The East Hampton Little League’s 10-U all-star baseball team, apparently the fourth in local annals to advance to sectional competition, was to have played a must-win game Monday evening at Riverhead’s Stotzky Park, having lost 6-1 on Sunday to St. James after having beaten Plainview 7-1 the day before.
The 10-U team, managed by Sean Kinney, won the district championship on July 8, defeating Moriches Bay 7-5, with, said Kinney, key contributions from Ryder Abran, who closed out the big win, Evan Sullivan, Ethan Sturm, Mathias Duran, Caiden Kinney, Colin Caulfield, and Sawyer Prado.
The team advanced to the district final by way of a 12-11 walk-off win here over North Shore on July 5. Luca Cereda, Colin Stone, Prado, and Abran all pitched in that contest. In the bottom of the sixth inning, Wyatt Wirth wound up on second base after hitting a ball down the third-base line, stole third, and then came home with the winning run on Luke Cinelli’s walk-off hit. Cereda’s home run in his first at-bat accounted for East Hampton’s sole run in Sunday’s loss.
East Hampton Little League all-star baseball teams won District 36 championships in 1991 and in 2018, the latter titlist, comprising 9 and 10-year-olds, having on it a half-dozen players — Victoreddy Aguero, Trevor Meehan, Finn O’Rourke, and Livs Kuplins among them — who vied in the past season for a Suffolk County high school championship.
