The Border League Majors Division held its championship game last Saturday night in Monticello, with T&S Market of Hodgdon picking up the win 19-9 over Pioneer Broadband of Monticello.
T&S Market was led by Jacob Ritchie, who went 3-for-4, with a homerun and triple for five RBIs. Austin Winslow stroked two doubles to drive in two runs, while Silas Graham singled and doubled to score two runs and Will Belyea belted a single and double.
For Pioneer Broadband, Jordan Brown went 3-for-3 from the plate, with a double and a pair of singles for three RBIs. Ryder Graham finished the game 2-for-3, including two RBIs.
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CHAMPS — Winning the Border League Major championship was T&S Market, 19-9. Playing for the team are, from left, Craig Dow, Jacob Ritchie, Austin Winslow and Bryan Barton; back, coach Montie Graham, Matthew Crane, Will Belyea, Silas Graham, Brock Thompson, Trevor Schools, Cole Winslow and coach Chad Thompson. Absent from the photograph is Wayne Faulkner.
Winslow threw two and one-third innings, striking out six, while Graham went an inning and two-thirds with three strikeouts for T&S Market.
For Pioneer Broadband, Graham threw two and one-third innings with two strikeouts, while Wyatt Harvey finished the game.
To open the game, T&S Market’s Ritchie belted a three-run homerun to spark a 6-0 lead, but Pioneer Broadband’s Brown stroked a two-run single to cut into the lead.
In the second, T&S Market collected two more runs, while Pioneer Broadband drove in four runs, including Graham’s two-run single for a two-run T&S Market advantage.
T&S Market reached Pioneer Broadband for eight runs in the top of the third. Graham and Winslow each smacked a two-run double in the inning. Pioneer Broadband came back with only a run in the bottom of the frame on a Brown RBI-single.
Ritchie of T&S Market hit a two-run triple in the top of the fourth, as his team scored three more runs to Pioneer Broadband’s two.
