2026 - Game #22 South Plainfield 2, St. Joseph's - Metuchen 1

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No. 5 South Plainfield 2, No. 12 St. Joseph 1: Aiden McCarthy threw a complete game with 10 strikeouts and reached 100 K’s in his career and Dom Massaro got hit with a pitch with the bases loaded that scored Ed Budzinski for the winning run in the fourth.

The Tigers (12-10) will travel to No. 4 Metuchen for Wednesday’s quarterfinal. McCarthy earned his sixth win of the season by allowing a run in seven innings off of five hits and a walk. Chris Loniewski’s RBI-single in the first plated Massaro for a 1-0 lead.

St. Joseph (5-15) tied it with a run in the fourth. Logan Ring was 2-for-2 and drove in Davis Labno (1-for-3). Ring also had a strong start allowing two runs in six innings off of three hits, two walks and three hit batters.

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May 11, 2026 by Mike Pavlichko

(5) South Plainfield 2, (12) St. Joseph-Metuchen 1: For the Tigers (12-10), they don’t come up bigger than Aiden McCarthy in big spots. The senior pitcher scattered five hits in a complete game effort, allowing one earned run, striking out ten, to improve to 6-1 on the season.

South Plainfield got out to a 1-0 lead in the botom of the first on a sac fly to right by Chris Loniewski. St. Joseph (5-15) – the defending tournament champs – tied it in the top of the fourth with a single by Logan ring, but the Tigers got the lead back in the home half of the inning when Dom Massaro was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded, scoring Ed Budzinski.

The win puts the Tigers in Wednesday’s quarterfinals at fourth-seed Metuchen (15-5), a team they have not faced since 2018.

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The Tigers advance to the 1/4 finals after defeating St. Joes 2-1. Aiden McCarthy picked up his 6th Win of the season with a Complete Game 10 K performance & also worked his way into the record books reaching the 100 strikeout milestone. Chris Loniewski’s rbi single in the first plated Dom Massaro, who is credited with the eventual Game Winning RBI after wearing one with the bases juiced in the bottom of the 4th that scored Eddie Budzinski (1-2). The Tigers (12-10) will travel to Metuchen on Wednesday.

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Aiden McCarthy has earned his keep in the SP Tiger Baseball record books w/ his latest achievement- reaching the 100 K milestone. This season, the Bull has tossed a No No & also earned a doctorate in the field of Falconry. But with his latest performance, tossing another CG DUBYA, the Bull has once again proved he is a true Maestro of the Diamond.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
St. Joseph (Met.) (5-15)	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	5	0
South Plainfield (12-10)	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	3	0

WP: Aiden McCarthy LP: Logan Ring

South Plainfield Batting

	AB	R	H	RBI	1B	BB	HBP	SB	FC	AVG	SLG
Dom Massaro #6	1	1	0	1	0	0	2	1	1	.000	.000
Aiden McCarthy #12	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000
Andrew Bena #19	3	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	.333	.333
Chris Loniewski #15	3	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	.333	.333
Ed Budzinski #3	2	1	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	.500	.500
Anthony Cicenia #11	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000
Gabriel Garcia #16	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	.000	.000
Andrew Burns #7	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000
Alex Pigna #10	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.000	.000
Totals:	19	2	3	2	3	2	3	2	3	.158	.158

South Plainfield Pitching

	W	L	PIT	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HB	PO	ERA
Aiden McCarthy #12 (WP)	1	0	103	7	5	1	1	1	10	0	1	1.00
Totals:	1	0	103	7	5	1	1	1	10	0	1	1.00