Livingston Temple Softball League 07/06/14

Sharey Tefilo Israel (13-0) has one more game to win for a perfect regular season. This past week TSTI scored 14 in the 1st and 9 in the 3rd using a lot of singles to get by Pine Brook 28-13 in 5 innings. TSTI is the first team in the league to score over 250 runs in a regular season and they still have one game left. They can also be the first A division team to give up less than 100 runs in a season but would have to hold Temple Emanu-El to 5 runs or less next week.  In Temple Emanu-El's undefeated regular season (2003) they gave up only 100 runs.  The E-Men edged B'nai Jeshurun (9-4) 10-9 courtesy of an Adam Phelp's game ending RBI in the bottom of the 7th. Rob Goldberg and Andrew Greenberg stood out defensively keeping Temple Emanu-El in the game the whole way. AABJD (9-4) moved back into a tie for 2nd with a 17-5 win over Temple Sinai. For the winners, Andrew Israeli had 5 assists and Doug Eisenberg had 5 RBI's. B'nai Shalom won a seesaw battle with B'nai Abraham (4 lead changes) after falling behind 13-9 in the 6th by scoring 5 runs in the bottom of the 7th. Pitcher Bennet Schwartz had 3 hits to help his own cause. Michael Helderman had 3 hits driving in the tying run in the 7th with 2 outs. Michael also scored the winning run on Larry Lesnik's 2 out single. The 14-13 final set up a 3 way tie for the 6-7-8 seed in the A division. But unofficially it looks like the winner of the B'nai Abraham / Temple Sinai game will be the #6 seed and the loser will join Temple Emanu-El in the 7-8 spot.  

The top 3 teams in the B division all bounced back with wins this week and 1st place will be decided by the winner of Agudath Israel's (10-3) game with Temple Sholom (10-3) next week. Agudath Israel thought they had their game won 20-5 in 5 innings but a dropped fly with 2 outs in the 5th led to 10 more runs for Chabad who eventually fell 23-15. For the winners, Greg Adelsberg had 2 triples, 2 homeruns and 9 RBI's. 4 hits for Aaron Gerberg and 3 each for Paul Aaronoff (5 runs scored), Jeff Weinstock and Jason Kay. Temple Sholom defeated Ner Tamid 17-4 with pitcher Glenn Lieberman going 4-4. Also perfect at the plate in the win was Jeff Goldberger (2 singles, 3B, 2 run HR). B'nai Brith (9-4) still has a shot at the #2 seed after a 17-2 win against B'nai Israel. B'nai Brith holds the tiebreaker edge on Temple Sholom but not against Agudath Israel. B'nai Or (8-5) continued their move up with a 28-8 win over Ohr Torah. The winners had 25 runs after 2 innings the 2nd being a 19 run inning for a team record. Keith Barbarosh hit for the cycle while scoring 3 and driving in 5. Ten players scored at least 2 runs and ten had RBI's. In the final game of the division it was close for a while but Suburban Torah (8-5) scored the last 9 runs to defeat Beth Shalom 11-4. The playoffs begin next week for B'nai Israel and Ner Tamid. The winner of their game Sunday will be the #8 seed in the B division.