Rye Brook Little League Team Suffers Shutout

Rye Brook's 2010 12 and under Little League tournament team suffered a 12-0 shut out to Elmsford Tuesday.

In the loser's bracket game at Gillie Park in White Plains, Elmsford jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the first inning before capitalizing on Rye Brook's mistakes to go ahead 12-0 in the top of the fourth.

Rye Brook allowed only two runs in the second inning and one in the third inning before Elmsford tallied five more runs in the fourth to push further ahead for the eventual 12-0 victory.

Rye Brook attempted to score, but was stopped by Elmford's defensive plays.

The game ended after the fourth since at least 10 runs were scored and four at bats taken.

Rye Brook Coach John DiCanio said that Elmsford is  good enough to maintain leads when attempting a comeback.

"They are too good a team to play catch up against," DiCanio said.

But DiCanio said that Rye Brook had a good season, beating Dobbs Ferry 9-2 in his team's first tournament game, but then losing to Sherman Park, 10-0, in a similar game to Tuesday's.

DiCanio said Rye Brook has weaknesses that need to be improved.

"We don't have the fire to comeback," he said.

Even though Rye Brook's Little League season is over, players and coaches will be involved with summer league games starting this week.

Chris Dutra pitched two innings for Rye Brook.  Austin Lavitt pitched two innings as well, retiring eight batters.