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on April 22, 2017 5:29 PM
NORTH BRUNSWICK — South Plainfield head coach Anthony Guida doesn’t start his sophomore pitchers off in the shallow end of the pool. Instead, he throws them into the deep end to see if they can swim at the varsity level.
On Saturday, in the Autism Awareness Challenge, sophomore right-hander Chris Shine got the call against No. 9 Millburn and responded with a veteran effort. Shine scattered a run on five hits with five strikeouts in 62/3 and South Plainfield (8-3) upended Millburn (9-2) at Community Park.
The victory was the fifth in six games for South Plainfield and ended Millburn’s eight-game winning streak.
“Chris has become out Saturday pitcher,” said South Plainfield head coach Anthony Guida. “We like to get outside our league on Saturday and we like to use our sophomores and get them experience. We did that a couple years ago when Jean Sapini was a sophomore and we went on a nice little run.”
“I saw coach come out and I was a little disappointed,” Shine said. “I wanted to finish.”
“If he wasn’t at 110 pitches, he would have,” Guida said. “I had to no choice but to take him out.”
Shine kept a good-hitting Millburn line-up off balance by mixing his pitches.
“All my pitches worked pretty well today,” Shine said. “My fastball was pretty good and so were my two-seamer and curveball.”
Shine was relieved by Dylan O’Connor who give up a single before retiring Rich Schiekofer on a fairly deep fly to centerfield.
“I knew it wasn’t going out and I knew if it was in the ballpark, our guys would catch it,” Shine said.
South Plainfield made the most of its limited scoring chances.
The Tigers scored on an RBI single by junior Mike Stanczak in the first inning and tacked on two on RBIs by sophomore TJ Massaro in the fourth innings and senior catcher Jared Marks in the fifth.
“We scored our first two runs without a ball leaving the infield,” Guida said.
“This was a big win because it boosted everybody’s confidence,” Shine said. “I think we made a little of a statement that we can play with the best teams in the state.”
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South Plainfield 3, Millburn 1
The Tigers made a huge statement, snapping the winning streak of Millburn, currently ranked No. 9 in the state by The Star Ledger, at eight games with a victory in the Autism Awareness Baseball Challenge.
Winning pitcher Chris Shine allowed seven hits and one earned run over six and two thirds innings. He struck out five and walked three. Shine threw 113 pitches before being lifted under the NJSIAA's new pitch-count regulations. Dylan O'Connor closed the game for a save.
Connor Adams doubled and scored for the Tigers, who improved to 8-3. Jared Marks, Mike Stanczak and TJ Massaro each had an RBI for South Plainfield. Stanczak and Mike Marrero scored the Tigers' other runs.
Millburn outhit South Plainfield 8-4 but committed three errors that led to an unearned run. The Tigers scored in the home first to erase a 1-0 deficit.
South Plainfield scored the go-ahead run in the third and added an insurance tally in the fifth.
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