Wethersfield Rolls to First State Baseball Championship

MIDDLETOWN, CT — For more than three centuries, arguments have taken place about whether Wethersfield or Windsor is Connecticut's oldest town. When the towns' two high schools met on the diamond at Palmer Field Friday night in the Class L championship game, there was never a doubt about the outcome.

Wethersfield took advantage of some power hitting and capitalized on some early Windsor mistakes to roll to a 16-4 victory, earning the Eagles their first state baseball title.

Jimmy Sullivan was an unstoppable force at the top of the Wethersfield lineup, crushing a pair of long home runs and two triples, knocking in six runs and accumulating 15 total bases.

He opened the game by belting a one-hopper off the 380 sign in left-center field for a triple off Windsor starting pitcher Jeremy Nunes. Mark Bagdasarian followed with a run-scoring single just inside the third base bag, giving the Eagles a lead they would never relinquish.

Sullivan clubbed a three-run homer over the right field bleachers in the second inning, and Derek Tenney's RBI double gave the Eagles a 5-0 lead.

Windsor battled back to within 5-3 in the bottom of the second on a run-scoring triple by Issac Rosario, a run-scoring single by Marcos Massa and a sacrifice fly by Jarret Tambling, but a pair of bases loaded walks pushed across two more runs for the Eagles in the third.

A dropped popup which would have ended the Wethersfield fourth proved costly to the Warriors, as Bagdasarian took advantage of the reprieve by smacking a two-run single, followed by a two-run home run by Tyler Fote.

Sullivan smashed his second home run of the evening with a man on in the sixth, then the Eagles salted he championship away with three more runs in the seventh, courtesy of a two-run triple by Ryan Skelly and an RBI triple by Sullivan.

Windsor closed the scoring in its half of the seventh on an RBI single by Nunes.

Sullivan and Hunter Dombal each scored four runs for Wethersfield, with Skelly crossing the plate three times. Bagdasarian, Tenney and Dombal each collected two hits.

Tim Blaisdell was the winning pitcher, hurling five innings. Luis Perez tossed the final two innings for the champions.

Photo and video credits: Tim Jensen

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