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    Friday, May 03, 2024

    H.S. baseball: Waterford's Burrows makes it a masterpiece

    Waterford's Michael Burrows (5) pitches against Montville during the baseball game at Montville High School Tuesday, May 10, 2016. (Dana Jensen/The Day)
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    Killingly — Waterford High School's Michael Burrows struck out 21 of 22 batters that he faced as he pitched a no-hitter in an 11-0 win over Killingly in an Eastern Connecticut Conference Division II baseball game Monday.

    Burrows, a junior, struck out the first 19 batters. The 20th batter bunted, but was thrown out for the second out in the seventh inning. Killingly's Hunter Yaworski struck out next, but reached first when the third strike was in the dirt and got away. Burrows then struck out the last batter to finish off the masterpiece.

    "I've never seen anything like it,'' Waterford coach Art Peluso said. "He just pounded the strike zone. And he only threw 84 pitches, I think that's the most amazing thing. He was always ahead on the count. He just spotted his curveball. His stuff was electric.''

    Burrows (1-1) threw 83 pitches in four innings in his first start of the season, a 6-2 loss to East Lyme on April 3.

    "He had a tough outing against East Lyme,'' Peluso said. "And he said that would never happen again. His stuff today would have beaten anyone. He was kind of pitching uphill against East Lyme. This time you could see the difference; everything was downhill. They tried to bunt several times. You take that away and they maybe made contact five times.''

    Dylan Bosco was 3-for-4 with five RBI and Sonny Pezzello had two hits and drove in two runs for Waterford (3-1, 1-0). Killingly is 2-1, 0-1.

    In other games:

    • Ryan Kane pitched a one-hitter as East Lyme beat Norwich Free Academy 4-0 in an ECC Division I game. Kane (2-0) struck out 10 and walked three, allowing just a leadoff single to Jordan Lake in the fifth inning. Chris Malcom singled, doubled, scored twice and stole two bases and Kane doubled and scored twice for the Vikings (3-0, 1-0). NFA is 0-2, 0-2.

    • Monty Johnson had two hits, scored twice and drove in two runs as New London beat Fitch 5-2 in an ECC Division I game. Elijah Martinez had two hits for New London (1-2, 1-1) and Robert Otanez pitched the last four innings for the win. Fitch is 3-2, 1-1. 

    • Jordan Warecke pitched a seven-hitter and had two hits and drove in three runs as Old Lyme remained unbeaten with a 5-2 win over North Branford in a Shoreline Conference game. Warecke (2-0) struck out five with five walks. Griffin Powers had three hits and scored twice and Liam Holloway and Ron Losacano had two hits each for Old Lyme (4-0, 4-0).

    • Kevin Ferrer and Connor Woodworth had two hits and two RBI apiece, leading Stonington past Montville 8-3 in Division II. Adam Gibbs pitched a complete game for Stonington (2-0, 1-0). Seamus Barry and Ryan Champagne each had three hits for Montville (1-1, 0-1). 

    • Bowen Baker went 2-for-2 and Chris Caisse added an RBI single in Wheeler's 28-1 loss to Lyman Memorial in Division III. The Lions fell to 1-3, 0-2.

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