Post 25 is coming on strong
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By POODY WALSH Herald Correspondent - Published: July 10, 2009
WINDSOR — Jon Ferrero had four hits and drove in seven runs as Woodstock thrashed Windsor 16-4 in a Southern Vermont American Legion baseball game Thursday night at MacLeay-Royce Field.
Before the game Woodstock coach Butch Wardwell was saying how much he liked his team, even though it was a team that was not going to the playoffs. He liked them even better after the contest.
"They're such a wonderful bunch of guys to coach," said Wardwell. "They really like to play baseball."
Woodstock, coming off a 2-0 win over Chester earlier in the week, is 3-6 on the season and looking to play nine more games in the next 10 days.
Windsor, 0-7, even has a tougher task, having to play 11 games before the end of the regular season July 19. Post 25 will play four times over the weekend. Fair Haven and Bellows Falls will come to Windsor on Saturday, with the BF game to follow the noon game with Fair Haven.
Windsor will play a doubleheader at Bennington on Sunday then two more with Chester on Tuesday night in Ludlow.
Woodstock is looking at just as taxing a weekend, playing Bellows Falls at noon Saturday and Rutland at 4 p.m. On Sunday, Post 24 has a doubleheader scheduled at Brattleboro.
One of Ferrero's hits as a two-run homer and he was just a double shy of the cycle. He had two shots at it, singling for the second time in the fifth and taking a called third strike in the sixth.
It was a nice all-around game for Woodstock, which got a solid pitching performance from Brenden Mayhew and pounded out 14 hits. But what perhaps pleased Wardwell most of all was the defense, which made just one error.
"And that's coming off an errorless game against Chester," Wardwell said.
While Wardwell was lauding his defenders, Windsor coach Tom McHugh was not at all pleased with his defenders, who made at leas one error in every inning and seven in the game that was called after the sixth inning by the mercy rule.
"This was not a good night," said McHugh. "The defense was ugly."
While there were seven physical errors, there were other balls that fell untouched in the outfield and not gotten to in the infield. All of which led to forcing Post 25 hurler Hunter Knox to throw an incredible 91 pitches in four innings. He finished up with 108 tosses in five innings.
Brenden Mayhew was the winning pitcher for Woodstock, allowing seven hits over five innings. He struck out two and walked four.
"I thought we could have done a better job against him," McHugh said. "We particularly missed some chances early."
Woodstock didn't miss on its early chances as it scored three times in the first inning and added four more runs in the second. Ferrero had a two-run triple in the first and two-run single in the second. In the fourth inning, Andrew Wietzel singled to start it and Ferrero followed with a two-run homer to left-center. Ferrero's seventh RBI came in the fifth when he singled in Wietzel, who had reached on an error.
Woodstock wrapped up the win with a six-run sixth, keyed by a two-run single from Greg Selbo.
Wietzel also had a big game at the plate for Woodstock with three hits while Mayhew, Justin Wardwell and Matt Kempton all had two.
Windsor scored single runs in the first, second, fifth and sixth inning. Justin Menard was the only Windsor player with more than one hit as he had two singles.
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