the Proclamation read: “The skills, energy and cooperative efforts by Team Captains Yanni Moraitis and Jackson Shannon, along with players James Boswell, Brian Drews, Benjamin Glatt, Slater Hauck, Shlok Kapoor, Zachary Nagle, Lucas Nunez, Humberto Rincon, Benjamin Rivenburgh, Seth Spearnock, Trevor Thompson, Evan Treese and James Whittington and coaches Evan Morris and Rob Cook led to the Team’s successful historic undefeated season.”

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