COLONIE — The Cup will travel a little bit north, and the Shaker High School baseball team will have bragging rights for a year.
That’s the Colonie Cup, and Shaker beat Colonie during its first game on Saturday, May 11, and then beat CBA to close out the day 2-0 in the second annual round robin type tournament of the town’s three high schools.
“We have to make sure we keep the momentum going for the last week. We have four games coming up and we have to make sure we are playing hard. We got our bats going today and that helped and we got shut down pitching from two guys who have not got a lot of work,” said Shaker Coach Rispole “These guys are resilient and they wanted to compete and they wanted to win.”
And there is, of course, the matter of bragging rights.
“That’s always great too. We’ll put this one right next to the football one,” he added with a smile.
Shaker beat Colonie 9-2 in the first game with Alanzo Barrett having a four-hit day with a double and a triple and three RBIs. Matt Snyder went 3 for 4 with an RBI and David Breakell had two hits and two RBIs
Dan Barbero had a home run for Colonie.
Shaker junior Joe Peregrim went the distance for Shaker giving up two runs on eight hits. One the mound for Colonie, Tyler Lambert and Ian Parker split the duties giving up nine runs on 11 hits.
In game two, Colonie beat CBA 10-6.
Paul Montesanti went 3 for 4 with three RBIs and Carter Bach went 3-4 with two RBIs and a double. Three other Raiders had two hits, Matthew Canastra, Parker and Tyler Catalfamo.
Peter O’Toole went 4 for 4 for the Brothers.
On the mound Braedon Plowman went five innings for Colonie giving up four runs on six hits while walking four and striking out two. Parker and Montesanti finished up giving up a combined two runs on two hits while striking out two.
For CBA, Paul Rockenstyre, Zach Konopka and Nate Kilburn combined to give up 10 runs on 13 hits while walking seven and striking out 4.
In the final game, Shaker beat CBA 6-3.
Justin Osborne went 2 for 3 for Shaker while Pat Walter had a two-run double.
O’Toole had a homerun and Collin Mesick went 1 for 3 with an RBI.
On the mound, Jason Macutek went five and two-thirds giving up three runs on three hits while walking three and striking out three.
Michael Hicks, Britt Carmer and CJ Kuntzel combined to give up six runs on eight hits while walking five and striking out three.
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