McCarthy stars as South Plainfield downs Perth Amboy - Baseball - GMC Tournament recap
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1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
R |
H |
E |
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Perth Amboy (5-11) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
5 |
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South Plainfield (13-8) |
0 |
6 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
11 |
9 |
1 |
LP: Kristian Gonzalez
South Plainfield Batting
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AB |
R |
H |
RBI |
1B |
2B |
3B |
HR |
BB |
HBP |
SB |
AVG |
SLG |
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|
3 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
.333 |
.333 |
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|
3 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
.333 |
.667 |
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|
3 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
.667 |
.667 |
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|
3 |
0 |
2 |
4 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
.667 |
1.333 |
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|
3 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
.000 |
.000 |
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2 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
.000 |
.000 |
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1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
.000 |
.000 |
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3 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
.000 |
.000 |
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|
0 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
.000 |
.000 |
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|
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1.000 |
1.000 |
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|
3 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
.667 |
.667 |
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Totals: |
25 |
11 |
9 |
10 |
6 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
.360 |
.480 |
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PIT |
IP |
H |
R |
ER |
BB |
K |
HB |
ERA |
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Aiden McCarthy (WP) |
0 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
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Totals: |
0 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
By TAPinto South Plainfield Staff
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ -- Second-seeded South Plainfield advanced in the first round of the Jim Muldowney Greater Middlesex Conference Tournament with an 11-0 baseball victory over 15th-seeded Perth Amboy on Monday.
Junior left-hander Aiden McCarthy pitched a two-hitter and knocked in four runs for the Tigers, who scored six runs in the second inning and five runs in the third. McCarthy went 2-for-3 with a pair of doubles at the plate. On the mound, he struck out five batters and walked none in five innings.
Kevin Penny went 2-for-3 with two runs scored and two RBI for South Plainfield. Dom Massaro was 2-for-3 with two runs scored and one RBI in the victory.
Dan Kapsch was 1-for-3 with a double and two RBI, and Nick Irizarry also had a hit and an RBI.
South Plainfield (13-8) will play 10th-seeded Middlesex in the quarterfinal round of the GMC Tournament on Wednesday. Last year, South Plainfield reached the GMCT final and lost to Old Bridge. In a day of upsets on Monday, defending champion Old Bridge, the No. 6 seed, lost to 11th-seeded Edison. Also getting knocked out was No. 1 seed Woodbridge, by 16th-seeded South River in nine innings, leaving South Plainfield as the top remaining seed in the tourney.
Wednesday's four winners will advance to Saturday's semifinals at East Brunswick Magnet School. The championship game is scheduled for May 24 at East Brunswick Magnet.
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No. 2-South Plainfield 11, No. 15-Perth Amboy 0: (5 innings): Aidan McCarthy went the distance allowing two hits in the full five innings as the Tigers advanced.
He also doubled twice and drove in four runs and Kevin Penny was 2-for-3 with two RBIs and scored twice. Dan Kapsch doubled with two RBIs and Dom Massaro was 2-for-3 with an RBI and scored twice for South Plainfield (13-8).
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Wild first round of GMC Muldowney Championship Tournament sees four upsets; South River shocks top-seed Woodbridge in nine
When the Jim Muldowney GMC Championship Tournament was seeded Friday, as the room emptied, the thinking was this could be as wide open a tournament as ever. And if Monday’s results in the first round were any indication, that assessment was spot on.
Four of the eight games resulted in upsets, headlined by 16th-seed South River knocking off GMC Red Division champion and top-seed Woodbridge, 2-1, in nine innings. Three other games also went extras, two ending in upsets, featuring wins by 13-seed Metuchen and 11-seed Edison. St. Joseph-Metuchen also won in extras. Five games were decided by a single run, two by one run.
Now, you might wonder when the last time was that a No. 1 seed in the GMC Tournament got knocked off in the first round. Well, it wasn’t that long ago. In fact, it wasn’t even before COVID.
In 2021, 16th-seed JFK beat top-seed Monroe 5-4 in the first round, but fell 8-2 to 9-seed North Brunswick in the quarterfinals. Read our story and hear from then-Kennedy skipper Tim Ballard here.
Here’s a full recap of Monday afternoon’s action, with winners moving on to the quarterfinal round at North Brunswick Community Park. That’s scheduled for Wednesday, but with rain in the forecast, that could get pushed off to Thursday.
For now, several GMC teams are enjoying their big wins. Here’s the full roundup:
(16) South River 2, (1) Woodbridge 1 (9 inn.): Everyone knows the kind of pitcher Julius Rosado has been, but his innings have been somewhat limited, and he won his longest outing of the year Saturday in the play-in round, a 13-1 win over South Brunswick. That put James Zsorey on the mound, and the Rams’ ace (1a and 1b with Rosado) didn’t disappoint. He allowed just one run through 8 2/3 innings, but more on that later.
