Suburban Travel 11Bs CHAMPIONS!!!!

Tri-Township Baseball's 11 year old B team completed an incredible season Sunday morning.

The team of fifteen 11 year olds went 12-2 during the regular season finishing the regular season with hard fought victories over the ultimate second and third place regular season teams Pennsbury and Solebury. Then these fifteen boys stepped it up to a higher level, a level of true teamplay for the playoffs. Over three games this weekend, every single player contributed at the plate, on the base paths and on the field, as they won 3 consecutive victories starting Friday night with a victory over Langhorne Lions, 8-3; on Saturday over Newtown 11-6; and then came their hottest play on the hottest day of the year against the Solebury Spiders, the second ranked team.

Two weekends earlier these teams battled too and Tri-Township earned a 3-2 victory at Solebury Fields. Now everything was at stake and both teams brought their best play of the season.  Solebury took an early lead 1-0 on a towering homer over the left field fence at CRISP.  Tri-Township was not daunted.  They battled for three more innings until the bottom of the sixth when they trailed 1-0. The team huddled together, put their hands together, and said to themselves we are not finished.  They collectively lead a team chant--1, 2, 3 TEAM.  They they scored a run and it went into what will be long remembered as the second game within the game. In the top of the 7th Solebury scored again.  A second run tried to score but it was thrown out by the centerfielders 8th put-out of the season. Tri-Township again refused to give us as they scored a gutty run to tie it.  Then, the next two innings raised the field temperature even above the 95 degrees.  Solebury had the based loaded in the 8th & 9th but the TEAM played hard, focussed and together like they did all season, and prevented any runs from scoring. Diving plays by third basemen and left fielders added to this glorious tale. The top of the 10th again had runners in scoring position which was stopped yet again by Tri-Township's rotations of every player through the positions.  Then, in the bottom of the tenth, they did it, a screaming single up the middle with a man on second easily scored the winning run, and this game will go down as one of the best played games. The game was so captivating that a man from STBL who just came to drop off the trophies in the second inning, and who had no ties to the game whatever, beared 90 degree heat for the rest a 10 inning game that was completed in under 2 and half hours.
 
One may ask who made these plays, and the team will tell you we did-- not singling anyone out, because they played as a team, and they are now champions. Who is this team, just a group of boys from Holland, Richboro, Buckingham, Wrightstown, and Newtown Township who like to play ball and play together: Alec Berenbaum, Peter Oline, Jordan Silverman, Hunter Goldberg, Ross Sweed, Tyler Hone, Anthony Calaciura, Harry Kettelberger, Dan King, Brian Block, Gerald Schottmiller, Tommy O'Toole, Tommy Lynch, Evan Creedon, and Andrew Woodruff. A team proudly managed by Ken Hone, Terry Goldberg and Jim Oline.
 
Proudly Submitted by Ken Hone, Manager of Tri-Township, Suburban Travel Baseball League (STBL) 11B Commissioner, and proud parent
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