By Andy Hutchison
WESTPORT–Staples baseball saw its four-game winning streak come to an end in a 3-1 loss to visiting St. Joseph on Saturday. Mark Kelly had two of the Wreckers three hits, including a double, and drove in a run. Jules Cicero had the other Staples hit. Bruce Schlegelmilch allowed three runs on five hits in five innings and Cole Landgraf tossed two scoreless frames.
The Wreckers lost 8-3 to visiting Westhill on Monday. Staples ends the regular season at Ridgefield on Wednesday at 4:30 p.m.
Staples and Trumbull are both 11-3 and vying for the No. 2 seed in the FCIAC Tournament with the Wreckers holding the tiebreaker for its head-to-head win over the Eagles. Trumbull hosts Westhill Tuesday at 6.
Andy Hutchison
Andy Hutchison has been covering school sports — including Staples athletics — as well as news and feature stories, since the 1990s. He is the sports editor at the Newtown Bee. He writes for the Monroe Sun. He was director of communications and radio color commentator for the Bridgeport Sound Tigers (now Islanders) hockey team. He has won numerous writing awards, including regional and national first-place honors.
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