Livingston Temple Softball League 06/26/16

No one involved in B'nai Brith's 1st game against Temple Sinai last Sunday could have thought there'd be a softball game more exciting and tension filled than that one (What did they know?). BB saw a 12 run lead evaporate against a relentless Temple Sinai who turned a 13-1 deficit into a 14-13 advantage. But B'nai Brith came back to tie it at 14 and scored 4 in the top of the 8th on the way to an 18-14 win.  Strong hitting by Andrew Kasdan, Alex Lee and Ian Rappaport helped keep B'nai Brith in the game and Paul Velelis had a 3 run homer for the winners. Clutch pitching by Wayne Neumann in the bottom of the 8th allowed BB to hold on for the win. Sharey Tefilo (9-1) won two more games clinching another regular season A division title in this rain shortened season. Against B’nai Brith (2nd game) the score was 4-1 going into the 5^th when TSTI scored 6 runs to put the game away. They went  on to win 11-2 with Matt Katz, Cary Bayer and Steve Weissman each getting 2 hits, while Dave Dennenberg made several great plays in the field. In their 1st game, TSTI scored 6 runs in the 5^th and 8 runs in the 6^th to break open a close game enroute to a 28-13 win over Pine Brook. Eric Rothfeld led the attack with 5 hits, Cary Bayer had 4, and Jason Grebin, David Kramer, Matt Katz and Jeff Gaier each had 3. AABJD edged Chabad 25-24 highlighted by Jeff Falkenstein hitting for the cycle and Jay Gertleman’s homerun. In their first game though, AABJD fell to Temple Sholom 24-15 with Steve Holinstat going 5-6 (2 HR’s, 6 RBI’s) and Mark Fortgang 4-6 only a single short of the cycle in the win. Temple Sholom’s 2nd game was a 22-18 loss to Temple Sinai but in that contest Nate Treff was 4-4 and scored 4 times. Also for TSWE Jeff Goldberger was 4-5 and a double short of the cycle.

The B division race is  coming down to the 7/10 matchup between Agudath Israel (8-1) and B'nai Jeshurun (7-1) on what we are assuming will be the last day of the regular season. Agudath only had 1 game last week which was a 9-2 win over AABJD / Ohr Torah. Paul Aronoff had 2 homers in the win and was 3-3. Agudath played great defense led by Robert Field's tremendous diving catch. B'nai Jeshurun won both ends of their DH for their 7th straight win. They are also averaging a league low 6 runs allowed per game. But their next meeting vs. Agudath is against the highest scoring team in the league  (17 RPG). Ner Tamid lost both of their games but Justin Festa had 4 homers and a double on the day for NT. B'nai Or was down 8-5 to Temple Emanu-El in the 6th inning but batted around for 8 runs on the way to a 16-8 win. Eric Axler had a 3 run homer and 5 RBI's while Bill Schlosser and Fred Kain had 4 hits each. For Beth Shalom, Steve Siegal had a grand slam, 4 runs scored, 5 hits and 8 RBI's in a 23-7 win over AABJD / Ohr Torah. In their 2nd game, Beth Shalom was down 12-4 to B'nai Israel only because they threw out a runner at the plate and 2 runners at 3rd base (long strike from deep left center to 3rd by Eli Montag) with 3 outfield assists. Then they batted around in the bottom of the 6th to take a 13-12 lead only to fall in the 7th  16-13. In the loss, Eli Montag, Aaron Attermann and Steve Siegal all had homeruns. No game July4th weekend. Next games will be July 10th.

