Baseball Wins Second Straight FAA Title

In the FAA championship, Brunswick topped Hamden Hall on Friday, 7-1, winning its second straight FAA post-season title. The freshly-minted champions collected 14 hits on the day, while allowing just two Hornet hits over seven innings. The Bruins finish their season with a 20-2 record, including an unblemished 14-0 mark against FAA foes.

 

The 2016 championship showdown pitted two familiar foes, as the two teams faced off in the 2015 FAA title game, where Brunswick topped Hamden Hall, 3-0.

 

This year, Brunswick jumped to a 3-0 lead by the second inning. After surrendering a run in the fifth, the Bruins tacked on a run in the fifth and three more runs in the sixth for the 7-1 victory.

 

Brunswick, ranked sixth in the MSGVarsity Tri-State Poll and 43^rd nationally by perfectgame.org, played in front of its biggest home crowd of the season. The several hundred fans were in for a show, as the Bruins started off with a bang in the bottom of the first.

 

Teddy Sabato welcomed Hamden Hall with a leadoff homer to left for a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning. It was Sabato’s second four-bagger of the season.

 

Connor Redahan followed with a double to deep centerfield, and later scored on an RBI single by Aaron Sabato, making it a 2-0 Brunswick lead.

 

Redahan made it a 3-0 game in the second inning, smacking a bases-loaded single to right, plating Charlie Sealy from third base.

 

Teddy Sabato, who started the game on the mound for Brunswick, went five innings and allowed just one unearned run. Sabato earned the win (2-1) as he collected four strikeouts.

 

With his team leading 4-1 in the sixth, Trevor Johnson relieved Sabato and pitched the final two innings to earn his sixth save of the year.

 

Brunswick earned some breathing room in the bottom of the sixth, scoring three runs on four singles. Sealy and Trystan Sarcone each had RBI singles in the frame, while Teddy Sabato hit a sac-fly to score the seventh run of the game.

 

Five Bruins had multi-hit days, including an RBI and three singles apiece by Sarcone and Aaron Sabato. Teddy Sabato finished with two hits including a homer and two RBI, while Sealy added two singles and two runs batted in. Redahan chipped in with a single and a double along with an RBI for Brunswick.

 

Congratulations to the FAA back-to-back baseball champions.