PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — The Union 122 13-15 year-old baseball team, representing the communities of Woodland, New Sweden and Stockholm, captured bragging rights in Aroostook County by winning the Northern Maine Community Recreation Association tournament last week.
Union 122 picked up an 8-2 victory over Cushman’s of Presque Isle in last Wednesday’s title game played at Pine Street Field.
Austin Findlen pitched a complete game for the winners, chalking up 14 strikeouts in six innings of work.
Offensively, the Union squad put four runs on the board in the opening inning and added two in the second and single runs in the third and fifth innings.
Noah Hixon was a home run shy of the cycle as he had a single, a double and a triple. He also drove in a pair of runs. Wyatt Taggett tripled and singled and drew a walk.
Ghent Durepo, Cameron Doody, Kenneth Thompson, Ryan Ehlermann and Matt McCormack all reached base twice.
For the Cushman’s team, Jonah Hudson threw four innings with seven strikeouts, but surrendered seven runs and took the loss. Andrew Hewitt came on in for relief in the fifth.
Cushman’s scored its first run in the second inning on a Connor Rideout RBI and Hewitt drove in Hudson for the team’s other run in the fifth. Bridges, Rideout, Hudson and Hewitt all reached base twice for Cushman’s.
Union 122 went 6-4 during the regular season while competing in the northern division. They beat AFSL of Caribou to reach the County semifinals and then topped the other Presque Isle team, Rod Brewer Design, 11-1, to make it to the championship round. Chance Bragan drove in Ricky Goupille for the lone run for RBD.
