Livingston Temple Softball League 08/07/16

What seemed like the longest season we’ve ever had finally came to an end Sunday with perfect softball weather. In the A Division #1-#5 semi-final AABJD was down 6-3 in the 5^th inning in a game that looked like it could go either way. But as they usually do, Sharey Tefilo Israel found a way and scored 3 in the 5^th and 9 in the 6^th to win it 18-3. In the win, Mark Licht and Jason Grebin had 4 hits each while Steve Weissman and Dave Pressel had 3 apiece. The other semi-final was #2 Pine Brook vs. # 3 B’nai Brith and it was B’nai Brith jumping out early to a 9-0 lead. But Pine Brook closed the gap and made it close until a late surge in the visiting 6^th put BB up by 9 again as they held on for the 22-16 win. For BB, shortstop Alex Lee was 5-5 and 7 players on the team scored at least 2 runs. On defense Paul Veleleis made a lot of plays in the outfield to help hold off Pine Brook. In the A Division final STI jumped out to a 5-0 lead over BB and never looked back winning it 19-4. Ken Gorman led the attack with 4 hits. There were 3 hits each from Eric Rothfeld, Matt Katz, and Mark Licht. Jeff Becker had a homer in the win. On defense Eric Rothfeld threw out a runner at home from deep right field to end the 4^th inning. Jeff Gaier tagged out 2 runners at the plate.

In both B Division semi finals the visiting teams were giving away runs early. #3 B’nai Or fell behind #2 B’nai Jeshurun 10-1 after 1 inning and chased TBJ the whole game but slowly got it to a very tight 15-14 deficit while leaving the tying run at 3^rd in a 6 run 6^th inning. Final score TBJ 18, B’nai Or 16. Pitcher Scott Dodek had 4 hits for the winners. In the loss, Keith Barbarosh was 5-5 with a 2 run single, a run scoring triple, a 3 run homer and a grand slam (10 RBI’s). Jason Cohen had 3 hits and 4 runs. The other B Division semi final was #5 B’nai Israel vs. #8 AABJD/Ohr Torah and B’nai Israel had an early 7 run lead never looking back in a 16-9 win. In a very high scoring B Division final TBJ was ahead of B’nai Israel 20-15 in the bottom of the 6^th. They then proceeded to score 10 runs without recording an out. The final blow was a 2 run homer by Jason Miller to end the game. Also in the win, Dave Stecklowe scored 5 times and knocked a tape measure homerun that plated three. Final score TBJ 30, B’nai Israel 15.

A Division Champions 2016

Sharey Tefilo Israel

Standing left to right:

Jason Grebin, Eric Rothfeld, David Kramer, Steve Weissman, Mike Somekh, Dave Pressel, Mel Prager, Jeff Gaier, Todd Lurie

Kneeling left to right:

Bill Perlman, Matt Katz, Mark Licht, Cary Bayer,Ken Gorman, Jeff Becker, Dave Dennenberg, Rob Lazarus.

Missing from Photo:  Jared Bayer and Larry Feigenbaum

B Division Champions 2016

B'nai Jeshurun

Top - Paul Talbert, David Stecklow, Brett Freimauer, Dan Jacobs, Mike Birnberg, Eli Heitin, Rich Blann, Jason Conn

Bottom - Brett Rodriguez, Darren Port, Jason Miller, Marc Weinstein, Scott Dodek

	Livingston Temple Softball
	Playoff Results				8/7/2016
	A Division				B Division
		Semi's
#5	AABJD	3		#8	AABJD / Ohr Torah	9
#1	Sharey Tefilo Israel	18		#5	B'nai Israel	16
#3	B'nai Brith	22		#3	B'nai Or	16
#2	Pinebrook	16		#2	B'nai Jeshurun	18
		Finals
#3	B'nai Brith	4		#5	B'nai Israel	15
#1	Sharey Tefilo Israel	19		#2	B'nai Jeshurun	30

	Livingston Temple Softball
	2nd Round Playoff Schedule			8/07/2016
	Home team on bottom
	Games start at 9 AM
	2nd game immediately following
	A Division			B Division
		Game 1
	Okner			Heritage 1
#5	AABJD		#8	AABJD / Ohr Torah
#1	Sharey Tefilo Israel		#5	B'nai Israel
	Hillside			Heritage 2
#3	B'nai Brith		#3	B'nai Or
#2	Pinebrook		#2	B'nai Jeshurun
		Game 2
	Heritage 1			Heritage 2
		Finals
	Winners of Game 1			Winners of Game 1
	Home team highest seed			Home team highest seed

