Murray Throws a Complete Game Masterpiece Against Scotch Plains

Hopper Murray and the rest of the Westfield White team had to get up pretty early for today's 8:00 AM game in Bridgewater against Scotch Plains so he was likely a little tired. However, Hopper showed no signs of sluggishness and he turned in a spectacular pitching performance throwing a complete game 5 hitter and limiting Scoth Plains to a single unearned run over 6 innings. His performance was key to the weekend in which White was short on pitching because of a rough schedule which had them playing 5 games between Friday and Sunday.

Westfield's offense wasted no time in providing run support and they scored 6 runs in the bottom of the 1st inning. Eric Varakian started the rally with a lead off walk and then Vin Difilippo singled. Nick Mele reached on a ground ball to 2nd and then Devin Anderson cleared the bases with a double to the right center field wall. Chris Boutsikaris followed with an RBI double and then after Chris Varano reached on a grounder to 3rd, Hopper Murray helped his own cause with a 2 run double to deep center. White added a run in the 2nd when Tommy Summers singled up the middle, stole 2nd and scored on Chris Rinaldi's RBI single to left.

Hopper and the Westfield defense cruised through the middle innings with Hopper throwing strikes and changing speeds to keep the Scotch Plains hitters off balance.

Westfield added two more runs in the 4th to make it 9-1 on back-to-back singles by Chris Varano and Hopper Murray. Varano scored on an RBI ground out by Brett Robertshaw and Murray scored on an RBI ground out by Scott Tupper.

Westfield's next game is against Hazlet at 12 PM today in the North Edison tournament.