LIVINGSTON TEMPLE SOFTBALL LEAGUE
		Standings Week 10		6/26/16
Division A	W	L	Pct.	Scored	Allowed
Sharey Tefilo Israel	9	1	0.900	160	72
Temple Sinai	6	4	0.600	128	126
AABJD	5	5	0.500	114	119
Pinebrook	5	5	0.500	139	147
B'nai Brith	4	5	0.444	122	118
Suburban Torah	4	6	0.400	117	119
Chabad	4	6	0.400	127	147
Temple Sholom	2	7	0.222	93	152
Division B	W	L	Pct.	Scored	Allowed
Agudath Israel	8	1	0.889	155	100
B'nai Jeshurun	7	1	0.875	145	50
B'nai Or	6	3	0.667	120	127
B'nai Israel	5	5	0.500	152	177
Beth Shalom	4	4	0.500	94	97
Temple Emanu-El	4	5	0.444	122	132
B'nai Abraham	3	6	0.333	148	136
AABJD / Ohr Torah	2	7	0.222	80	158
Ner Tamid	1	8	0.111	90	129
Game 1			Game 2
Temple Sholom	24		Suburban Torah	20
AABJD	15		Pinebrook	14
Pinebrook	13		B'nai Brith	2
Sharey Tefilo Israel	28		Sharey Tefilo Israel	11
Chabad	14		Temple Sholom	18
Suburban Torah	9		Temple Sinai	22
B'nai Brith	18		Chabad	24
Temple Sinai	14		AABJD	25
Beth Shalom	23		B'nai Israel	16
AABJD / Ohr Torah	7		Beth Shalom	13
B'nai Or	16		B'nai Jeshurun	22
Temple Emanu-El	8		Ner Tamid	11
B'nai Abraham	4		B'nai Abraham	33
B'nai Jeshurun	20		B'nai Or	15
Ner Tamid	9		Agudath Israel	9
B'nai Israel	13		AABJD / Ohr Torah	2

DH 6/26  REGULARLY SCHEDULED
GAMES WILL BE PLAYED FIRST.
2nd GAME IS THE MAKEUP OF 5/1.
PLEASE CHECK 2nd GAME FIELDS CAREFULLY. THEY HAVE BEEN ADJUSTED TO MAKE TRAVEL EASIER WHERE POSSIBLE.

We are not using behind the HS, Riker or Harrison. The Mount Pleasant fields will be used for the remainder of the season.
MP 1 - distant corner
MP - 2 closest to the school
MP 3 - closest to RT 10



1st game - 9:00 AM  2nd game approx. 10:30 AM

Okner	MP 1	Oval	Her 1	Her 2	MP 2	Hillside	MP 3	No Game
A7-A4	A6-A2	A3-A1	B9-B7	B3-B10	B4-B6	B8-B2	A8-A5	B5-B1
A7-A1	A8-A2	A5-A3	B2-B9	B7-B3	B5-B10	B8-B4	A6-A4	B1-B6

A Division	B Division
A1 - Sharey Tefilo Israel	B1 - BYE
A2 - AABJD	B2 - B'nai Jeshurun
A3 - Pinebrook	B3 - Beth Shalom
A4 - Temple Sinai	B4 - B'nai Or
A5 - Suburban Torah	B5 - Agudath Israel
A6 - Temple Sholom	B6 - Temple Emanu-El
A7 - B'nai Brith	B7 - B'nai Israel
A8 - Chabad	B8 - B'nai Abraham
	B9 - Ner Tamid
	B10 - AABJD / Ohr Torah

