Sparta, NJ 8/9-Year-Old All-Stars Win Little League District 20 Championship

CoachYouthSports.com Congratulates the Sparta, NJ 8/9-year-old All-Star team for winning the Little League District 20 Championship.

(PRWEB) August 28, 2006 -- CoachYouthSports.com Congratulates the Sparta, NJ 8/9-year-old All-Star team for winning the Little League District 20 Championship.

The Sparta 8/9 Little League All-Stars defeated Jefferson 18-6 winning the District 20 Tournament Championship.

Sparta started the game with three runs in the top of the first, added six in the second inning and finally, erupted for nine runs in the fourth to put the game out of reach.

The Spartans had 14 hits including three by Jack Nelson, and two each by Anthony Longo, Mike DiMatteo, Jake Davis, Clay Forbes and Jimmy Cartier, Davis had a bases clearing triple. Mike DiMatteo also had a triple.

Anthony Argula was the winning pitcher striking out seven Jefferson batters in four innings.

Sparta was 5-1 in pool play, defeating Vernon American (10-0), Blairstown (18-4), Hobb Engler (7-3), Hopatcong (14-3) and Lackawanna (17-4). They avenged their only loss, to Frankford/Branchville, by defeating the same pitchers that had earlier shut them out by a score of 10-3 in the first round of the tournament.

The team was made up of nine-year-olds from the Sparta Little League, Anthony Argula, Gordy Bonker, Jimmy Cartier, Grant Cummings, Jake Davis, Tyler Dalzell, Mike DiMatteo, Clay Forbes, Anthony Longo, Jack Nelson, Jack Sember, and Mike Viggiano.

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