Winning team Beth Shalom above after defeating Ohr Torah 17-13 in the B division final. Ohr Torah batted around to score 5 in the top of the 1^st inning. Beth Shalom came right back batting around in both the 1^st and 2^nd innings to take a 14-6 lead. Ohr Torah chipped away to get within 17-13 after 6 innings which turned out to be the final score as Ohr Torah could not get anything going in the top of the 7^th. Everyone in the Beth Shalom lineup had a timely hit but the win was highlighted by great defensive plays – notably Josh Lipshitz at 3^rd who made play after play saving 5 or 6 runs. Josh also had 3 doubles and 3 runs scored. Mitch Berkey pitched another strong game and had a key 2 out 3 run double which was the early turning point of the game.

TSTI scored 6 runs in the bottom of the 6th to take a 4 run lead and held on to win 17-15 over Chabad of West Orange for their 5th title in the past 6 years.  The A division championship game was finally played Monday night 8/20. 

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Championship Games 8/20 - 8:00 PM - A Division
8/23 - 8:00 PM - B Division
Home team on bottom Both games are at Okner
A Division  A3 - Chabad West Orange A1 - Sharey Tefilo Israel
B Division
B6 - AABJD / Ohr Torah
B4 - Beth Shalom

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Final Standings  7/29

Link to enter scores

A Division
Team	W	L	%	RF	RA
Sharey Tefilo (TSTI)	10	2	0.833	189	120	A1
B'nai Brith (BB)	9	3	0.750	182	101	A2
Chabad (CWO)	7	5	0.583	151	137	A3
B'nai Jeshurun (BJ)	7	5	0.583	179	151	A4
Pinebrook (PB)	6	6	0.500	159	157	A5
Temple Sinai (TS)	6	6	0.500	126	132	A6
B'nai Or (BO)	3	9	0.250	102	180	A7
Suburban Torah (ST)	0	12	0.000	72	186	A8
Chabad wins tie breaker head to head with B'nai Jeshurun
Pine Brook wins tie breaker head to head with Temple Sinai
B Division
Team	W	L	%	RF	RA
Agudath (AI)	8	2	0.800	140	103	B1
AABJD (AA)	6	4	0.600	116	107	B2
B'nai Abraham (BA)	6	4	0.600	115	127	B3
Beth Shalom (BS)	6	5	0.545	149	143	B4
B'nai Israel (BI)	5	5	0.500	112	110	B5
AABJD/Ohr Torah (AO)	3	7	0.300	126	114	B6
Ner Tamid (NT)	2	9	0.182	91	153	B7
AABJD wins tie breaker head to head  with B'nai Abraham

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Softball Write up for Sunday - 4/22

Beth Shalom 4 - Ner Tamid  3

A defensive struggle. Single runs for both teams in the first, then one more for Beth Shalom in the second. 

For the 2nd week in a row Jeremy Kross hit a late homerun to make the difference for Beth Shalom. 

Leading 2-1 into the top of the 7th Jeremy's 2 run blast gave them a 4-1 lead which was just enough to hold on to win 4-3. 

Great defense behind the pitching of Harris Kirsch with 5 shutout innings (2-6) in a row for the winners. 

Ner Tamid had the bases loaded in the bottom of the inning and scored two on Dave Dreier’s single but fell 1 run short. 

Bnai Brith 25 - Temple Sinai 1

B’nai Brith puts up 20+ runs for the second straight week with a 25-1 win over Temple Sinai. 

“Big Daddy” Neumann pitched a great game holding Sinai to one run and Howie Weinrib added another HR.  

The big star of the game for BB, however, was Jared Resnick who hit for the cycle going 4 for 5.

Agudath Israel 12 - Bnai Abraham 4

Andy Brown went 4- 4 with a home run.

 TSTI 21 - B'nai Or 7

For the second week in a row, it took the TSTI lineup a couple innings to get going,

 but after going in a 2-0 hole with some big hits by the scrappy B'nai Or squad (including a home run to lead off the bottom of the first inning), 

TSTI played solid defense and opened up its offense, with a 5-run third inning, a 7-run fourth and a 5-run sixth.  

That's all they needed to finish off last years B-division champs, who played with spirit, but couldn't sustain a rally long enough to catch TSTI.  

For TSTI, Mark Licht, back after his week one absence, pitched a gem.  Matt Katz, also playing his first game of the season had 3 hits.  

Mike Somekh pitched in 3 hits, Jason Grebin had four hits and Dave Pressel walked twice.

AABJD 22 - B'nai Israel 18

AABJD jumped into the lead but it was tied up by the 2nd inning. But in the 3rd B/Israel blew it open with a 8 run inning.

AABJD chipped away and had their breakouts in the 6 and 7th inning including a 3 run homer by Moshe Glick. 

B/Israel tried a come back in the 7th but fell short.

-Ariel Fournier

ariel@afournier.com

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STANDINGS AND RESULTS AFTER 2 WEEKS 

A Division
Team	W	L	%	RF	RA
B'nai Brith (BB)	2	0	1.000	52	9
Sharey Tefilo (TSTI)	2	0	1.000	40	21
Chabad (CWO)	2	0	1.000	36	26
Pinebrook (PB)	1	1	0.500	32	30
B'nai Jeshurun (BJ)	1	1	0.500	34	31
Suburban Torah (ST)	0	2	0.000	20	34
Temple Sinai (TS)	0	2	0.000	12	42
B'nai Or (BO)	0	2	0.000	15	48
B Division
Team	W	L	%	RF	RA
Beth Shalom (BS)	2	0	1.000	19	15
AABJD (AA)	2	0	1.000	37	25
Agudath (AI)	1	0	1.000	12	4
B'nai Israel (BI)	1	1	0.500	36	27
AABJD/Ohr Torah (AO)	0	1	0.000	12	15
Ner Tamid (NT)	0	2	0.000	10	17
B'nai Abraham (BA)	0	2	0.000	7	30
15-Apr	BB	27		22-Apr	AA	24
	BO	8			BI	18
15-Apr	BA	3		22-Apr	AI	12
	BI	18			BA	4
15-Apr	AA	13		22-Apr	PB	18
	NT	7			ST	11
15-Apr	CWO	16		22-Apr	TSTI	21
	ST	9			BO	7
15-Apr	BJ	17		22-Apr	BS	4
	TS	11			NT	3
15-Apr	TSTI	19		22-Apr	BB	25
	PB	14			TS	1
15-Apr	BS	15		22-Apr	CWO	20
	AO	12			BJ	17

A Division Champions 2017:  
Chabad of West Orange