The Andrew Warde High School baseball team scored three runs with two outs in the last of the seventh inning to post a dramatic 5-4 victory over Staples on the Crimson Eagles' diamond 51 years ago today, Friday, May 25, 1962.The Eagles extended their winning streak to 12 games and won the FCIAC Eastern Division championship with their victory over the Wreckers.
A walk and a single by Hank Bahe set the table for Bob Ryan, who tied the game by rocketing a triple up the right-centerfield alley to score two runs, and Bill Binkiwitz smacked a solid single to leftfield to plate Ryan with the winning run.
Stalwart southpaw Larry Mischik earned his seventh victory of the season. He struck out ten, walked three, and gave up only four hits. Bill Deegan, who relieved Joe DeMaria in the fourth inning, took the loss for the Wreckers, even though he did not allow a hit until the fateful seventh inning.
Staples jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the first inning on a hit batsman, an error on a pickoff attempt, a grounder, and Mike Neary's single to rightfield. Warde took a 2-1 lead one inning later, despite getting only one hit, a single to leftfield by Ryan. A walk and two errors helped plate the two runs.The Wreckers countered with a two-run rally of their own in the fourth inning. Larry Duberstein and Dave Smith hit consecutive singles, and Pete Lomme followed with a long triple to rightfield. Staples scored its final run in the fifth inning when a soft infield pop up was mishandled into a "triple" by the Warde infielders, and a sacrifice fly followed to make it 4-2.
It remained that way until Ryan and Binkiwitz blasted the winning shots with two outs in the seventh inning. Warde's victory was its 12th in 14 games, while Staples fell to 6-8.
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