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Bloomfield Bombers Win 1 and Lose 2 in Past Weekend Action

The Bloomfield Bombers 13 and under Cerbo League Baseball team went 1-2 in their first three games.      

On Wednesday Apr. 2, opening night for the Bombers, they were away in Bloomingdale, NJ and played the North Jersey Extreme. Manny Corporan started the game as the pitcher and allowed one hit in four innings. Coach Dan McDowall replaced Corporan when he fatigued.  The Bombers could not carry offensive momentum, despite the Extreme letting up 12 walks.  The Bombers lost, 10-9, when a bases-loaded walk forced in the winning run in the bottom of the seventh inning.    

In the second game of the season, Bloomfield played the Northern Valley Ravens on a beautiful Saturday afternoon in Closter. NJ. Left-handed pitcher Eddie Abplanalp started. The two teams exchanged quick innings until the Bombers erupted in the bottom of the fourth.  Abplanalp and Sean Demo both hit singles and Craig Dittrich brought them in with his 2-RBI double.  Demo and Dittrich kept their bats hot: both hitting 2 singles. Corporan, one of three captains, also hit a single bringing in a run in the bottom of the sixth for an insurance run.  Corporan also closed the game as the Bombers took the W home with an 8-3 victory.       

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On Sunday, the Hit n’ Run Outlaws visited Wrights Field in Bloomfield in pursuit of a win. The Outlaws got off to a hot start hitting three RBI doubles and a single.   After surrendering those hits, Dylan Piacenza the starting pitcher, led off with a double but the Bombers followed with two groundouts and a strikeout.  

Bloomfield came back and tied the game in the bottom of the fifth. So it was 6-6 in the top of the sixth when the Outlaws scored two more runs and the Bombers couldn’t answer as they suffered their second defeat by the score of 8-6.

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