Livingston Temple Softball League 05/10/15

Sharey Tefilo Israel (7-0) looked like they were going to have another quick game when they scored 11 in the first inning but Suburban Torah kept narrowing the gap every inning before falling in a 17-12 victory for TSTI. Pitcher Dave Kramer was 4-4 with a HR in the win. The outstanding outfield defense continued for the leaders with Steve Weisman making some rally killing sliding catches in right center and Larry Feigenbaum  making a juggling catch in center. Keeping up with the A division leaders was Pinebrook (6-1) who narrowly got by B'nai Shalom 13-12. AABJD held Temple Sinai to only 3 runs on the strength of some great defense by shortstop Moshe Glick and 2nd baseman Joshua Kaplan in their 11-3 win.

Chabad (6-1) maintained a share of the B division lead with a 19-9 win over AABJD/Ohr Torah. Peter Gelman and Eric Latzman both homered in the win. Donny Kanovsky was 3-3 and also added a long HR for Chabad. On defense David Levine made a diving catch in right center taking away a run scoring hit from the opposition. In his 2nd game back for Temple Emanu-El, Alan Salzman was doing what he has done for many years - annoying the opposing batters. B'nai Brith (6-1) could only manage 3 runs in the first 6 innings and went into the bottom of the 7th down 9-3 to the E-Men. But back to back homeruns from Jason Crimmins and Ken Merber after 1 out put B'nai Brith within striking distance. A few batters later Ira Perlstein blasted a game winning HR to ice it at 10-9.  Ner Tamid had homeruns from Rob Crum, Dave Drier and Mike Miller but in the bottom of the 7th they left the tying and winning runs on 2nd and 3rd falling to B'nai Abraham 10-9. Agudath Israel was down 21-18 in the top of the 7th with the bases loaded but failed to push any more runs across in a loss to B'nai Israel. In a very low scoring affair Beth Shalom did not have one extra base hit in the entire game. The closest they could get was a drive toward the right field line that was gloved by Bill Schlosser with a great play. B'nai Or only had one extra base hit which was a long drive by Jason Cohen into deep center for a triple but the runner from first base was tagged out at home on great throws by Zach Cohen (RC) to Eli Montag (SS) to Dan Bank (C). Other outstanding defensive plays on Beth Shalom were made by Jeff Wasserman (3B) and Brett Kaplice (1B) as they held on to win 6-2.