By Andy Hutchison

WILTON–Staples baseball won a pair of three-run decisions on the road, extending its winning streak to seven and improving to 9-3 overall. The Wreckers qualified for the state playoffs with a 7-4 victory at Greenwich on Wednesday and continued their winning ways with a 6-3 doubling of host Wilton on Friday.

The Wilton game came down to the final frame. The Wreckers scored three in the top of the seventh inning to turn a tie game in their favor.

Chase Landgraf reached on an error and used his speed to score the go ahead run following a pair of stolen bases and another Wilton error. Mark Kelly added an RBI double and Bruce Schlegelmilch doubled home another run.

Kelly finished the game with a pair of doubles and three RBI and Vince Vega knocked in a run. Nolan Walters and Jules Cicero had doubles.

Schlegelmilch pitched 3 1/3 innings and allowed one earned run for the win, and Lukas Snow tossed 3 2/3 frames of two-run ball.

In the win over Greenwich, Kelly had a double and drove in four runs. The Hobart-bound third baseman / pitcher had quite a week, going 6-for-11 (.545 batting average) with ten RBIs, a homer and five doubles. The dual threat also earned a win and save on the mound. Kelly earned the win and homered to tie the game in the seventh inning of a 6-5 edging of Darien on Monday. He got the save and Charles Fitch picked up the win at Wilton.

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.}}