Tuesday, August 7, 2012
For the first time in the program's 82-year history, Barnstable Post 206 American Legion Baseball is heading today to the Northeast Regionals in Old Orchard Beach Maine to make a bid to get to the American Legion World Series in Shelby, NC.
"Inning by inning." That's been Barnstable Post 206 American Legion Baseball's motto all season long as it marched through the regular season toward its first-ever Massachusetts State Championship in Worcester two weeks ago. And it's the same motto the team will take with it this morning as it boards a coach bus en route to the 2012 American Legion Northeast Regionals in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, according to Manager Sean Walsh, now in his 25th year coaching baseball. "This has been an extraordinarily difficult two-week layoff," Walsh said. "We've done just about everything possible to keep the guys sharp, practicing and playing scrimmages. It's not an easy thing to do on the heels of the waning momentum of winning the state championship…
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Backed by superlative pitching in each game its played thus far this season, Barnstable Post 206 won its first four games to start the 2012 campaign with a monster-schedule ahead for the rest of the season.
Great pitching wins games, but gutsy, fluid defense wins championships. Barnstable Post 206 American Legion got off to its best start in 26 years this week by winning its first four games thanks to errorless defense in its first three, then capped things off last night with a 21-hit, 14-4 win over Rockland Post 147 at Elizabeth Lowell Park in Cotuit. If Barnstable was looking for an answer to its offense in its first three games, it found it last night with eight players hitting in the double-figures. Alex Pernick led the way with his best performance in recent memory, a 3-4, five-RBI effort with a two-run homer and a pair of RBI doubles. WIll Toffey went 3-3 with 4 RBI, Mark Brodd went 3-4 and Terrence Mudie went 3-3 in his first-ever …
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Hard-throwing senior righty Keegan Dellacona spun a masterful web yesterday afternoon at Dr. Paul F. Walsh Memorial Field in New Bedford, defeating the host New Bedford Whalers, 8-0, in a complete-game, one-hit outing.
If Barnstable High School has nothing else this season, it has pitching. Loads of it. Case and point: one Keegan Dellacona, a 6'4" senior righty who yesterday spun an 8-0 masterful web over the host New Bedford Whalers with a complete-game, one-hitter. He struck out nine batters, walked one and the sole basehit he allowed was a slow-rolling dribbler to third in the bottom of the first inning. When the dust finally settled, Dellacona had thrown 95 pitches in seven innings of work, 66 of those pitches were strikes. His best innings, arguably, were the bottom halves of the fourth and fifth innings as he struck out four, got one batter to ground out and another to foul out. In those two frames, he threw 22 pitches, 19 of which were strikes. "I…
