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Tyngsborough Tigers Baseball '08

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No date with destiny for North Reading

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Monday, June, 09 By Hector Longo
Staff writer

As far as second dates go, this was a bad one.

For the second straight year, Tyngsboro eliminated Cape Ann League champion North Reading in the Division 3 North title game.

Last year was a 2-0 squeaker. This one was a bludgeoning, a 16-2 decision that was over early in the 90-degree heat here at LeLacheur Park.

"The best team won," said coach Frank Carey, who completes his 41st season with an amazing 641-239 mark after the Hornets finished up at 20-4.

"That scoreboard says it all. They hit the ball, and we didn't come up with the plays when we had the chance."

Senior lefty Kevin O'Leary, who was 9-0 with a 1.23 ERA coming in, took the loss, allowing eight earned runs on nine hits and four walks without a strikeout.

"He's not a strikeout pitcher, he's a contact pitcher," said Carey. "And like I said, Tyngsboro is a very good hitting team."

The Tigers pounded 20 hits, with each member of the starting lineup scoring at least one run.

A 1-0 lead after one became 6-0 after two.

North Reading's one opportunity to answer came in the bottom of the third.

Brian O'Neil broke the ice on Tyngsboro starter Nick Joyce (complete game 7-hitter) with a double | the Hornets' first hit of the game | to score Darren Hartwell, who had walked. O'Neil scored on a passed ball.

O'Leary followed with an single of his own, followed by a Kevin Singer walk, but with runners on second-and-third with one out, the Hornets couldn't deliver, leaving Tyngsboro the opportunity for a kill shot.

Seeded seventh, the 18-6 Tigers sent 11 men to the plate in the fatal fourth, pinging four hits with a pair of walks and hit-batter.

Singer, so brilliant in a semifinal complete-game shutout of Austin Prep, again dazzled in relief, working the final four innings without an earned run, but it was much too late. All four runs he allowed in the seventh were unearned.

It was the third straight trip to the North finals for the Hornets, who won the sectional in 2006. Carey's club graduates six starters but the southpaw Singer and the all-league center fielder Hartwell return.

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