The Bristol American Legion baseball team won their fourth straight game to open the season on Saturday with an 8-3 victory over Milford.
Sunday saw the Bristol bats go quiet for the first time as Norwalk’s Charles Depalma spun a one-hitter in a complete game 7-0 victory for home-standing Norwalk. 6/15/24 Bristol 24 Senior at Milford 24
Saturday, June 15. Bristol 8- Milford 3
Saturday morning in Milford, Bristol pounded out nine hits and added nine walks in another strong offensive showing, an 8-3 win. Rocco Spirito had a huge double for three RBI’s and Brian Grabowski and Brayden Schenck had two hits apiece to pace the attack.
Caleb Molinsky went 4 and 1/3 innings to get the victory. Molinsky struck out five while giving up six hits
With the win the team’s record improved to 4-0.
BRISTOL (8) AT MILFORD (3)
BRISTOL 24 AB R H BI MILFORD 24 AB R H BI
Brian Grabowski 3 1 2 2 Kevin Harp 3 0 1 0
Connor Cyr 3 1 1 1 1 0 1 0
Ryan Maglio 3 0 1 1 Tyler Fonck 4 2 2 0
Rocco Spirito 2 0 1 3 Daniel Adzima 4 1 1 1
Caleb Simard 4 0 0 0 Brandon Payne 3 0 1 0
Jose Feliciano 1 1 0 0 Gavin Kuminski 3 0 2 1
Caleb Molinksy 3 1 1 0 Walter Piechata 3 0 0 0
Jedric Sutula 3 1 1 0 Griffin Fisher 2 0 0 0
Isaac Roberge 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Brayden Schenck 3 2 2 1 Jack Daugnan 2 0 0 0
*Jonny Montgomery 0 1 0 0 Jacob Lichowski 3 0 0 0
TOTALS 26 8 9 8 TOTALS 29 3 8 2
BRISTOL 002 203 1 — 8
MILFORD 000 010 2 — 3
LOB–BRISTOL 24 SENIOR 9, MILFORD 24 9. ERR–Brayden
Schenck, Brian Grabowski, Gavin Kuminski. 2B–Caleb
Molinksy, Rocco Spirito, Kevin Harp, Tyler Fonck, Daniel
Adzima, Brandon Payne. HBP–Jose Feliciano, Walter Piechata.
SACF–Rocco Spirito. SACB–Brian Grabowski. SB–Tyler Fonck
(3), Daniel Adzima.
BRISTOL IP H R ER BB SO HR
Caleb Molinksy (W) 4.33 6 1 1 3 5 0
Ryan Maglio 2.67 2 2 1 0 3 0
MILFORD 24
Daniel Adzima 4.00 5 4 4 3 4 0
Gavin Kuminski 1.00 1 3 3 5 0 0
Griffin Fisher 1.67 1 1 1 1 1 0
0.33 2 0 0 0 1 0
Sunday, June 16. Norwalk 7- Bristol 0
Norwalk’s Charles Depalma pitched a one-hit masterpiece against Bristol on Sunday. He struck out eight Bristol hitters, but did allow four bases on balls and two batters were hit by a pitch.
Connor Cyr got the only hit for the Bristol squad and that was a single.
Tom Pirog gave up eight hits and six runs to take the loss, but only two of the six runs for Norwalk were earned.
With the loss, Bristol drops to 4-1.
BRISTOL (0) AT NORWALK (7)
BRISTOL AB R H BI NORWALK AB R H BI
Brian Grabowski 3 0 0 0 Christopher Balchius 4 1 1 2
Connor Cyr 3 0 1 0 Anastasios Panagioti 4 1 1 0
Ryan Maglio 3 0 0 0 William Stalzer 3 0 0 0
Rocco Spirito 2 0 0 0 Sean Lengyel 3 1 2 1
Caleb Simard 2 0 0 0 Xavier Gonzalez 3 1 2 0
Jose Feliciano 1 0 0 0 Jules Cicero 2 1 1 0
Jedric Sutula 3 0 0 0 Charles Depalma 3 1 1 3
Thomas Pirog 2 0 0 0 Brian Weiss 2 1 1 1
Isaac Roberge 1 0 0 0 Savvas Kodonas 2 0 0 0
Jonny Montgomery 0 0 0 0
TOTALS 20 0 1 0 TOTALS 26 7 9 7
BRISTOL 24 SENIOR 000 000 0 — 0
NORWALK 24 000 106 x — 7
LOB–BRISTOL 24 SENIOR 4, NORWALK 24 4. 2B–Anastasios
Panagiotidis, Xavier Gonzalez. 3B–Charles Depalma.
HR–Christopher Balchius. HBP–Rocco Spirito, Savvas
Kodonas. SB–Anastasios Panagiotidis, Brian Weiss.
BRISTOL 24 SENIOR IP H R ER BB SO HR
Thomas Pirog 5.33 8 6 6 2 4 0
Gavin Colvin 0.67 1 1 1 0 0 1
NORWALK 24
Charles Depalma 7.00 1 0 0 4 8 0
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