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Ridge 13U Baseball One Run Short of Northern NJ Championship

Team makes it to Northern NJ Babe Ruth championship before falling to Bayonne. Will head next to Middle Atlantic Tournament.

Despite a comeback to reach a 4-4 tie in the 7th inning, Ridge 13U baseball dropped Wednesday's Northern N.J. Babe Ruth championship game with a 5-4 loss to Bayonne.

The Bayonne team scored the winning run in the bottom of the 7th in a game played at at South Orange’s Cameron Field, according to information from the team.

As a result of reaching the level of runner-up in the Northern NJ State Championship, the Ridge team has qualified to advance to the Babe Ruth Middle-Atlantic Regional Tournament in upstate New York beginning August 31.

The Ridge 13U team had beat Millburn 3 to 1 on Tuesday night in the Northern New Jersey semi-final game. The team had reached the semi-final game after winning the first rounds of the tournament last weekend.

Ridge’s 13U team previously had swept the District 10 playoffs to gain a spot in the Babe Ruth Tournament.

The 13U championship team includes Coach Dan Spina, Manager and Coach John Heffernan, Louie Lafakis, Devin Stieglitz, Patrick Heffernan, Patrick Zadroga, John Steitz, James Crowley, Sean Spina, Joe Covello, Ryan Gogerty, Andrew Lusardi, Manager and Coach Doug Crowley, Brandon Radice, and Anthony Roti. Nick Carola, Anthony Lake and Andrew Micale also were part of the team.


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