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Neumann-Goretti . . . 2016 PIAA Class AA State Champs! On June 16, at Penn State's Medlar Field at Lubrano Park, Neumann-Goretti beat Bishop McCort, of Johnstown, 3-0, to claim its first state baseball title. Ethan "E" Pritchett pitched a three-hitter with eight strikeouts and Brian Verratti, after scoring a run in the first inning (walk, sac, SB/E-2 combo), smacked a two-run triple to right-center in the fifth. |
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The title-game boxscore . . .
| Neumann-Goretti 3, Bishop McCort 0 | ||||||||||
| NEUM.-GOR. | AB | R | H | BI | BISHOP McCORT | AB | R | H | BI | |
| Brian Verratti cf | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | Boston Bradley 1b | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Colin Eiser rf | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Logan Wade c | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Nicky D'Amore 3b | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Blake Wade ss | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Jared Healey ss | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bryce Kramer dh | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Aidan Baur 2b | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Braden Rosemas pr | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Lou Testa 1b | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Ian Fleck 2b | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| Adam Jaep pr | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Zef Leech rf | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Joe LaFiora dh | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Chris Miller lf | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Steve Pizza pr | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Brenden Lavely 3b | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| RJ McGettigan lf | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | Logan Kasper cf | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Anth. Pierandozzi pr | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Ethan Pritchett p | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| 23 | 3 | 5 | 2 | |||||||
| Not part of batting order: Eric Nardini, N-G, c. Billy Wilson, BM, p; Nick Beblar, BM, p. | ||||||||||
| Neumann-Goretti | 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 - 3 | |||||||||
| Bishop McCort | 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 | |||||||||
| E: L. Wade. DP: McCort. LOB: N-G 6, McCort 8. 3B: Verratti. SB: Verratti 3, Bradley. S: Eiser, Pritchett, Leech. | ||||||||||
| Neumann-Goretti | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
| Ethan Pritchett (W) | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 8 |
| Bishop McCort | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
| Billy Wilson (L) | 4.1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| Nick Beblar | 2.3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| HBP: by Beblar (Verratti, Baur), by Miller (Pritchett). WP: Pritchett. | ||||||
| T: 2:14 (rain delay of 1:48 before home 4th). | ||||||
Postseason statistics . . . (eight games)
| BATTING | AB | R | H | BI | AVG. | 2B | 3B | HR |
| RJ McGettigan | 20 | 1 | 8 | 7 | .400 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Colin Eiser | 23 | 5 | 9 | 0 | .391 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Brian Verratti | 23 | 5 | 8 | 4 | .348 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Joe LaFiora | 21 | 0 | 6 | 4 | .286 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nicky D'Amore | 22 | 5 | 6 | 3 | .273 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Aidan Baur | 19 | 5 | 4 | 7 | .211 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Lou Testa | 24 | 2 | 5 | 3 | .208 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jeff Ciocco | 10 | 0 | 2 | 1 | .200 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jared Healey | 21 | 3 | 4 | 1 | .190 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ethan Pritchett | 14 | 0 | 2 | 2 | .143 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| George Masciulli | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Steve Pizza | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Anthony Pierandozzi | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| *-Eric Nardini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 197 | 32 | 54 | 32 | .274 | 7 | 2 | 0 | |
| SB: Verratti 4, Eiser 3, Healey 2, Masciulli. | ||||||||
| *-started all eight games (not part of batting order) | ||||||||
| PITCHING | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | ERA | |
| Jeff Ciocco (4-0) | 26 | 20 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 21 | 0.54 | |
| Ethan Pritchett (3-0) | 27 | 18 | 3 | 3 | 19 | 28 | 0.78 | |
| Jared Healey (1-0) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.00 | |
| Joe Messina | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.00 | |
| 56 | 39 | 7 | 5 | 27 | 53 | 0.63 | ||
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The Season's Results (20-6) . . .
| NON-LEAGUE | RESULT |
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5-1 |
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| Episcopal | W, 6-0 |
| Gloucester Catholic (NJ) | W, 6-5 |
| Council Rock North | L, 9-2 |
| Ryan | W, 6-2 |
| SCH Academy | W, 11-6 |
| Prep Charter | W, 5-2 |
| LEAGUE | RESULT |
| 7-5 | |
| Wood | L, 6-5 |
| Ryan | W, 3-0 |
| Lansdale | L, 4-3 |
| La Salle | L, 5-0 |
| O'Hara | W, 1-0 |
| Judge | L, 2-1 |
| SJ Prep | W, 8-4 |
| Roman | L, 2-0 |
| McDevitt | W, 8-1 |
| Bonner-Prendie | W, 4-0 |
| Conwell-Egan | W, 5-1 |
| Carroll | W, 3-1 |
| CL PLAYOFFS | RESULT |
| 3-0 | |
| Roman | W, 2-1 |
| Bonner-Prendie | W, 9-3 |
| SJ Prep | W, 3-2 |
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CITY TITLE |
RESULT |
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1-0 |
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*MaST Charter |
W, 6-0 |
| *-not a Public League school, but within city limits | |
| and forced to play in D-12 | |
| STATES | RESULT |
| 4-0 | |
| Lancaster Catholic | W, 5-1 |
| North Penn-Mansfield | W, 1-0 |
| North Schuylkill | W, 3-0 |
| Bishop McCort (Johnstown) | W, 3-0 |
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WEBSITE RECAP
JUNE 16
STATE PLAYOFFS, FINAL
CLASS AA
At Penn State
Neumann-Goretti 3, Bishop McCort 0: While enabling the Saints to seize
their third state championship of the school year (also boys/girls basketball),
Ethan "E" Pritchett fired a three-hitter with eight strikeouts, five walks and a
123 pitch count. Brian Verratti reached base in all four of his plate
appearances, drawing two walks, getting plunked once and creating a 3-0 lead
with a two-run, fifth-inning triple to right-center. He also stole three bases
and scored a first-inning run on a steal/E-2 combo. RJ McGettigan had two of
N-G's five hits. N-G became the fifth school in Pennsylvania history to win two
boys state titles in the three major sports in the same academic year. This dual
feat was the first to involve baseball. Also, the Saints were the first
CL baseball team to accomplish a CL/CT/states sweep. Heavy rain caused a 108-minute delay
just before McCort, of Johnstown, batted in the home fourth. When play resumed,
Pritchett walked three before humping up for a two-out, looking third strike. In
four rounds of state playoffs, N-G allowed just one run total and none over the
last 24 innings (1, 9, 7, 7). Pritchett yielded no runs over his final 26
innings of the season -- six in a CL semi vs. Bonner-Prendie, six in the City
Title vs. MaST Charter (Joe Messina finished), seven in a state quarterfinal vs.
North Penn-Mansfield (that game went nine innings, Jared Healey finished) and
seven in this one.
Photo by Bradley C. Bower
Neumann-Goretti pinch-runners Steve Pizza (9) and Anthony Pierandozzi
(12) are greeted by
exuberant teammates after scoring on Brian Verratti's fifth-inning triple.
