Livingston won the North 1, Group 4 championship Monday over Montclair. They’ll visit Bridgewater-Raritan Wednesday for the Group 4 semifinals. (Source: @livingston.baseball on Instagram)
With its second sectional title in three years, the Livingston baseball team still is looking for more.
The Lancers (22-7-1) are the North 1, Group 4 champ that will face North 2 winner Bridgewater-Raritan (28-3) Wednesday, with a trip to the state Group 4 title game on the line, and they got here in dramatic fashion.
Their opponent was Montclair. And it’s tough enough to beat a team three times in one season, as we see time and time again, but this was a fourth meeting between the schools, and everyone expected a war.
It’s what they got, with the final shot being delivered by Massimo DePaola, a game-winning walk-off single in the seventh. And it was exciting, too, for the Livingston fans, their first sectional title game at home since 1976, when they beat Belleville – ironically, on a walkoff.
Yes, that’s the team coming into Bridgewater Wednesday for a Group 4 semifinal game you can hear live on Central Jersey Sports Radio with first pitch at 4 pm, and pregame set for 3:40 with Mike Pavlichko and Alec Crouthamel on the call. Click here to listen.
DePaola doesn’t have the highest average on the team, but head coach Mickey Ennis, now in his seventh season as the Lancers’ head coach, says he has been hot lately, getting timely hits. While DePaolo is a senior, as is Ethan Zse, Ennis says the rest are underclassmen. “We thought we were a year away,” the skipper says.
Guess they were closer than they thought.
Click below to hear Livingston head coach Mickey Ennis talk about the Lancers’ season and Wednesday’s Group 4 semifinal matchup against Bridgewater-Raritan:
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