South River (14-5) got on the board in the top of the first when Noah Borrero walked with the bases loaded to take a 1-0 lead, but that’s all they would get for a while. Meanwhile, Woodbridge (13-5) scored in the bottom of the third when Ryan Leach grounded to shortstop. Rosado got the force at second, but when they tried to turn two, an error on the first baseman allowed Gavin Slicner to score. No one could get on the board for the next five innings. But in the top of the ninth, South River loaded the bases, and a walk brought in Borrero to make it 2-1. The Barrons got first and third with two out in the ninth, and the pitch count meant Zsorey had to exit. In came Brendan Lell, and on one pitch, he got Xavier Diaz to ground out back to him to end the game and set off a wild celebration.
(8) Spotswood 3, (9) Monroe 1: The Chargers (13-8) led 3-0 after two, and starter Carter Cumiskey allowed just one run the rest of the way on three hits in a six-inning effort that Will Buchan closed out for the save. Buchan was at the plate for the first two runs, as Ryan Orth scored on a wild pitch while he was batting, then Buchan drove in Steve Spisso with a sac fly to center. They added one more in the third on an RBI single by Cumsikey. The Falcons (8-11) got a run on a groundout in the fifth, but that was all they could muster against Cumiskey. Spotswood faces 16-seed South River at 4 pm on Field 2 at North Brunswick Community Park on Wednesday.
(5) St. Joseph-Metuchen 1, (12) Sayreville 0 (8 inn.): The Falcons (11-6) won it in walk-off fashion on a single in the eighth inning by Walter Christian, who finished the day 2-for-4. Richard Zangara got the win for the Falcons, going the distance, allowing just four hits through eight, walking two and striking out ten. The Falcons will move on to face 13-seed Metuchen in the 4 pm quarterfinal on Field 1 at North Brunswick Community Park on Wednesday afternoon. Sayreville drops to 7-12 with the loss.
(13) Metuchen 7, (4) East Brunswick 6 (9 inn.): The Bulldogs pulled off the second small school upset of a big school Monday. We’ll have more details on this game as they become available. The Bulldogs will play another Red Division school, St. Joseph from right down the road, in Wednesday’s quarterfinals at North Brunswick Community Park, at 4 pm on Field 1.
(3) St. Thomas Aquinas 5, (14) North Plainfield 4: The Trojans (13-6) came from two runs down in their final at bat to pull out a first round win over a game Canucks squad. Down 4-3, two singles by Jack Valenzeula and Adrian Sanchez and a hit batter – Declan DiCarlo – after a fly ball out loaded the bases with two down. That’s when Lucas Cassino, down 1-2 in the count, worked out a seven-pitch walk to bring in Valenzuela to tie the game. Harrison Eng then walked on five pitches to end the game. North Plainfield falls to 12-6 on the season, and St. Thomas moves on to play in-town rival and 11-seed Edison in the quarterfinals at North Brunswick Community Park, Wednesday at 7 pm on Field 2.
(11) Edison 2, (6) Old Bridge 1 (12 innings): The Eagles (11-9) pushed past the Knights (11-9) in the longest game of the day, a marathon at Fred Cole Field. Each team scored a run in the third, and that’s where it stayed for nine innings until Edison got one across in the top of the seventh and held off Old Bridge in the bottom of the inning for the win. Ray Tavarez got the win in relief for the Eagles, while John Smith took the loss for the Knights. Robert Roma went 3-for-3 with an RBI for Edison, with Dom Innocenti knocking in the go-ahead run in the 12th on a base hit up the middle. Edison gets St. Thomas Aquinas in Wednesday’s 7 pm quarterfinal on Field 2 at North Brunswick Community Park.
(10) Middlesex 3, (7) Colonia 1: This one lived up to the hype, with the two teams splitting the season series by a grand total of three runs. Read the full story and hear postgame reaction here. The Blue Jays will move on to play second-seed South Plainfield in the 7 pm quarterfinal on Field 1 at North Brunswick Community Park this Wednesday.
(2) South Plainfield 11, (15) Perth Amboy 0 (5 inn.): Aiden McCarthy brought the hammer Monday at the plate and on the mound in a rout of the Canucks (5-11), going 2-for-3 with four runs batted in, in a mercy-rule 5-inning game. The Tigers (13-8) got six in the second and five in the third to cruise to the win as McCarthy scattered two hits over five innings of work. The win puts South Plainfield in Wednesday’s quarterfinals at North Brunswick Community Park, at 7 pm on Field 1.
WEDNESDAY’S QUARTERFINAL ROUND:
All games at North Brunswick Community Park
4 PM Games
(5) St. Joseph-Metuchen (11-6) vs. (13) Metuchen (15-6) on Field 1 (follow Alec Crouthamel on Twitter for updates)
(8) Spotswood (13-8) vs (16) South River (14-5) on Field 2 (LIVE on CJSR)
7 PM Games
(2) South Plainfield (13-8) vs. (10) Middlesex (14-4) on Field 1 (follow Alec Crouthamel on Twitter for updates)
(3) St. Thomas Aquinas (13-6) vs. (11) Edison (11-9) (LIVE on CJSR)
NOTE: Saturday’s semifinals are at 12 and 2:30 pm at Ray Cipperly Field at East Brunswick Magnet School. The highest remaining seed will play in the 2:30 game.
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