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Keene SwampBats Offense Quiet in Loss
(MyKeeneNow) The Vermont Mountaineers held the SwampBats to three hits and won 6-3 on Monday. Vermont took the lead in the bottom of the first on a bases-loaded two-run double to the right field warning track. After re-loading the bases and forcing the SwampBats into an early pitching change, a deflected groundout to second made it 3-0. After a nice 1-4-3 double play began the bottom of the second, Vermont produced a two-out rally. They drew a walk, and then hit back-to-back singles to score a run before their fifth hitter Carlos Martinez hit his second two-run double in the first two innings, putting the Mountaineers up 6-0. As it looked like the league’s top team was going to run away with it, some fireworks in the third tightened up the game. Vermont Manager Mitch Holmes was ejected after arguing constantly over the strike zone. Immediately after, all-star Joe Jaconski (Penn State) walked to put runners at first and second. All-star Jake Koonin (Princeton) came up next and drilled a three-run home run halfway up the scoreboard in left field. It was his league-leading ninth home run of the season. After the game, Koonin said “he threw me a first pitch heater and I felt like I had him timed up pretty well.” Vermont’s dugout remained incensed after the ejection of their manager and third-baseman Brennan Norton followed suit by getting tossed in between innings.
Keene SwampBats Hold Down Westerners
The Keene SwampBats left 20 runners on base, but scored three times late in a 5-2 win at the Danbury Westerners on Saturday. In the bottom of the first, the Westerners hit a single to right with a runner on first, and as the throw went to third, shortstop Austin Hawke (Wake Forest) cut it off and threw behind the runner at first to get a huge out and help Nick Timpanelli (Charleston Southern) through the frame. The SwampBats loaded the bases with one out in the second on singles from Brett House (Mississippi State) and Andrew Wiggins (Indiana), and a walk from Hawke. The next two hitters were retired to keep the game scoreless. Danbury had a runner at third and no one out in the bottom half, but Timpanelli got a strikeout, a foulout, and a flyout to get out of it. In the next inning, Danbury had a one out infield single, a walk, and then an RBI single to take a 1-0 lead.
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