NF Baseball Falls To Newtown

On Saturday May 15, the New Fairfield Rebels took on the Newtown Nighthawks in an SWC battle. Robert Moretti was on the mound for the Rebs. Through the first 5 innings the Rebels were cruising taking a 4-1 lead into the top of the 5th. In those innings the Rebels had atleast 2 baserunners on every inning. In the 5th though they hit a wall. Moretti got into a bases loaded jam and was replaced by P.J. Jamison with no outs in the top half of the inning. Then the Nighthawk bats woke up and scored 7 runs taking an 8-4 lead into the bottom half of the seventh. The Rebels would add one more and came up short 8-5. Frank Guardi lead the Rebels by goin 2-4 with 2 doubles and 2 RBI's and Joey Silva went 0-1 with 3 BB's and 2 runs. The Rebels pick up thier season again on Monday when they play the Brookfield Bobcats at 7:00 at Duchess Stadium for the Rebels Senior Night.