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Starting pitcher Jon Salvador threw a three-hit game. |
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Warriors drop double-header to Plymouth North
By Kevin Mullaney
Banner Correspondent
The Nauset High School baseball team ended its season in style on Saturday, playing a double-header against undefeated Plymouth North at Eldredge Park in Orleans, home of the Cape Cod Baseball League’s Orleans Cardinals. Plymouth North remained undefeated, but the Warriors from Nauset did not make it easy.
Provincetown’s Jon Salvador pitched a gem in the first game, losing 2-0 in nine innings. The teams were tied at zero after seven innings and Salvador held Plymouth North to one hit through eight innings. Two hits by the visitors in the ninth secured their win. Salvador struck out eight. Peter Hennigan, Andrew Leandre and Josh Smith had hits for Nauset.
“Jon did a fantastic job,” Nauset coach Ken Duff said.
Not getting the big hits has been a problem all year for his relatively young squad, he said. Both teams played solid, nearly flawless ball all afternoon.
Senior Connor Seymour took the mound in the second game, a 3-2 loss that could have gone either way. Seymour, who has been named to the Nauset Hall of Fame for being an all-star in three sports for each of his four years, struck out seven batters and walked none.
The teams were tied at two going into the bottom of the seventh, and Plymouth North eked out the win on a single up the middle that ricocheted off Seymour’s glove, just out of shortstop Mike Quill’s reach.
Hennigan, the freshman center fielder, scored both Nauset runs. Quill and Joe Buckley had the RBIs. Hennigan also made what coach Duff called an ESPN highlight-film play, leaping above the fence to thwart a home run in the second game.
“They were the best high school games I have ever coached,” Duff said, adding that many opposing coaches, including Plymouth North’s, have commented on the quality of play of his squad over the last half of the season, a season that ended with only six wins and 14 losses.
“More timely hitting could’ve turned that record around,” Duff said. “It took us a while to get going.”
Looking forward to next year, Duff said that the kids have to play summer baseball to be successful.
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May 29th, 2008