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Saturday, August 23
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Norwalk, Conn., 7, Tallahassee, Fla., 3. Norwalk wins championship.
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Adams Field
One Merrymount Parkway
Quincy, MA 02170
Phone: 617-984-6612, 617-376-1390
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Boston Marriott Quincy
1000 Marriott Drive
Quincy, MA 02169
Phone: (617) 472-1000
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Mon, 08/18/2008 - 8:19pm — The Patriot Ledger
Kevin Daniele gets congratulations from his Norwalk, Conn., teammates after hitting a home run in the bottom of the first inning against Cambridge on Monday at the Babe Ruth 14-year-old World Series at Adams Field in Quincy. Lisa Bul photo/The Patriot Ledger
Connecticut team can enjoy itself now
Kevin Daniele gets congratulations from his Norwalk, Conn., teammates after hitting a home run in the bottom of the first inning against Cambridge on Monday at the Babe Ruth 14-year-old World Series at Adams Field in Quincy. Lisa Bul photo/The Patriot Ledger
By MIKE LOFTUS
The Patriot Ledger
QUINCY – It wasn’t that the New England region Babe Ruth champions didn’t want to spend a day off in and around the host city. The team from Norwalk, Conn., would just like to have been in a better mood.
It’ll be easier for Norwalk to enjoy the area, now that the long wait for its first win in the Babe Ruth 14-year-old World Series is over. After falling in its opener on Saturday to Youngstown, Ohio, Norwalk came from behind Monday night at Adams field to defeat Eastern Massachusetts champion Cambridge, 7-6.
“There’s a lot of relief,” said Norwalk manager Marc Kohler. “You don’t want to go home 0-4. I think this win will relax the kids a lot more.”
Third baseman Kevin Daniele seemed pretty relaxed all night. Though his team was in an 0-2 hole before it even came to bat, he evened things with a two-run homer to left in the bottom of the first inning. Norwalk was on the wrong end of a 6-5 score entering the bottom of the sixth, but after Alex Petridis scored Bryan Daniello (who had tripled) to make it 6-6, then moved to second on a wild pitch, Daniele tagged a single to right that delivered the winning run.
“I enjoy those situations,” Daniele said. “I like coming through. It had been a little frustrating, because I got pitched around after my first at-bat, but I got a good pitch (in the sixth) and was able to put it in play.”
Cambridge, which snapped a 5-5 tie on Kevin Luciano’s RBI single in the top of the fourth, fell to 0-3 in pool play. It tries to break through Tuesday night against the Pacific Northwest champions from Skagit Valley, Wash.; Norwalk had a 2:30 date Tuesday with 2-0 Nederland, Texas, the Southwest region representative.
Mike Loftus may be reached at mloftus@ledger.com.
