Nutley HS baseball players garner All-Super Essex Conference honors

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Senior Captain and SUNY New Paltz commit, Nick Palumbo gets Nutley’s first hit of the game in the first inning, steals second and third, and scores the first run on a wild pitch in the win over Northern Highlands in the North Jersey, Section 2, Group 3 state sectional tournament first round on May 27.
Senior Keith Jiratatprasot crushes a ball in the ninth for a home run and the Nutley lead against Northern Highlands in the state sectional tournament win over Northern Highlands on May 27.

NUTLEY, NJ — The Nutley High School baseball team featured several players who earned All–Super Essex Conference–Liberty Division honors, as selected by the division coaches.

FIRST TEAM

  • Ben McNeil, senior.
  • Nick Palumbo, senior.
  • Keith Jiratatprasot, senior.
  • Drew Slomkowski, senior.

HONORABLE MENTION

  • Kennan Bilotta, sophomore.
  • Ryan Pessoa, senior.

The Raiders had a good season. As the No. 10 seed, they upset No. 7 seed Northern Highlands, 3-2, in the first round on a ninth–inning home run by Jiratatprasot, before losing at No. 2 seed Old Tappan, 6-0, in the quarterfinals on May 30 in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s North Jersey, Section 2, Group 3 state tournament. The Raiders ended the season with a 6-5 win over Montclair on May 31 at the Park Oval to finish with a 15-13 record.

Photos Courtesy of Jose Raboy

 

  

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