Westfield White completed their summer travel season with an impressive, come from behind win against a very strong Flemington team in the championship game of the Bridgewater 11U, 50/70 "A" tournament. Westfield finished the Bridgewater tournament with an unblemished 6-0 record and an overall record of 28-6-1.
Westfield jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the 1st. Eric Varakian and Vin Difilippo drew walks (Difilippo was actually hit by a pitch) and Nick Mele delivered an RBI single. Devin Anderson and Chris Boutsikaris (RBI) also walked and Boutsikaris' walk forced in Difilippo for the 2-0 lead.
Michale Mobarakai took the mound for Westfield and he held Flemington scoreless over the 1st two innings of play. In the 3rd, Flemington began to break through and after a walk, a couple of hits and an error, Westfield was trailing 4-2. Scott "T-Rod" Tupper relieved Mobarakai with the bases loaded and two outs and Tupper got the final out of the inning on a first pitch, breaking ball of some kind that induced a harmless fly ball to right field. Tupper also threw a scoreless 4th inning and a solid 5th in which he only allowed an unearned run. When he left the mound after the 3rd out in the 5th, Westfield trailed 5-2.
Westfield came to bat in the bottom of the 5th and immediately proceeded to rally. With 1 out, Brett Robertshaw, Tommy Summers and Eric Varakian each singled to load the bases. Chris Rinaldi then lofted a fly ball to deep left center that banged off of the top of the fence. Rinaldi was held to a long single, but two runs scored on the play. Vin Difilippo followed with a hard grounder up the middle which brought in another run, tying the score at 5.
Nick Mele came on to pitch the 6th and he threw very well, but he was victimized by an error which allowed Flemington to score an unearned run and to take a 6-5 lead. There was no quit in the Westfield offense as they came to bat trailing by 1 run in the bottom of the 6th. Chris Boutsikaris started the inning with a walk and then Chris Varano lined a single to right field to put runners on 1st and 2nd and Hopper Murray drew a walk to load the bases. Tupper then came up and ripped a line drive to left field for an RBI single which knocked home Boutsikaris who was the tying run. Michael Mobarakai stepped up to the plate with the bases loaded in a 6-6 tie game and quickly found himself with a 1-2 count. He fouled off a pitch and then lined an RBI single right field to drive in Varano with the winning run. Westfield White mobbed Mobarakai as he rounded first base after his walk off RBI single and the boys then claimed the championship trophy to close out what has been a truly amazing season.
Westfield's year end party is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon.
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