The Utica Post 229 Baseball team will hold an all you can eat pasta dinner fundraiser on Thursday March 8th from 430 to 730 PM at Utica Post 229 American Legion located at 409 Herkimer Road.
The cost for each meal is $7 (child portions available). Meals consist of salad, bread, meatballs, all you can eat spaghetti, dessert, non-alcoholic beverage.
Tickets can be purchased at the door.
Tickets $15
Lunch buffet including steak and chicken, mashed potato,
salad, bread and non-alcoholic beverages
Tickets must be purchased by Jan 26th.
You can reserve a ticket by emailing up229@roadrunner.com.
Thomas DeBernardis, a 4 year member of the Utica Post 229 American Legion Baseball Team, was named the ‘Captain of the All Academic Team’, a national scholarship awarded to one player each season.
DeBernardis was selected to represent the Utica Post 229 American Legion Baseball team as its applicant for the Department of New York Scholarship. Tom was one of three winners of the Department scholarship and subsequently was selected to advance and represent the Department for the North East Regional Scholarship. Tom was awarded the North East Regional Scholarship and then advanced to the National level and was named the ‘Captain of the All Academic Team’.
Congratulations to Tom on his well deserved achievements. Tom will be attending Cazenovia College in the fall.
Congratulations to the Gary McConnell, Mike Obernesser, Justin Hall, and Dan Priore for being selected for the District 5 All Star team for being one of the best in the league at their respective positions.
The All Star game will be held Monday August 1st at 7PM at Delutis Field.
Friday July 22
Utica Post reached the District 5 championship game for the third consecutive year, with this year being a rematch of last season. Last season Utica Post fought through the losers bracket to defeat Whitestown twice.
This year followed the same path with Utica coming through the losers bracket with a walk off win against Roberts, a two run victory over Moran, a one run victory over Helmuth, and a walk off victory against Smith Post. After defeating Smith Post, Whitestown was waiting as the undefeated team, only this time Whitestown proved to be too much and defeated Utica 15-3 to capture the District Championship and move on to the NYS Championship Tournament in Binghamton.
Utica Post finished the season with a 21-11 overall record.
The scoring happened early and often for both teams with Utica jumping out to a 9-4 lead. In the 5th inning Helmuth scored 4 runs to pull within 1 run at 9-8. Neither team would score over the last 4 innings. Ben Rolewicz shut down the Utica offense and the combination of Sal Carollo and Nick Maldanado kept Helmuth off the board for the final 4 innings.
Utica got 3 hits and an RBI from Mike Obernesser. Justin Hall added a hit and 2 RBI while Matt Scotellaro added 2 hits and an RBI. Ben Rolewicz had 2 hits and an RBI for Helmuth and Kinnon Nolan Finkel had a hit and 2 RBI.
Utica advances to play Smith Post Friday at 430 at Delutis Field. The winner of that game will then play Whitestown at 8PM. Should Whitestown lose that game, the two teams will play for the championship on Saturday at 6PM.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||
| Helmuth | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 10 | 1 | ||
| Utica | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 13 | 0 |
WP – Ismael Morelles
LP – MIke Wilson
Due to the extreme heat today the District 5 Championship Tournament schedule has been modified to the following:
Thursday July 21
Friday July 22
Saturday July 23
Game 15: Winner Game 14 vs. Whitestown @ 6pm (if necessary)
Utica Post outlasted Moran Sylvan Beach in a slugfest that saw the teams combine for 31 hits and 19 runs. In an elimination game that pitted the top two seeds against each other, Utica got 7 solid innings from starter Mike Lackey who allowed only 2 earned runs. The star of the day for Utica was Nick Maldanado who had 4 hits and an RBI and came in the game with the bases loaded and a 1 run lead in the 8th inning to earn the save. Utica Post also got offensive help from Jordan Treen who added 2 hits and 2 RBI and Mike Obernesser had 3 hits and an RBI. Moran got 3 hits from Jake O’Rouke and 2 hits and 3 RBI from Jake Clark.
The remaining tournament schedule is as follows:
Thursday July 21st
Friday July 22nd
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||
| Utica | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 17 | 2 | ||
| Moran | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 14 | 2 |
WP – Mike Lackey
LP – Mike House
The District 5 playoffs are underway. All games will be played at Delutis Field.
Wednesday July 20th
Thursday July 21st
Friday July 22nd
July 23rd & July 24th will be used as Rain Dates if necessary.
Utica Post scored in the bottom of the 9th inning on a pinch hit single by Ismael Morelles to win in walk off fashion. Mike Obernesser led off the inning with a double and scored the winning run. Tom DeBernardis scattered 7 hits and stuck out 7 while going the distance for the victory on the mound. Gary McConnell had 2 hits and Jordan Treen had 2 hits and 2 RBI. Chas Parsons was the tough luck loser as he went the distance, allowing 7 hits and adding 7 strike outs. Chas also had 2 hits and an RBI.
Utica will move on to play tomorrow at 430 against the loser of the game between Whitestown and Moran Sylvan Beach.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||
| Roberts | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 3 | ||
| Utica | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 2 |
WP – Tom DeBernardis
LP – Chas Parsons