Livingston Temple Softball League 06/19/16

Sharey Tefilo Israel raised their record to 7-1 and opened up a 2 game lead in the A division after sweeping their DH Sunday. In their 1st game 22-16 victory over Temple Sinai TSTI was only up by one, 15-14 after five innings and then out scored Temple Sinai 7-2 in the last two. Matt Katz, David Kramer, Jason Grebin, Mark Licht, Steve Weissman and Eric Rothfeld each had three hits. Jason Grebin had two home runs. It was also a very close one with Chabad as they were up 8-5 after 5 on the way to a 12-7 win. Mark Licht pitched a great game and had three hits while Eric Rothfeld, Rob Lazarus, Matt Katz and Jared Bayer each had two hits.  Eric Rothfeld hit a towering home run into the Harrison trees. B'nai Brith defeated Chabad in the 1st game 10-4 led by the timely hitting of Andrew Kasdan, Paul Velelis,  Scott Samlin, and Gregg Weinberger, while the defense was led by Barry Sobel who made 2 diving catches in left center field right before the woods at Harrison. Game 2 was a 21-10 win over AABJD and while the entire team hit, once again Gregg Weinberger led the way at the plate by knocking in several runs. Behind the steady pitching of Wayne Neumann, the B's were once again led by fine defensive plays in the outfield by Kasdan, and Velelis, as well as a highlight reel play at the plate where second baseman Alex Lee took the cutoff and threw a strike to catcher Paul Kuchinsky who slapped on the tag to kill a potential game changing rally from AABJD. Pine Brook took their 1st game 20-5 over AABJD but lost the night cap 22-20 to Temple Sholom. Suburban Torah's 1st game was a 23-8 win over Temple Sholom.

Agudath Israel matched the best record in the League at 7-1 winning both of their games also. First a 27-19 win vs. B'nai Abraham paced by a Marc Davis grand slam. In the second game Agudath beat Temple Emanu-El 22-20 in a come back win.  Charlie Kessler, Mark Davis and Greg Adelsberg all homered in the 7 run top of the 7th. B'nai Jeshurun (5-1) extended the leagues longest current winning streak to 5 in a row with a 20-4 win over B'nai Israel. In that 5 game span BJ has given up only 23 runs (4.6 avg). B'nai Or kept up their winning streak beating AABJD/Ohr Torah 16-5 in the 1st game. A 7 run 1st and 4 run 2nd allowed them to coast the rest of the way. Solid defense all around. Adam Forman had two homers, scored 3 with 4 RBI'S. Keith Barbarosh had a 3 run homer and Jason Cohen had a 2 run homer, scored 3 and added 3 RBI'S. Bill Schlosser had 2 hits including a triple and 2 RBI'S. Game 2 was 11-4 over Beth Shalom in which Jason Cohen had a 2 run homer and scored twice. Adam Forman had a homer and 3 RBI'S. Todd Gutkin had 2 runs and 2 RBI'S. Good defense again helped secure the victory. Scott Charles ran down a deep shot to left center. Jason Cohen had 6 assists and a putout at shortstop. Todd Gutkin had 5 putouts at third. Jordan Byk pitched a solid game. Harris Kirsch had a solo homerun in the loss. Ner Tamid lost another one in the final inning this time 14-13 to AABJD/ Ohr Torah. TNT batted around in a seven-run fourth, capped by David Dreier's two-run homer, and opened up a 13-5 lead in the top of the fifth, but surrendered a grand slam in the fifth, and a two-run homer, two-run double and a single in the seventh to lose it. Next Sunday 6/26 another DH starting at 9 AM. Fields will be changing again so check carefully. After the regularly scheduled game we will be playing the makeup from 5/1. No games July 4th weekend. The last week of the season will be a DH on 7/10 with the playoffs to follow 7/17.

LIVINGSTON TEMPLE SOFTBALL LEAGUE
		Standings Week 8		6/19/16
Division A	W	L	Pct.	Scored	Allowed
Sharey Tefilo Israel	7	1	0.875	149	70
Temple Sinai	5	3	0.625	92	90
Pinebrook	5	3	0.625	125	127
AABJD	4	4	0.500	89	95
B'nai Brith	3	4	0.429	102	93
Suburban Torah	3	5	0.375	88	91
Chabad	3	5	0.375	89	113
Temple Sholom	1	6	0.143	75	130
Division B	W	L	Pct.	Scored	Allowed
Agudath Israel	7	1	0.875	146	98
B'nai Jeshurun	5	1	0.833	103	35
B'nai Or	5	2	0.714	89	86
Temple Emanu-El	4	4	0.500	114	116
Beth Shalom	3	3	0.500	58	74
B'nai Israel	3	5	0.375	123	155
B'nai Abraham	2	5	0.286	111	101
AABJD / Ohr Torah	2	5	0.286	71	126
Ner Tamid	1	6	0.143	70	94
Game 1			Game 2
AABJD	5		Sharey Tefilo Israel	12
Pinebrook	20		Chabad	7
Sharey Tefilo Israel	22		AABJD	10
Temple Sinai	16		B'nai Brith	21
Suburban Torah	23		Pinebrook	20
Temple Sholom	8		Temple Sholom	22
B'nai Brith	10		Temple Sinai	7
Chabad	4		Suburban Torah	0
B'nai Jeshurun	20		Ner Tamid	13
B'nai Israel	4		AABJD / Ohr Torah	14
Ner Tamid	7		Beth Shalom	4
Temple Emanu-El	19		B'nai Or	11
B'nai Abraham	19		Agudath Israel	22
Agudath Israel	27		Temple Emanu-El	20
AABJD / Ohr Torah	5		B'nai Israel	15
B'nai Or	16		B'nai Abraham	14

