There are not many 10U teams that can compete with them, but the Farmingdale Greendogs are one of them.
“We always play this Farmingdale team and we know they can really play,” said LI Titans Head Coach Kenny Noe. “We know they have about 3 or 4 pitchers that can really throw so for us it’s just about grinding out at bats, getting pitch counts up and going deep into counts and it showed. We got their pitcher up over 100 pitches in four innings–he went to 107 pitches and it was after throwing 75 on Thursday so it really showed,” he added.
That pitcher was Chris Parisi, one of Farmingdale’s power arms but pitching on 2-days rest after throwing a complete game, he certainly battled to find his command.
The Titans took advantage of this by drawing five walks in four innings.
Farmingdale held a 2-1 lead after an RBI triple by Ive Mills and an RBI single by William Herbert in the first inning against Tim Montenegro.
In typical Titans fashion their confidence did not waiver against a tough pitcher. They drew back-to-back walks to lead off the second inning and then a third walk with one out to load the bases for Andrew Noe. Yesterday’s hero put the ball in play to center field but it was dropped by the center fielder allowing two runs to score and the Titans to take a 3-2 lead.
In the top of the fourth, Jack Corrigan crushed a two-run triple to extend the lead to 5-2.
The Greendogs got one back in the bottom of the fifth on an RBI single by leadoff hitter Justin Ortiz to make it 5-3 but that was as close as they would get.
Shane Meehan came on in relief to fire a 1-2-3 sixth inning to deliver the Titans the Championship.