Colonia’s Colin Kroner. The senior will be playing baseball for Seton Hall next season. (Photo: Mike Pavlichko)
The sign things just weren’t going right for the Colonia baseball team on Tuesday afternoon came in the third inning. Dom Long hit a ground ball toward second when a collision between the umpire and a fielder allowed the grounder to make it to the outfield, scoring two runs.
What should have been a 1-0 game turned into a 3-0 game that ended up as a 4-0 win for the Middlesex Blue Jays, the first place team in the GMC White Division.
Sometimes, the breaks just don’t go your way.
But the great thing about baseball is there’s another game a day or two away. So for fifth-ranked Colonia, they’ll get back on the horse against No. 2 Middlesex Thursday afternoon on the road for a 4 pm game you can hear on Central Jersey Sports Radio. Pregame starts at 3:45 with Mike Pavlichko and Alec Crouthamel on the call.
The Patriots got off to a red-hot 6-0 start, but as head coach mike Scialfo explains it, the schedule got a bit more challenging, and some of their arms got a little tired. Still, all things considered, in a grueling division, they’ve held court. They’re still 9-4 (and 9-4 in the White), second place in the division behind the Blue Jays, who are 14-1 overall, 12-1 in the White.
Three-sport athlete Dylan Chiera leds the offense, hitting .455 with ten runs batted in, and he’s just six-hits shy of the century mark for his career. He was also the quarterback of the football team this year, where the team went to the North 2, Group 4 finals against Phillipsburg. And he plays point guard for the Colonia basketball team, which went all the way to the state finals for the first time ever, losing in the Group 3 title game to Ocean City.
Despite the eventual tired arms, the pitching has also been very good, with a team 2.01 ERA, and senior Tyler Chiola expected to get the ball Thursday afternoon. The Patriots No. 2 starter behind Seton Hall-bound Colin Kroner, he’s 3-0 with a 2.13 ERA, and a 3-to-1 strikeout-to-walk ratio.
Click below to hear Central Jersey Sports Radio’s Mike Pavlichko talk with Colonia head coach Mike Scialfo:
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