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Torrington Twisters upset Team USA 7-2
Torrington Twisters General Manager Kirk Fredriksson was instrumental in getting Team USA to play NECBL teams as part of their annual summer tour these past several years. It was fitting then that his team was the first to finally defeat an All-Star team of the country’s best collegiate players.
The likes of Mark Texiera, Huston Street and Rickie Weeks have beaten NECBL teams as they traveled each summer in a schedule of exhibition games across America and overseas, versus the world’s top baseball talent.
The Twisters won the game 7-2 before an announced crowd of 1. 816 at Fuessenich Park. Twister starting pitcher Joe Serafin (Vermont) held the USA team to two runs on seven hits in seven innings of work with eight strikeouts and a walk.
Andres Perez and Derek Shunk were the hitting stars for the Twisters. Perez got the night off to a good start for the Twisters, homering to left off pitcher Nick Schmidt leading off the first. Perez later added an RBI single and a run-scoring triple. Shunk was 3-for-4 with two runs scored. Matt Arburr (Pace) added a solo shot for the Twisters in the third, off of Bryan Augenstein (Florida). USA starter Nick Schmidt (Arkansas) absorbed the loss.
Adam Piechowski (CCSU), Noah Booth (Wichita State) and John Quine (San Francisco) combined for three scoreless innings out of the bullpen to wrap up the victory for the Twisters.
An ESPN crew was at the game filming for an espn.com webcast due to air on Monday, July 3rd. Team USA travels to Newport for a Red/Blue scrimmage and then will take on the Gulls on Saturday, July 1st.
Twisters' starter and winner Joe Serafin. North Carolina's Tim Federowicz and Oregon State's Darwin Barney emerge from the locker room wearing their brand new Team USA uniforms after arriving mid-game from the College World Series final. Coach Marty Deliveron congratulates Andres Perez after his lead-off home run. Team USA's Jemile Weeks (Miami) tosses his broken bat trying to beat out an infield grounder.
