Livingston Temple Softball League 04/17/16

Temple Sharey Tefilo Israel picked up right where they left off winning both ends of their opening day double header. The first game was a 20-5 win over Temple Sholom of West Essex with Mike Somehk’s 4 hits leading the offense . Steve Weisman, David Kramer and Dave Pressel had 3 hits each. On defense Larry Feigenbaum and Jason Grebin made great catches. The 2^nd game was a 21-2 win over Pine Brook with Matt Katz and Dave Pressel getting 4 hits apiece. Jeff Becker and David Kramer each had 3 hits. Nice defensive plays were made by Ken Gorman and Carey Bayer. Eric Rothfeld pitched well both games. Billy Perlman had his first at bat in 8 years for TSTI and celebrated his 80^th birthday with a single. Chabad lost 24-9 to Temple Sinai in the first game despite a triple and homerun from David Levine. Scott Bader was 3-3 with a walk in the loss. Chabad bounced back to take their 2^nd game 10-9 over Suburban Torah. Leadoff hitter Scott Bader went 4-4 and Jon Tishlas hit a homer and triple for the winners. David Levine went 3-3 with a homerun and 2 doubles while playing excellent defense in right center. Jeff Steil pitched both games on short notice and also contributed with 4 hits on the day. Pine Brook defeated B'nai Brith 17-13 to finish off a split of their 2 games. Temple Sinai was the only other A division team to sweep both ends of their DH. They defeated B'nai Brith 13-9 in the 2nd game.

In the B division, Agudath Israel was the only team to win 2 games. They defeated B'nai Or 17-2 with Joe Kelmanovich and Robert Field going 3 for 3. Kevin Haney hit a home run over the left field fence at Okner for the winners also.  CAI got the best of B'nai Abraham 13-9 in the 2nd game with a HR from Simeon Gutman and triples from Paul Aronoff (bases clearing go ahead) and Robert Field. Paul also had a spectacular diving catch of a line drive in left which he converted into a double play. B'nai Or fared better in the 2nd game defeating AABJD Ohr Torah 25-18. Pitcher Bill Schlosser had 2 triples, 3 runs and 5 RBI's. Jason Cohen added 4 hits and 3 runs. Todd Gutkin (4 hits, 4 runs, 3 RBI). Eric Axler (3 hits, 4 runs, 4 RBI). Adam Lazer (3 hits, 4 runs. 3 RBI). And Ira Forman 3 hits. Ner Tamid lost their first game by a score of 17-2 to B'nai Abraham but came back strong in the 2nd game to defeat Temple Emanu-El 17-5. In that game for Ner Tamid David Dreier had a 2 run homer, Bob Perris had a 3 run triple and TNT turned a rare 3-3-2 double play.  B'nai Jeshurun lost a close game to Beth Shalom 12-10 highlighted with good defensive plays from both sides. For Beth Shalom Bob Sperling (3 hits, double, 2 runs, 3 RBI), Steve Siegal (3 hits, 2 doubles, 2 runs, 2 RBI), Mike Elchoness (2 hits, 2 RBI) and  Dan Bank (3 hits, 2 runs). On defense Steve Siegal (2nd base ) and Doug Netburn (1st base) both turned unassisted double plays. Beth Shalom was down 7-2 early and came from behind to win while shutting out B'nai Jeshurun over the last 3 innings. TBJ took it out on B'nai Israel the 2nd game winning 30-9. No games next week. May 1 we will have another DH. First game will be the regularly scheduled game from May 1 at 9 AM. 2^nd game will be the early game from the 4/10 rainout.

Okner	Behind HS	Oval	Her 1	Her 2	Harrison	Hillside	Riker	BYE
A6-A4	A8-A2	A5-A3	B8-B4	B7-B3	B5-B10	A7-A1	B2-B9	B1-B6
B5-B3	B4-B7	A1-A5	B10-B2	A2-A4	B8-B6	A3-A8	A6-A7	B9-B1