WEST ORANGE, NJ (updated Tuesday May 2, 1:17 p.m.) – The West Orange High School varsity baseball team, seeded 13th, will visit fourth-seeded Columbia in the first round of the Greater Newark Tournament on Saturday, May 6, a t2:30 p.m. at Underhill Field in Maplewood. WOHS received byes in the preliminary rounds.
Michael Giovine went 2-for-3 with two runs and an RBI and Jordan Stennett drove in two runs to lead the Mountaineers to an 8-4 win at West Essex on April 26 in a Super Essex Conference-Liberty Division game in North Caldwell. Vincent DeSantis went 1-for-2 with an RBI and Kevin Rodriguez, Chris Spagnuolo and Christopher Walker each drove in a run.
WOHS fell to Seton Hall Prep, 9-2, April 28.
The Mountaineers defeated Bloomfield Tech, 11-4, Monday, May 1, at home in a SEC-Liberty game to improve to a 6-7 record. Stennett pitched 5 1/3 innings, striking out 10 and did not allow a walk, to earn the win. He also had a single, a triple, and a three-run home run. Walker and Giovine each had three hits and Aaron Puryear had two hits.
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