Eagles fall to Jackson, 10-7

South's Junior Varsity baseball team was looking for their 13th win in a row, but it fell short and lost to Jackson 10-7 in the Championship game of the JV Tournament. The Eagles fell into an early 5-1 defecit but battled back. They brought the game to 5-4 on Tyler Cottrell's homerun, and tied an inning later on Ken Paterson's. But Jackson was able to take a 6-5 lead in the next frame. The eventually held a 10-6 advantage going into the seventh inning. Chris Bunge walked to lead off the inning, then Jon Altino was hit by a pitch to put runners on first and second with no one out. Mark Spoleti's infield single scored Bunge and moved Altino to third. Tyler Cottrell was then hit by a pitch, which loaded the bases for South. Jackson's closer, though, was brought in and was able to get out of the jam without surrendering a run. The Eagles record finishes up at 17-4 with the A-North JV Division Crown, and the second place trophy in the JV Tournament.

JV Team to play Jackson in Championship

The JV Eagles will play at 4:00 tomorrow at Saint John Vianney against Jackson in the Championship Round of the Junior Varsity Tournament. This will be the team's final game, and they hope to bring home a 1st place trophy.

JV Ealges move on to Tounrament Championship

The Eagles defeated their cross town rival Middletown North 10-4 to move on to the Championship game in the JV Tournament. The win is South's 12th straight, improving their record to 17-3. Evan Mitchell pitched six strong innings, allowing only four runs and picked up the win. Jon Altino, Darin Alcolea, Chris Bunge and all of the Eagles offense had great days at the plate. Arthur Barneck pitched the seventh to close out the victory. The Eagles will look for their 13th straight victory and the JV Championship early next week versus a yet to be determined opponent.

JV Team wins 2nd Round Tournament Game

The JV Eagles beat St. Rose 4-3 in the second round of the Junior Varsity Tournament. Ken Paterson pitched five innings and allowed only one run. Eric Hogan got out of a jam with the bases loaded, two outs and the go-ahead run on third bade with a three pitch strikeout. In the top of the seventh with two outs, Jon Altino doubled to left center field, and Mark Spoleti singled him home to give South the lead. Hogan pitched a perfect seventh to preserve the win.

JV Baseball win 12-1: Moves on in Tournament

The Eagles defeated Rumson-Fair Haven by a score of 12-1 in the first round of the Junior Varsity Monmouth County Tournament. Ken Paterson started for the Eagles and pitched four innings and allowed only one run. Kevin Slavin hit his second homerun of the year on an 0-2 pitch his first time up. Chris Bungee had a big day at the plate, witha single and two triples.

Magnotta Pitches Eagles to Win

Pat Magnotta pitched a complete game to lead the Eagles of Middletown South 8-1 over Red Bank Catholic.

The Eagles jumped out to a three run lead in the bottom of the first inning, and that was all Magnotta needed. He pitched seven innings, scattering six hits and walking no one, allowing only one earned run.

Mike Guarnieri led the Eagles offensively with a 3-3 day at the plate, with two runs batted in. Jack Provine added two hits in three at bats for South.

Middletown South wins its second straight game and improves to 5-15 on the year while the Caseys fall to 11-7.

JV
The Eagles won their 8th straight game on the junior varsity level by beating RBC 10-7. Ryan Johnston pitched three solid innings. Tim Ens had another strong relief performance, going three innings and striking out 6. Ken Paterson closed the game out in the seventh for the save. Chris Binge went three for four for South, while Kevin Slavin had a big run producing day; he went 2-4 with four runs batted in.

Offense Carries Eagles to Victory

Middletown South was able to ride its offense to a 13-7 non-divisional victory of the Brick Memorial Mustangs.

Tyler Black started for the Eagles, and gave up five runs over two and a third innings. Brian Dudzinski relieved him to get the last two outs of the third and pitched the three more after that without giving up a run. Nigel Combs closed the game after surrendering an unearned run in the seventh.

Will Schnoor broke out of a recent slide with a 3-4 day at the plate, including a homerun. Mike Guarnieri, Jack Provine, and Miles Santos all added two hits, with Provine and Santos recorded a double and triple, respectively.

The Eagles improve their record to 4-15 and the Mustangs drop to 3-14.