DH 6/19  REGULARLY SCHEDULED
GAMES WILL BE PLAYED FIRST.
2nd GAME IS THE MAKEUP OF THE SECOND GAME OF THE SEASON (4/10).
PLEASE CHECK 2nd GAME FIELDS CAREFULLY. THEY HAVE BEEN ADJUSTED TO MAKE TRAVEL EASIER WHERE POSSIBLE.




1st game - 9:00 AM  2nd game approx. 10:30 AM

Okner	Behind HS	Oval	Her 1	Her 2	Harrison	Hillside	Riker	No Game
B2-B7	A1-A4	A2-A3	B8-B5	B9-B6	A7-A8	A5-A6	B10-B4	B3-B1
B7-B8	A4-A5	A3-A6	B5-B6	B3-B4	A1-A8	A2-A7	B9-B10	B1-B2

A Division	B Division
A1 - Sharey Tefilo Israel	B1 - BYE
A2 - AABJD	B2 - B'nai Jeshurun
A3 - Pinebrook	B3 - Beth Shalom
A4 - Temple Sinai	B4 - B'nai Or
A5 - Suburban Torah	B5 - Agudath Israel
A6 - Temple Sholom	B6 - Temple Emanu-El
A7 - B'nai Brith	B7 - B'nai Israel
A8 - Chabad	B8 - B'nai Abraham
	B9 - Ner Tamid
	B10 - AABJD / Ohr Torah

Livingston Temple Softball League 06/05/16

It turns out if it was not for the early start because of the Israeli Day Parade we would have been rained out again. And the streak would not have ended because Sharey Tefilo Israel (5-1) finally lost a game after 43 wins in a row. It will be a while before any team matches that feat again since it was over a 3 year span. Their last prior loss was on 7/7/13 to B'nai Jeshurun. Suburban Torah pulled off the upset with the aid of the 9 player rule. They were able to build a 14-5 lead after 4 and just managed ( something nobody else was able to do for a long time) to hold on for a 16-14 win. 3 teams are at 4-2 only 1 game back of STI in the A division- Pine Brook, AABJD and Temple Sinai. Chabad (3-3) defeated Pine Brook 28-13 despite numerous injuries (75 year old Bernie Neustadt scored as a pinch runner). Also for the winners, Scott Bader had 4 hits, Jon Tishlas 3 hits, Dave Levine had a homer, double and 2 singles and scored 3 times. Jeff Steil had 5 hits including a double and triple. Peter Gelman pitched well and had 5 hits. Evan Bell had 4 hits and 3 runs. Eric Latzman blasted 2 homeruns. Rabbi Mendy Kasowitz had 4 hits, 4 runs and also homered. Nick Catz was 3/3 with a triple and 5 runs. Keith Bader had 3 RBI's and 3 hits. AABJD defeated Temple Sinai  with long doubles into the trees at Harrison from Jay Gertleman and Ariel Fournier. Greg Zuckerman added 2 RBI's and pitcher Chaim Goldman only gave up 2 earned runs. B'nai Brith won their match up with Temple Sholom 21-9.

