Watchung Hills junior Rob Centamore pitches against Somerville in a Skyland Conference Raritan Division game at Torpey Athletic Complex on April 15, 2025. (Photo: Mike Pavlichko)
Hot hitting and good pitching will win you a lot of ballgames. In 2025, it has Watchung Hills off to a 5-1 start.
That’s the best start for the Warriors since they began the 2021 campaign 6-0, thanks to a 9-0 win over Somerville Tuesday afternoon at the Torpey Athetic Complex in Bridgewater, as heard on Central Jersey Sports Radio.
Watchung Hills had a 4-0 lead after three innings of play. Ethan Clayton drove in the first run of the game with a single, scoring Max Eder, who led off the inning with a double.
In the third, Stef DeGeronimo led off with a double. Jake Kierstead knocked him in with a single, then Jacob Jaconski plated him with a double. After Eder struck out, Ethan Byrd’s double scored Jaconski to make it 4-0.
After that, Somerville starter Ryan Ciesla settled in, and retired the next six batters – including a 1-2-3 fourth – into the fifth.
The Warriors got another run in the sixth, on a sac fly to left by DeGeronimo, scoring Chris Dorsi, who led off the inning with an infield hit.
They got four more insurance runs in the seventh, including a two-RBI single by Landon Pudlak, and a two-RBI double by DiGeronimo.
All the while, junior starting pitcher Rob Centamore was brilliant. He scattered four hits through 5 1/3 scoreless innings, striking out nine and walking just one, to improve to 3-0 on the season.
Ciesla took the loss for Somerville, his first of the season to fall to 2-1.
Six players had runs batted in for Watchung Hills, which continues its hot hitting. They were batting .331 coming into the game, and knocked out a season-best 15 hits.
Click below for postgame reaction from Watchung Hills junior starter Ryan Centamore and head coach Joseph Tremarco, presented by Sportsplex at Metuchen:
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