Livingston Temple Softball League 07/24/16

The first round of the playoffs in the B Division brought a few unexpected surprises yesterday. AABJD / Ohr Torah (3-8) has been in the league since 2011 and had never even been in a playoff game until this season. Matched up against the 9-1 #1 seed Agudath Israel, it didn't look promising. But in 3 extra innings Ohr / Torah prevailed 12-10 to move into the 2nd round next week. In the win, early homeruns off the bats of Amir Goldstein, Eric Feiler and Moshe Berkowitz had OT up 5-3 in the 4th inning. Agudath came back to take the lead 7-6 in the home 5th but it was tied at 7 after 7. Good pitching and good defense stopped the scoring for 2 innings but in the top of the 10th Ohr Torah scored 5 runs while holding CAI to 3 in the home 10th for the victory. Also for the winners, Eric Feiler was 3-5 & Joel Tenneberg 4-5. Pitcher Jerry Blugind finished innings 6-10 with a broken finger from an earlier comebacker.  B'nai Israel has been in the league a lot longer but the #5 seed had never won a playoff game until yesterday when they defeated #4 Temple Emanu-El  22-17. Next week B'nai Israel is matched up with AABJD / Ohr Torah in the 2nd round so one of these teams will be in the finals. #2 seed B'nai Jeshurun won their 1st round game 11-8 over B'nai Abraham. They will face #3 B'nai Or who defeated Beth Shalom 15-6. B'nai Or was up 10-1 after 2 innings and played solid defense the whole way never letting Beth Shalom get close. 11 out of the last 12 outs were on the ground including the game ending double play. SS Jason Cohen fielded 7 grounders with no errors. Jason also had a HR along with Bill Schlosser ( 3 RBI's , 3B) and Scott Charles.

Sharey Tefilo Israel took care of business in the A Division as the #1 seed outscored Temple Sholom 14-6. They will now face AABJD who defeated Temple Sinai 17-10. In the win, Greg Zuckerman had a 3 run homer with Chaim Goldman & Marty Moskovitz each knocking in 3 runs. #2 Pine Brook got by Suburban Torah 18-13 and they will face B'nai Brith in the 2nd round. Chabad jumped out in front of B'nai Brith 6-0 but in the bottom of the 2nd BB scored 4 to tighten the game up. BB was still down 7-5 into the bottom of the 5th but scored 4 to take a 9-7 lead and held on for the 10-9 win. A well pitched game by Wayne Neumann and strong defense by Ira Pearlman (LF) and Andrew Kasdan (SS) helped shut down Chabad from making a comeback. They had the tying run on 2nd with 2 outs in the top of the 7th. On offense, Paul Velelis, Andrew Kasdan, Ken Merber and Greg Weinberger all had timely hits for the winners. 

Livingston Temple Softball
			7/24/2016
1st Round Playoff results
A Division			B Division
Temple Sholom	6		AABJD / Ohr Torah	12	10 innings
Sharey Tefilo Israel	14		Agudath Israel	10
Chabad	9		Beth Shalom	6
B'nai Brith	10		B'nai Or	15
Suburban Torah	13		B'nai Israel	22
Pinebrook	18		Temple Emanu-El	17
AABJD	17		B'nai Abraham	8
Temple Sinai	10		B'nai Jeshurun	11

 LIVINGSTON TEMPLE LEAGUE PLAYOFF'S     7/17/16   


Home team listed first
Games start at 10:00 AM

Okner	MP 1	Oval	Her 1	Her 2	MP 2	Hillside	MP 3
A1-A8	A4-A5	A2-A7	B1-B8	B3-B6	B4-B5	B2-B7	A3-A6

                                                                                                            
Playoff seedings below:

A Division                                                                                                                                                               

A1 - Sharey Tefilo Israel

A2 - Pine Brook

A3 - B'nai Brith

A4 - Temple Sinai

A5 - AABJD

A6 - Chabad

A7 - Suburban Torah

A8 - Temple Sholom   

B Division    

B1 - Agudath Israel

B2 - B'nai Jeshurun

B3 - B'nai Or

B4 - Temple Emanu-El

B5 - B'nai Israel

B6 - Beth Shalom

B7 - B'nai Abraham

B8 - AABJD / Ohr Torah