Livingston Temple Softball League 06/07/15

Sharey Tefilo Israel (10-0) had all they could handle with Temple Sinai this past Sunday but still managed another win. TSTI only had a 1 run lead into the 7th inning as their opponents played solid defense and added timely hitting for the first 6 innings. The visiting Sharey Tefilo Israel added only 1 more run in the top of the 7th for a shaky 2 run lead at 12-10. But Temple Sinai failed to score in the bottom of the inning with a diving catch of a line drive over 3rd base by Carey Bayer ending it at that score. Consistent hitting continued for the winners from Jeff Becker, David Pressel and Dave Denenberg. Temple Sinai's makeup game was just as close against Pinebrook. TS scored 8 runs in the 5th inning and took a 5 run lead into the bottom of the 7th. No problem for Pinebrook who came up with 5 runs to force extra innings at 13-13. TS then scored 4 more in the 8th and Rick Teich's sliding catch in the outfield in the bottom of the 8th gave Temple Sinai the 17-14 win.  Pinebrook's  earlier game against B'nai Jeshurun saw them with an early 9-2 lead but B'nai Jeshurun fought all the way back for a 13-12 lead going into the bottom of the 7th. Winning it for Pinebrook (7-3) though was Amen Setrak's 2 run walk off homer with no outs in the home 7th. AABJD (7-3) won both games of their double header  defeating Temple Sholom 14-11 in the early game. TSWE was down 14-4 going into the 7th and managed to score 7 runs with 2 outs in the loss before they ran out of gas. In the first win, Jeff Falkenstein had a homer and 4 RBI's and Josh Kaplan had 2 RBI's. AABJD also got the better of B'nai Jeshurun by a 14-7 margin with Jeff Falkenstein adding 2 more triples. AABJD's 5 game winning streak is now the 2nd longest current streak in the league. Suburban Torah won their 3rd in a row after a 1-6 start defeating B'nai Shalom 22-1.

In the B division, B'nai Brith (8-2) maintained a share of 1st handling Agudath Israel 21-11. Chabad (8-2) kept pace with a 17-13 win over B'nai Or (7-3). A 9-2 lead after 3 innings for B'nai Or was not big enough to hold off Chabad who scored 7 in the 4th to tie it up. B'nai Or came back to go ahead 13-10 but 7 more runs in the top of the 7th put the game away at 17-13 for Chabad. B’nai Or has given up 38 runs to Chabad in 2 losses but against the rest of the B division are 7-1 giving up an average of only 8 runs per game. In the win, Peter Gelman was 5-5,  Micha Mandel had 4 RBI's, and Donny Kanovsky scored 3 times and had a terrific sliding / diving catch in left center. David Levine and Eric Latzman also had 3 hits each. Beth Shalom (7-3) defeated Ner Tamid 8-4 with both teams making great defensive plays. Beth Shalom pulled off 3 inning ending double plays and an 8-6-5 put out of a runner trying to stretch a double into a triple to kill a rally. Ner Tamid had an outfield assist also on a 10-5 put out at 3^rd with a perfect strike thrown from right field to get a runner that was trying to go 1^st to 3^rd on a single. Ner Tamid's only offense came from the Festa family with Father Ron getting a double, Adam adding 2 triples and Justin blasting a homerun. For Beth Shalom it started with back to back triples from Eli Montag and Neil Grossman who was 3-3 with 2 RBI's on the day.  Harris Kirsch had a double and 2 RBI's and Eli and Neil both scored twice in Beth Shalom's victory. Also, B'nai Abraham edged Temple Emanu-El 7-6 and AABJD/Ohr Torah defeated B'nai Israel 24-11.