Frederick Hustlers (11U)

The 9U Hustlers participated in the Memorial Day “Walk ThePlank” Tournament this past weekend. The young Hustlers were put in the 10U Silver bracket for the tournament. It did not start well for the Hustlers. The Hustlers opened up with Smithsburg Elite. The Hustlers took a 4-2 lead into the third inning, when the doors fell off, with Smithsburg capitalizing on walks, errors and timely hitting to put up 15 runs in the 3rd inning. The Hustlers dropped a 24-6 decision. Tegan Kuhns, Brett Lucas, Mason Miller, and Camren Baker all worked on the mound for the Hustlers. The Hustlers only had 5 hits, with Baker, Ryan Jones, who tripled, Miller, Austin Perando, and Jaden Moore, who doubled each having one. The second game on Saturday the Hustlers played the Great Falls Nationals from Virginia. Three Hustler Pitchers limited the team from Virginia to 5 hits, and the Hustlers won the game by a score of 7-4. Ryan Jones, Landon Johnson, and Tegan Kuhns all worked on the mound and pitched very well. The Hustlers only managed 5 hits, with Jones having 3 of them. Mason Miller and Brett Lucas each had one hit. The 9U Hustlers started Sunday as the 16th seed out of 26 teams. The Hustlers first game was a tilt with the Smithsburg Spartans. The Hustlers jumped out to a 4-0 lead after 3 innings, and held on to win a tight 6-5 game. Ryan Jones, Jaden Moore, Connor Allen, and Tegan Kuhns held the Spartans to 4 hits. The game got tight when the Hustler defense got erratic in the 5th inning, but the Hustlers held on to win the 1 run game. Cody Rinehart had two hits including a 2 run Home Run to lead the Hustlers. Camren Baker tripled, while Jones, Mason Miller, and Austin Perando each had 1 hit. The next game had the Hustlers playing the Olney All-Stars. This was a great game, with very good pitching and good defense by both teams. The Hustlers committed 4 errors in the game, and this led to 3 unearned runs, and Olney held on to beat the Hustlers 3-2. Ryan Jones, Brett Lucas, and Landon Johnson each pitched for the Hustlers, and all three pitched very well. Again the Hustler bats were silent, with only two hits in the game. Camren Baker and Ryan Jones each had the one hit. The Olney team would make it the championship game on Monday, but lost to the Bulldog Baseball Club. The Young Hustlers battled very well with 10U teams in this tournament.

The Hustlers took on one of the hottest CRAB League teams on Wednesday night in Howard County and came away with a 12-1 win over the HCYP Raiders. Nick DeLisi, Marshall Mott and Tyler Prather shared the pitching duties and all three competed. DeLisi worked three scoreless to open the game and only gave up two hits. Mott came in for innings four and five and only surrendered one run on two hits. Prather slammed the door with a scoreless sixth and seventh and was aided by an impressive 6-4-3 double play. JT Sachar led the Hustlers with four hits and three runs. Joe Pippin, Ryan Bennett and Dustin Isanogle each had two hits; one of Bennett’s was a double. Matt Cunningham had a double to go along with two SAC flies and four RBIs. DeLisi, Prather and Mott each had a hit.

The Hustlers are back in action at home on Thursday, May 28 against the Olney Pirates.

Rawlings Stars made the trip to Yellow Springs on Tuesday night.  Rawlings jumped out to a 4-1 lead going into the bottom of the 3^rd, when the Hustlers started chipping away.  The Hustlers scored two in the 3^rd, one in the 4^th, and exploded for nine runs in the 5^th inning and won the game 13-4.  Tegan Kuhns, Landon Johnson, Brett Lucas, Mason Miller, and Jaden Moore all pitched for the Hustlers.  Kuhns pitched two shutout innings, and Lucas, Miller, and Moore each pitched one shutout inning.  Mason Miller had 3 hits for the Hustlers, while Ryan Jones and Connor Allen each had two hits.  Kuhns, Lucas, Austin Perando, Moore, and Sam Sacco each had one hit.  Perando doubled.  The Hustlers defense played error free baseball the entire game.

The 12U Hustlers put together a strong weekend in defeating the Wyckoff Raiders (NJ) 12-2, Seneca War Eagles (NJ) 12-4, Elite Baseball (PA) 11-1, Loudoun South Eagles (PA) 19-5, and the Mid-State Mavericks (PA) 9-5 before losing to the South Jersey Sand Sharks 16-1 in the Championship game at the 6th Annual CHOCOLATETOWN Classic in Hershey, PA over the weekend.