Livingston Temple Softball League 06/25/17

After a 15-0 win in their 1^st game against AABJD the A division leaders Chabad (10-2) defeated Agudath Israel 15-10 to open up a 2 game lead with only 2 games to go in the regular season. Leading the way for Chabad in game 2 was Eric Latzman who was 4-4 with a 2 run homer and 6 RBI’s. B’nai Brith’s 6 game winning streak was ended in a 20-19 loss to Pine Brook. BB had the tying run on in the bottom of the 7^th but could not get it across. Jared Resnick and Paul Velelis were both 4-4 in the loss. In game 2 BB was down 6 runs going into the bottom of the 7^th against B’nai Jeshurun but 2 quick runs followed by a Howie Weinrib grand slam tied it up at 15. Then back to back singles from Gregg Weinberger and Shelly Cohen led to a 2 out game winning RBI single off the bat of Andrew Kasdan.

Suburban Torah (9-2) won both halves of their DH and can lock up the B division with a win over B’nai Or this Sunday. But B’nai Or (8-2) can lock up at least a tie with a win over ST also. B’nai Or only had 1 game last week and it was an 18-13 win over Ner Tamid who led almost the entire way until B’nai Or scored 2 in the bottom of the 5^th to tie it up at 7. Then B’nai Or came back with an 11 run bottom of the 6^th to put it away. For the winners, pitcher Jordan Byk played great defense and had a bases clearing triple; SS Jason Cohen initiated two 6-6-3 double plays and also had two key hits; Keith Barbarosh had 4 hits, scored 3 and drove in 4; Hal Belovin had 3 hits and 3 RBI’s and Eric Axler played solid outfield defense adding 2 hits and 3 runs.