Livingston Temple Softball League 05/29/16

In the A division, Temple Sharey Tefilo Israel won both halves of their DH to remain undefeated at 5-0 in our abbreviated season. But they also found themselves in unfamiliar territory down 8-3 to Temple Sholom after 4 innings. Then the bats woke up and they scored 9 in the 5^th and 8 in the 6^th on the way to a 20-11 victory. Jason Grebin had 3 homeruns in the win for TSTI. Cary Bayer, Mark Licht, Ken Gorman, David Kramer, and Dave Pressel had 3 hits each for the winners. They also defeated Suburban Torah 18-10. In that game, Jeff Becker, Steve Weissman, Rob Lazurus and Mike Somekh had 3 hits each. Also, Jared Bayer got his first 2 hits in Temple League play. AABJD won their game against Suburban 16-5 but lost a tight one to Temple Sinai 8-7. Jeff Falkenstein had a 3 run triple in the win while Rafi Abramowitz and Jay Gertleman both homered in the 1^st and 2^nd game. Chabad defeated Temple Sinai 16-9 in their 1^st game and lost the 2^nd to Pine Brook 14-12. Great grandfather Bernie Neustadt scored in both games for Chabad and had a single and 2 walks. In their win, Joe Bottinger was 4-4 and scored 4 runs, Max Burack was 3-3 and scored twice, Rabbi Mendy had a bases loaded hit to drive in 2 and Jeff Steil homered. Also, Pine Brook defeated B’nai Brith 25-14.

There are no undefeated teams left in the B division with Agudath Israel and Beth Shalom both splitting on the day. Agudath’s 1^st game was a 24-7 win over Temple Emanu-El with homers from Greg Adelsberg and Simeon Gutman. Greg also homered in their 2^nd game but that was a 6-4 loss to Beth Shalom (Steve Siegal 3-3, 2 RBI’s). Beth Shalom was leading their 1^st game 5-3 through 5 innings but B’nai Or scored 7 runs in the last 2 innings to take the game 10-7. In the win, Adam Forman (3-3, BB, 2 runs), Jason Cohen (Triple, 3 RBI’s), Eric Axler (2 hits, 2 runs). B’nai Or’s 2^nd game went 8 innings with B’nai Israel. Bill Schlosser’s great defensive play in right field helped B’nai Or maintain the lead 17-13 after 5 innings. B’nai Israel scored 3 in the home 6^th but left the bases loaded with 2 outs. Then B’nai Israel tied it with a solo homerun in the 7^th. But B’nai Or’s bat’s came back to life and they scored 5 in the 8^th for the 22-17 win. For the winners, Adam Forman was 4-4 with a homer, 4 runs and 4 RBI’s. Eric Axler had 3 hits, a homer, 3 runs and 5 RBI’s. Jason Cohen, Adam Lazer, Keith Barbarosh and Bill Schlosser all had 3 hits. Ner Tamid was down 10-2 to AABJD/Ohr Torah and scored 5 in the 6^th but only managed 1 in the 7^th after loading the bases with 1 out as they fell 10-8. Only 1 game next week (Israeli Day Parade) and no games the following week (Shavuot).