March 29, 2024

Townie Baseball Stuns RI's Best Team - S. Kingstown, 2-0

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EP Defeats Top Ranked SK Late Last Week:
East Providence High has been battling to make the post-season playoffs this season and made a statement with a 2-0 upset win over 12 win South Kingstown. The Rebels of SK had just one loss and were sitting all alone at the top of Division I. Two Townie pitchers combined for the impressive 2-0 shutout win. Seth Daly started the game for East Providence and pitched six and a third innings, giving up no runs, six hits, and struck out five.

Nate Silveira earned the win for East Providence. He went two-thirds of an inning, getting the last two outs to earn the save for the Townies. Silveira induced a double-play to finish off the game.

East Providence didn't take the lead until later in the game. After 4 1/2 scoreless innings, EP put together a two-run scoring drive with a Seth Daly line-drive single to left, a passed ball and sacrifice leading to the Townie 2-0 lead.

The Townies held off SK while playing great defense (no errors) for the upset win. EP's Cole Poissant fielded five plays without an error. South Kingstown managed 6 hits off Townie pitching while the Townies continue to struggle at the plate with only 2 hits for the game.

"We have played great defense all season and have had good pitching but we aren't hitting the way I'd like," said East Providence coach Bobby Rodericks. "It was a good win to defeat the state's top team right now. SK is very good and our guys played well," added the Townie coach.

After the South Kingstown win, the Townies went on to defeat North Providence 10-1 for the team's 7th win.

(Thanks to stats as provided by the EP coach via Narrative Science and GameChanger Media. Photo credits: Paul Tumidajski.)

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