Springville-GI JV baseball continues its perfect season

The rain did not keep the junior varsity baseball team at Springville-Griffith Institute from continuing its perfect season when the boys visited Amherst on Monday, April 30. The two teams were able to complete only five innings, but the game lasted long enough to count in the standings, and Springville scored 17 runs.

Coach Rob Valenti called pitcher Wyatt Sibiga’s first five innings, in which S-GI gave up no runs and no hits and had no errors for a perfect game, the “highlight” of the match. Out of 15 batters that Sibiga faced, he struck out 12.

The JV team was on the road on Wednesday, May 2 against East Aurora. The last time these two teams played on April 16, Springville won its closest game of the season 3-2. With a combined 11 hits on the evening, Springville defeated the opponent 13-4.

Two eighth graders, Dan Dallas and Kyle Warner, combined to allow zero earned runs and totaled eight strikeouts between them. Warner had a multi-hit game from the plate, as well.

Kyle McCarthy had 3 hits on four at-bats and recorded a double and 2 RBIs, while Devin Pazzuti was 1-2 at the plate with 3 runs scored.

That win improved the club’s record to 12-0. Through those 12 games, Springville earned a team batting average of .321 to go with an earned run average of 1.45.

On May 3, the JV squad hit the field again, hosting Pioneer, a team Springville had defeated on opening night, April 2, by a score of 16-2. Springville improved to 2-0 against Pioneer by defeating the opponent 6-0 for the team’s fourth shutout of the season and third in four games.

Sibiga pitched the entire game, allowing 4 runs in the process, while walking one runner. He had 11 strikeouts by the time the game was over and was 2-4 when batting.

Brian Poppenberg was 2-4 from the plate, while Bobby Fisher hit both times he was at bat. Adam Wolfley hit once out of two at-bats and had 2 RBIs.

The team increased its perfect record to 13. Its next three games were at home, the first against Cheektowaga on Friday, May 4, followed by a rescheduled match against Maryvale on Tuesday, May 8, and a contest against Depew on May 9. The JV team’s next game was scheduled for Friday, May 11 in Maryvale at 4:30 p.m.