West Warwick

Down 1-0 in their series with Coventry, East Greenwich forced a game three behind the stellar pitching performance from Grogan O’Brien in 5-1 victory.

The right-handed pitcher struck out three batters and allowed just one run on three hits in seven innings of work.

A sacrifice fly by Thomas Speltz put EG on the board first in the bottom of the third inning.

O’Brien, Ryan Marcantonio, Robert Brooks, Lenny Kiernan, and Ryan Sheeran each collected one hit for the EG Connie Mack Avengers.

Also, Marcantonio, Speltz, Kiernan, and Sean Giannelli each drove in one run for the maroon and white.

Unfortunately for East Greenwich, however, they lost game three, 5-2.

East Greenwich ends a solid summer with an overall record of 11-7.

After winning nine consecutive games after a 3-5 start, West Warwick’s Connie Mack season came to end with a game three loss to First Place, Flood Ford.

WWCM took a series lead with a 5-3 upset over a Flood Ford. The Bishop Hendricken contingent, who knocked out the orange and black in last year’s semifinals, advanced to the State Championship for the second consecutive year.

Although they gave up three runs In their game one win, WWCM pulled a rarity of sorts by no-hitting Flood Ford

Leading hitters for West Warwick were Brendan Griffin (2/4) , Josh Pedus (1/4, one double, one run), Nick Brown (rbi double), Anthony Burt (1/4, one double), Nate Hunt (rbi single and one run scored), Zack Lawrence (1/3, one run) and Caden Denton (1/3, one run scored).

West Warwick, who had the longest winning streak of the year, finishes with a 12-7 record.

Game Three Results
Final Score: Coventry 5 East Greenwich 2
Final Score: Flood Ford 10 West Warwick 1

Game Two Results
Final Score: Flood Ford 14 West Warwick 0
Final Score: East Greenwich 5 Coventry 1

Game One Results
Final Score: Coventry 7 East Greenwich 4
Final Score: West Warwick 5 Flood Ford 3

The RI Connie Mack semifinals begin tonight (8-9-23). All games will be played at McCarthy Field in West Warwick. The updated bracket is attached below.

1) Flood Ford (10-3-1) vs. 5) West Warwick (11-5-0)
Game One: 8-9-23 at 7:30
Game Two: 8-10-23 at 5:00
Game Three: 8-11-23 TBA

2) Coventry (10-4-0) vs. 3) East Greenwich (10-5-0)
Game One: 8-9-23 at 5:00
Game Two: 8-10-23 at 7:30
Game Three: 8-11-23 TBA

Game Results – Regular Season
Flood Ford 6 West Warwick 2
Coventry 7 Flood Ford 1
East Greenwich 3 Flood Ford 2
Coventry 8 East Greenwich 4
West Warwick 11 Coventry 1
West Warwick 9 East Greenwich 3 (9 IP)

Winning their seventh and eighth games in a row, West Warwick defeated the Bulldogs of Westerly to advance to the Rhode Island Connie Mack Final Four for the third consecutive year.

Game One: West Warwick 4 Westerly 1
Logan Dean and Brendan Griffin combined on a four-hitter to lead West Warwick past the Bulldogs in game one. Dean, who earned All-Division honors for the Wizards this past spring, struck out four batters in four innings of work. Griffin, who has been WWCM’s most consistent pitcher during their winning streak, allowed just one hit in three innings of work to pick up the save.

The orange and black, who could only muster four hits off Bulldog starter, Tim Fagan, received hits from Nathan Hunt (2/3), Zack Lawrence (1/2, one double, one run scored & two rbi’s) and Dylan Provoyeur (1/2, one run scored). A ground out by Josh Pedus put West Warwick Connie Mack on the board in the bottom of the first.

Game Two: West Warwick 6 Westerly 2
Although West Warwick was held to just two hits by Westerly’s Joey Gabriele, they opportunistically pulled away with a game two win. Gabriele, who pitched seven innings, struck out 13 batters and walked five.

After taking a 1-0 lead when Caden Denton walked with the bases loaded in the top of the second inning, the orange and black scored three runs in the top of the third inning to build a 4-0 lead.

Brendan Griffin (2/3, one run scored & one rbi) led off with a single, advance to second on a walk to Josh Pedus and then, moved to third base when Nick Brown walked and scored on Anthony Burt’s sacrifice fly to center field. Two out later, Pedus raced home on a passed ball and Brown scored on an error.

Anthony, who earned the win, struck out seven batters, walked three and allowed just two runs in 4 2/3 innings of work. Josh Pedus (two strikeouts in 1 1/3 innings) and Brendan Griffen (one strike out in 1 inning) took over the mound duties and held the Bulldogs scoreless the rest of the game.

Chase Collins had two hits and one rbi for the Bulldogs.