As one of the grizzled veterans on Pastime Club’s three-time Zone 3 championship team, Corbin Hyde has seen his team find countless ways to win big baseball games over the years. Hyde never saw his team win the way it won this year’s zone championship, on a technicality that was later deemed incorrect by zone […]
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Legion baseball: Zone III conclusion incorrect, commissioner says
The bizarre saga of the American Legion Zone III championship took another strange turn on Thursday. The rule that resulted in Pastime Club of Lewiston being awarded its third consecutive zone championship on Wednesday was incorrectly interpreted, Zone III comissioner Todd Cifelli said. A Windham pitcher ruled ineligible on Wednesday was actually eligible, and Windham […]
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Zone III championship: Pastime Club by TKO
WINDHAM — Pastime Club and Windham knew Wednesday’s Zone III championship game could end with one pitch. Both teams just assumed that the one pitch would have to be put in play. It was not. Instead, the pitch led to Pastime winning its third consecutive zone title on a technicality, two days after the game […]
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Legion baseball: Zone III championship postponed to Wednesday
First darkness and now rain have interrupted Zone III in its attempts to crown a champion. Tuesday’s rain forced postponement of the suspended American Legion zone championship game between Pastime Club and Windham. The teams will try again at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday at Windham High School. The game was suspended due to darkness on […]
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Legion baseball: Zone III final suspended, Pastime and Windham tied 11-11
WINDHAM — Pastime Club and Windham went into Monday’s Zone III championship game knowing the loser’s season wouldn’t end there. And yet both teams seem to like the idea of sudden death. After 3½ hours and 10 innings, the zone title remained undecided as darkness began to settle in at Windham High School. After a […]
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Legion baseball: Rogers holds off Smith-Tobey
AUBURN — Arguably, Smith-Tobey Post 21 of Bath made better contact against Rogers Post 153 pitchers Tyler Schaefer and Nate Pushard than Rogers hitters did against a pair of Smith-Tobey pitchers. But, several hard-hit line drives were either directly at Rogers Post outfielders, or the host team’s players made nice run-and-grab catches. On the other […]
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Legion baseball: Johnson, Tri-Town blank Andy Valley
TURNER — Zak Johnson baffled Andy Valley hitters, limiting them to two hits and two walks as Tri-Town blanked Andy Valley, 2-0, in Zone 3 American Legion baseball action on Wednesday. Johnson fanned six in his complete-game effort to outduel Andy Valley’s Quinn Fogarty, who also went the distance and took the loss despite allowing […]
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Pastime steams past Andy Valley
LEWISTON — Winning pitcher Ryan Riordan drove in three runs and Luke Cote doubled twice as Pastime (11-3) sideswiped Andy Valley with a 10-2 victory in an American Legion baseball game Friday.The game was tied at 2 through three innings when Pastime’s 13-hit attack took its toll on Andy Valley (1-10). Pastime erupted with five […]
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Legion roundup: Windham nips Tri-Town
WINDHAM — Ethan Petty smacked a two-run double in the second inning and Windham (12-2) held on to a 2-0 victory over Tri-Town (3-8) in an American Legion baseball game Thursday. Windham used a six-hit attack, with catcher Spencer Hodge hammering out a pair of hits. Caleb Bridgham had a single and a double for […]
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Legion baseball: Bessey Motors holds off Rogers Post, 9-5
AUBURN — Kicking off a stretch of nine games in six days, Bessey Motors could have used a laugher Thursday. And after 5½ innings, it looked like it might get a few chuckles at the expense of William J. Rogers Post 153. Rogers’ five-run sixth inning brought the levity to a halt, however, and Bessey […]