Junior Varsity
The JV Eagles were able win their 12th game of the season by defeating
Brick Memorial by a score of 4-2. Arthur Barnek pitched five innings and allowed only one run. Eric Hogan came on for the six out save. Jon Altino recorded a 4-4 day at the plate, also adding a RBI. Tyler Cottrell went 2-4. Ken Paterson and Jim Geant both had hits, Paterson with a RBI double.

South falls to Freehold Township on RBI Single in 7th

Ian MacLean’s RBI single off of Will Schnoor in the bottom of the seventh brought home Chris Ballester and gave Freehold Township a 8-7 A-North victory over Middletown South

Freehold jumped out to an early advantage in the bottom of the first inning, putting up four runs. Rodger Wilmot singled to set up the inning. Then Brian Cooney reaching on an error, a walk of Chase Majewski and a MacLean single all lead to the Pats four runs.

The Eagles got two of those runs back in the top of the second, when Miles Santos hit a double, Craig Sweeney hit a single and Mike Hermann got an RBI on a sacrifice fly.

After the Patriots scored a run in their half of the second inning, they held a 5-3 advantage.

Middletown South took the lead in the fifth with the help of a four run inning. The four runs came around to score and a Mike Farrell base hit knocked starter Matt Grajek out of the game. Grajek pitched four plus innings, and allowed six runs, five earned, on nine hits.

In the bottom of the fifth Ballester led off with a homerun and ended starter Chris Kamna’s day. Kamna had four plus innings of work, surrendering nine hits and six runs, four of which were earned. An error allowed MacLean to reach base and was singled home by Dave Banach.

Ballester’s double set up MacLean’s game-winning hit in the bottom of the seventh, and gave the Patriots their 8th win of the year, bringing them above .500 at 8-7.

Will Schnoor took the loss, pitching two and two thirds, allowing three hits, striking out two and allowing two runs, one earned.

Austin Henderson picked up the victory coming out of the bullpen to throw three innings in which he only gave up three hits, and two runs, only one of which was earned.

Junior Varsity
The JV Eagles finished out their A-North schedule with a 16-5 win over Freehold Township. Chris Bunge started off the game for South by hitting a lead off homerun over the right center field fence. Evan Mitchell had a strong performance over five innings to earn the win. Tyler Cotrell went three for three to lead the Eagles offensively. Jon Altino and Darin Alcolea also ahd strong days at the plate. Eric Hogan hit his third pinch hit homerun of the season in the top of the seventh inning to close out the scoring for the Eagles. Hogan pitched two innings to close out the contest. With a 11-3 overall record, and 11-2 in the conference, Middletown South has won the JV division of the A-North.

Colts Neck's Jackson Pitches Gem: Holds Eagles to 3 Hits

Ethan Jackson went the distance, allowing only three hits to give Colts Neck a 7-4 victory over A-North rival Middletown South.

The Eagles scored three runs in the third inning to jump out to an early lead. The three runs were unearned because of consecutive infield errors.

The Cougars came back with two runs in the bottom of the fourth to bring the score within one. The Eagles scored Jackson’s only earned run of the contest in the top of the fifth to take a 4-2 advantage.

Colts Neck scored five runs in the bottom of the fifth inning to take the lead off of starter Pat Magnotta, who went six, and allowed five earned on eight hits.

Jackson closed off his masterful performance by shutting down the Eagles in the 7th to give the Cougars their 12th win, helping their position in the A-North Division race.

A.J. Rusbarskey and Pat Specchio led the Colts Neck offense with two and three hits, respectively, in three at bats a piece.

Junior Varsity
The JV Eagles came back from behind to win their 10th game this season 7-6. After trailing 5-1, South put up a run to cut the lead to three in the fourth. Colts Neck got the run back in their half of the inning though and the score stood at 6-2. With one out in the 5th Jim Geant, Chris Bunge, Jon Altino and Mark Spoleti hit four singles in a row to score two. Kenny Paterson had an RBI groundout to cut the lead to 6-5. Tyler Cottrell walked and then Kevin Slavin hit a two run triple, scoring Spoleti and pinch runner David George. Tim Ens allowed only one run in relief of starter Ryan Johnston, and got the win.