2024 - Game # 6 South Plainfield 9, Watchung Hills 2

 Andy MendlowitzMyCentralJersey.com

South Plainfield 9, Watchung Hills 2

Junior righty Mike Castagna earned his first varsity win by allowing an unearned run in four innings with three strikeouts as South Plainfield earned the nonconference victory.

Dom Massaro went 3-for-5 with an RBI and double for the Tigers (5-1) and Nick Irizarry (2 runs) and Steve Studlack (RBI, run) each had two hits.

Also joining the hit parade were Aiden McCarthy (2 RBIs, run), Dan Kapsch (2 RBIs, run) and Jayden Alvarez (double, 2 RBIs, run).

Aiden McCarthy, Lorenzo Fuscoletti and Chase Donovan each threw a scoreless inning for the Tigers.

Watchung Hills fell to 3-4-1. 

NJ baseball April roundup for GMC and area Skyland and Union counties (mycentraljersey.com)

	R	H	E
South Plainfield (5-1)	9	10	2
Watchung Hills (3-4-1)	2	4	4

South Plainfield Batting

	AB	R	H	RBI	1B	2B	3B	HR	BB	HBP	SB	AVG	SLG
Aiden McCarthy	3	1	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333
Dom Massaro	5	1	3	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	.600	.800
Dan Kapsch	4	1	1	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	.250	.250
Zack Robinson	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	.000	.000
Jayden Alvarez	3	1	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	.333	.667
Brandon Bickunas	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000
Nick Irizarry	4	2	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500
Anthony Tomei	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000
Steve Studlack	3	1	2	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	.667	.667
Totals:	32	10	10	8	8	2	0	0	5	1	4	.312	.375

South Plainfield Pitching

	PIT	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HB	ERA
Mike Castagna (WP)	78	4	3	2	1	4	3	0	1.75
Aiden McCarthy	17	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	0.00
Lorenzo Fuscoletti	17	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00
Chase Donovan	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00
Totals:	119	7	4	2	1	4	5	0	1.00

The Tigers defeated Watchung Hills and improved their record to 5-1. They scored 9 times on 10 hits, providing starter Mike Castagna with plenty of run support needed to pick up his first career W.

8 different Tigers crossed home plate today. The Dudes: Dom Massaro (3-5 2b rbi r) Nick Irizarry (2-4 2r sb) Dan Kapsch, Jay Alvarez, and Aiden McCarthy got in the mix and had 2rbi’s each.

Grand Poobah V

Low 50’s, dark skies, cold drizzle, a bus that sounded like Judas Priest as it limped up the hill-waterlogged baseballs 30 sec into our IO-nothing but ideal conditions for our backstop Steve “the Stud”Studlack to be helmeted. Stud (2-3 rbi r) 1st career var hits!!