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Haverhill Hillies Baseball '09

Sat, May 30, 2009 01:00 PM @ Haverhill
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Final
Arlington Catholic 0 6 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 9
Haverhill 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2

Errors doom Hillies in tourney opener

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Saturday, May, 30 By Hector Longo
Staff writer

HAVERHILL - By the time it found a way to nick up Arlington High starter Mike Griffin, the Haverhill High baseball's afternoon and season were pretty much over.


Ronnie Rosario singled sharply to left with one out in the Hillie sixth to end Griffin's no-hit bid. But by that time, Arlington had ridden three Hillie errors to a 9-0 lead, ultimately stopping Haverhill in the Division 1 North tourney opener, 9-2.

"We haven't played a game in six days, and we had a week of poor practice," said Hillie coach Chip Dunn. "Today, we played like we practiced. It's too bad because this group of kids really overachieved. They worked hard every day, right through the regular season."

All three Hillie miscues came in the third, where starter Trevor Behrendt absorbed six unearned runs to finish his upstart senior season with at 6-4.

"Poor Behrendt that's two straight games where we struggled behind him. Six unearned runs in an inning takes a lot out of you," said Dunn of his right-hander. "In the last two games (including Monday's 12-11 loss to Central) he threw outs for us and got nothing to show for it."

The Hillies, who endured injuries that limited stopper Taylor Robinson to 13.2 innings all season and kept Brendon Bretton off the mound entirely, finished at 11-8.

"At the beginning of the year, I said I'd have been happy if we played .500 baseball and we did better than that."

Haverhill finished with just six hits off Griffin, with Bretton swatting a pair.

Robinson had the lone RBI on a base hit in the sixth for the home team.

Game Statistics:

Arlington (9):  Sleeder cf 5-1-2, Connor ss 5-1-1, Griffin p 4-0-0, O'Loughlin rf 5-0-1, Fitzgerald 3b 5-1-1, O'Hare c 5-0-1, Davos 2b 4-3-2, Culty lf 3-2-0, Calcagno dh 5-1-1, Nuzzell 1b 0-0-0, Totals 41-9-9

Haverhill (2): Chasse cf 3-1-0, Bresnahan ph 1-0-0, Rosario c 3-0-1, Cronin c 0-0-0, Robinson 1b/p 3-0-1, Munoz 2b 0-0-0, Xia dh 3-0-0, Behrendt p 2-0-0, Ieronimo lf 2-0-0, Pickles ss 2-0-0, Mendez ss 1-0-0, Cox rf 3-1-1, Baez ph 1-0-0, Kimball 3b 3-0-1, Ruth ph 1-0-0, Bretton rf/1b/cf 4-0-2, Dubois 2b 0-0-0, Totals 30-2-6 

RBI:  H - Robinson; A - Sleeder 4, Connor, O'Loughlin

WP: Griffin; LP:  Behrendt

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