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Georgetown Royals Baseball '09

Sat, Jun 06, 2009 03:00 PM @ Georgetown
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Brunette, North Andover make history

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Saturday, June, 06 By Hector Longo
Staff writer

LOWELL - For a team forging ahead into history, North Andover High looked quite at home here on the finely-manicured diamond at LeLacheur Park.

Sophomore Alec Jillson slapped a two-run single in the first and Aaron Brunette - with a save from Mike Weisman - made it work swimmingly as the Knights knocked off Reading, 2-0, before about 500 fans for the Division 2 North championship.

It is the first sectional baseball title in school history and leaves North Andover two victories away from a state championship. Tuesday, down the road at Alumni Field in Lowell, the Knights will tackle the South champion - either Plymouth North or Foxboro.

"That's a lot of good teams in a lot of years that didn't do this," said the sophomore Weisman, who came on with one on and no out in the seventh and closed out the fourth-seeded Rockets on a ground out and a pair of strikeouts.
"For us to do this is just a great thrill."


Brunette, who dominated for six-plus shutout innings, strapped the 20-4 Knights on his back in this one. The UMass Dartmouth-bound righty struck out nine with only one walk.

Only once did Brunette, now 4-2, encounter real trouble, with Rocket runners on second and third with two out in the second.

Brunette, who mixed a nasty 12-to-6 breaking ball with some high (low 80s heat) buckled up to get the No. 9 hitter, Ryan Nelson on strikes to end the threat.

Brunette then mowed down the 12 of the next 14 to cruise into the seventh.

After a lead single, Weisman was summoned.

"I wanted to finish this thing, but I guess I got a little tired," said Brunette.

"The way Aaron was pitching out there today, I thought there was no chance I'd be going in," said Weisman. He was that good."

Offensively, it again was a case of North Andover picking up just enough.

Jillson and senior leadoff man Ryan Sifferlen chopped two hits apiece, and that was it.

The UMass Amherst-bound Sifferlen slapped a solid single to left in the first, and an out later Connor Walsh worked a 3-2 walk. The pair moved up a base on a wild pickoff attempt, leading to Jillson's at-bat.

With the infielders halfway, Jillson sliced a liner that just beat the leap of second baseman Jeff Harvey.

"Hit it where it's pitched, that's it," said Jillson. "I was relaxed in there and I saw a few pitches and worked into a fastball count."

 

 

 

Game Statistics:

Georgetown (4):  Michael Ruh rf 4-1-1, Joe Esposito cf 0-0-0, Danyer Fabian cf 4-0-0, Anthony Conte ss 2-1-1, Andrew Sinkiewicz p 3-0-0, Marco Luisi 1b 2-2-2, Chris Esposito c 2-0-0, Dan Noelk dh 1-0-0, Jared Lathrop dh 2-0-1, Joe Slattery 2b 2-0-0, Josh Ingram 3-0-0, Totals 25-4-5

Newburyport (3): Tyler Stotz lf 4-1-2, Kyle Leblanc cf 3-1-1, Joe Clancy ss 4-1-2, Matt Mottola 2b 4-0-2, Kyle McElroy p 4-0-2, Ryan O'Connor 3b 1-0-0, Tom Morris 1b 2-0-0, Ben Tyler dh 3-0-0, D.J. Grabowski rf 2-0-0, John Isabel ph 1-0-0, Totals 32-3-9 

RBI:  G - Luisi 2, Sinkiewicz, Conte; N - Morris, McElroy 2

WP: Sinkiewicz; LP: McElroy

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