Westfield Blue loses, eats Ice Cream

Rowan went with his trusty mint Oreo chip but others like OB, Roth & Lanky chose a strange blue concoction called “Smurf” at Scoops tonight after the team lost to Scotch Plains in the Babe Ruth tournament at nearby Booth Field.

Despite an excellent effort from starting pitcher Justin Lin, our dairy devouring diamond devils displayed dozens of deft defensive don’ts, allowing Scotch Plains to rack up 8 runs in just the first inning. After Lin faced his 13th batter of the inning, Oberman was brought in for relief. WB was able to limit Scotch Plains to just 1 more run through the 3rd inning but was only able to rack up 4 runs itself making the score 9-4 after 3. Owen Colwell came in to pitch in the 4th and Owen Murray closed out the 6th but by then the Scotch Plains bats were on fire and the WB bats were as cold as that Smurf colored ice cream.

The loss dashed hopes of an all Westfield Championship game; the two Westfield teams will now meet in the semi-finals.