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Youth Sports Roundup: Yanks Best Sawx for A-Division Baseball Crown; Strong Showing from U14 Girls Travel Soccer Team

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NC Baseball A Division Championship: Yankees 7, Red Sox 6

In an epic extra-inning affair, the Russell Speeder’s Car Wash Yankees beat the Karl Chevrolet Red Sox in 8 innings to capture the A Division championship. Joe Ho led off the bottom of the 8th with a walk and advanced on a walk by Jacob Kozar. He scored on a clutch single to center by Brendan Bailey, one of Bailey’s game-leading three hits, to complete the comeback from 6-1. Earlier, the Yankees needed two in the bottom of the 6th to extend the game and Theo Doehla’s RBI single with two outs saved the day. Jake Valente added a two-run RBI single in the fourth.

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Youth Soccer Roundup: Big Red Wrecking Ball Smashes Monroe, 6-2

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New Canaan FC U9G Red Dominate Monroe Panthers 6-2 (this write-up from Jon Gizzie)

Mother’s Day dawned dreary and damp, leaving many a mother fretting about field conditions and frizzy hair. Luckily, Mother Nature got the message loud and clear as some splashes of sun finally broke through the clouds at kickoff. The New Canaan FC U9 Girls Red team took to the pitch with barely contained excitement but tempered with a touch of concern upon reflection of earlier bouts with the strong Monroe team. True to form, the Panthers scored within the first minute of play spawning fits of nervous chatter among the assembled matriarchal glitterati of the Big Red Wrecking Ball. Undaunted, the NC Red girls quickly jumped back on the offensive and evened the score in the 4th minute as Sydney Patten blasted a shot off the far left post on a beautiful cross from Madeline “Maddie” Tully.