Back at the ballpark on Friday evening as the Staten Island FerryHawks visited for the first time in '25. On this night the Hawks went up 1-0 in the first, in the bottom half the Stormers took advantage of six walks to score nine runs. RBI hits from Joseph Carpenter and Ariel Sandoval plus a fielders choice groundout by Yeison Coca and an error accounted for four runs, Dave Matthews and Nick Lucky each walked with the bases loaded before the rally was capped by Mason Martin's three-run double. A two-run home run by Matthews in the fourth made it 11-1, in the fifth Lucky went yard with a man on and Alex Isola hit a solo shot putting the Stormers up by thirteen. The Hawks put together a five-spot in the sixth and added one more in the eighth, in the Stormer half Danny Amaral's three-run home run and a solo homer by Martin put away an 18-7 victory. Noah Skirrow was the beneficiary of all the offense and picked up the decision with Michael McAvene, Billy Sullivan and Phil Diehl pitching in relief. On Saturday in game #2 the Stormers spotted the Hawks a 4-0 lead before scoring seven in the third. A Staten Island error, RBI singles by Danny Amaral and Alex Isola, a Mason Martin double and Ariel Sandoval's three-run homer did the damage in an inning eerily similar to the nine-run frame on Friday. After SI got one back in the fifth Martin's home solo home run and backup catcher Andrew Semo's RBI hit made it 9-5. In the home sixth Martin went yard again with a man on to put the Stormers ahead 11-5, the Hawks made it close with three in the seventh but the scoring ended there. Jackson Rees won it in relief of A.J. Alexy who came out of the bullpen for the spot start. The Stormers finished the series sweep on Sunday but I was not there, it was week #3 for street hockey in Rothsville. Two new players debuted bringing the enrollment to fifty, on this day thirty-four were in attendance. Both games were decided in the overtime shootout, Warwick beat Hillside and Township won over Ephrata. No games on the 15th (by popular demand because of Fathers' Day), we're back on the 22nd. Take care, thanks for reading.