Agudath Israel (5-1) maintained their hold on 1st in the B division narrowly getting by Ner Tamid 9-8. Robert Field's 3 run homer in the bottom of the paved the way to a 1st inning tie at 4 for Agudath. Mike Miller's 3rd hit of the game tied it at 6 in the top of the 6th for Ner Tamid and NT took the lead in the same inning 8-6 after Jeff Bernstein's single. But David Lurie's 2 run triple in the bottom of the 7th tied it up again. Dave went on to score the winning run. B'nai Jeshurun (4-1) got the best of Temple Emanu-El 13-2 and now have the longest winning streak in the league at 4 in a row. B'nai Israel defeated AABJD/Ohr Torah 26-10. B'nai Abraham put on an offensive show led by Craig Schachter (4 hits, 2B, 5 runs) and Scott Levy (9 RBI's, 2 HR's, 2B, 3B, 4 runs) in their win over Beth Shalom 24-9. Craig also made some great defensive plays in left while Scott robbed a homerun from Beth Shalom grabbing a line drive in center with his back to the plate.

No games next Sunday. We are back on 6/19. The plan is to finish the season with all double headers. As soon as we figure out the exact schedule it will be posted. We are not going to have a full season and we are trying to make sure everyone in B plays each other at least 1 time since it is an unbalanced schedule.

LIVINGSTON TEMPLE SOFTBALL LEAGUE
		Standings Week 6		6/5/16
Division A	W	L	Pct.	Scored	Allowed
Sharey Tefilo Israel	5	1	0.833	115	47
AABJD	4	2	0.667	74	54
Temple Sinai	4	2	0.667	69	68
Pinebrook	4	2	0.667	85	100
Chabad	3	3	0.500	78	91
Suburban Torah	2	4	0.333	65	76
B'nai Brith	1	4	0.200	71	79
Temple Sholom	0	5	0.000	45	87
Division B	W	L	Pct.	Scored	Allowed
Agudath Israel	5	1	0.833	97	59
B'nai Jeshurun	4	1	0.800	83	31
Beth Shalom	3	2	0.600	54	63
B'nai Or	3	2	0.600	62	77
Temple Emanu-El	3	3	0.500	75	87
B'nai Abraham	2	3	0.400	78	59
B'nai Israel	2	4	0.333	104	121
Ner Tamid	1	4	0.200	50	61
AABJD / Ohr Torah	1	4	0.200	52	97
Game 1
Suburban Torah	16
Sharey Tefilo Israel	14
B'nai Brith	21
Temple Sholom	9
Temple Sinai	4
AABJD	17
Chabad	28
Pinebrook	13
B'nai Jeshurun	13
Temple Emanu-El	2
Beth Shalom	9
B'nai Abraham	24
B'nai Israel	26
AABJD / Ohr Torah	10
Ner Tamid	8
Agudath Israel	9

Regular schedule 6/5 - Games are on

No DH except for 2 make up games

1st game - 9:00 AM - Israeli Day Parade
Make up games approx. 10:30 AM

Okner	Behind HS	Oval	Her 1	Her 2	Harrison	Hillside	Riker	No Game
B9-B5	B2-B6	B3-B8	A8-A3	A5-A1	A4-A2	B7-B10	A7-A6	B1-B4
Make up games
Her 1	Oval
A3-A8	B4-B3

A Division	B Division
A1 - Sharey Tefilo Israel	B1 - BYE
A2 - AABJD	B2 - B'nai Jeshurun
A3 - Pinebrook	B3 - Beth Shalom
A4 - Temple Sinai	B4 - B'nai Or
A5 - Suburban Torah	B5 - Agudath Israel
A6 - Temple Sholom	B6 - Temple Emanu-El
A7 - B'nai Brith	B7 - B'nai Israel
A8 - Chabad	B8 - B'nai Abraham
	B9 - Ner Tamid
	B10 - AABJD / Ohr Torah