Montville Baseball Drops Second Straight

The baseball team lost to High Point 7-2 on Monday afternoon in Montville. The loss was the team's second straight after opening the season 14-0, and just two days after the Mustangs lost to Roxbury in the Morris County Tournament semifinals.

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IN SHORT
Montville trailed 3-1 entering the fifth but surrendered four runs in the top of the inning after High Point sent ten batters to the plate. The Mustangs were kept off balance and only managed six hits on the day after entering the game with a .440 team average.

Brian Keane had an RBI double in the third inning that plated Chris Cerami after he reached on an error. The bats were silent until the sixth when Jordan Gajdos drove in a run with his one out single. However, with two runners on, the Mustangs could not capitalize on the opportunity.

MUSTANG OF THE GAME
Brian Keane-His RBI double in the third opened the scoring for the Mustangs and at the time cut the High Point lead to two. He also pitched a scoreless seventh inning.

OTHER KEY PERFORMANCES
Anthony Altieri-Pitched 1 1/3 innings in relief while only surrendering one hit with three strikeouts. He also scored the second Montville run.
Carmen Cerreto-He had two of the team’s six total hits, but was thrown out at the plate in the third inning when Montville attempted a double steal.

COACH’S TAKE
“We left our sticks in the locker room I guess. To this point we have hit very well as a team and we have been putting up about 10 or 12 runs a game. It’s a law of averages I guess and you can’t expect to keep that type of pace up. We’ll see what happens and how we bounce back tomorrow.”-Head Coach Joseph Cardinale

THEY SAID IT
“High Point’s pitcher was throwing breaking balls early in the count to get ahead and he located his fastball. Granted we hit some really hard balls that were caught, but he threw strikes. When you can throw two pitches for a strike at this level, you can be effective and today he was.”-Cardinale

UP NEXT-At Mount Olive on Tuesday at at 4 p.m.