EP Townies JV Baseball Wins Division I State Championship

Townies Beat Rival LaSalle 7-4 for State Championship

The East Providence High School Junior Varsity baseball team captured the Division 1 State Championship today, June 14th, with a solid 7-4 win over school rival LaSalle Academy. Ben Sears worked 6 strong innings for the Townies allowing just 2 earned runs, and striking out 5 Ram batters. "The team played well and it was a team goal from the beginning to make the season mean something and win the state title, and that's what we did," said Head JV Coach, Chris Kennedy.

The Townies "mashed" 17 hits against Ram pitching today led by Deyshawn Tengbeh, 4 for 5 with 2 RBI while Colby Paiva, Nick Lemire, Clayton Cook, and Nick Mackevich all had 2 hits each in the win.

"It was a great team effort with great defense highlighted by that amazing diving catch by Deyshawn Tengbeh," said a pleased Coach Kennedy after the game. While the game was still close in the sixth inning, the EP crowd erupted on an amazing diving catch by Tengbeh on a hard line drive up the middle. "I am so proud of our resilience and the effort the team put forth tonight and throughout the entire season. This team showed its talent, heart and team pride all season long," added Kennedy.

Smiling on the sidelines was varsity Head Coach Bobby Rodericks, who, with Chris Kennedy, is no doubt thinking of next season's varsity campaign. "Chris and the kids did an amazing job," said Rodericks. "Love it."