By MICHAEL LETENDRE STAFF WRITER PLAINVILLE – After getting shutout by West Hartford in all three of its Amercian Legion baseball games last week, the squad from Plainville was looking for a little payback. And, unfortunately, for Newington, Post 33 took out more than a little frustration out on the team. Newington – who entered Zone 7 play at 3-0 – dropped three straight to Plainville and the last contest, a 1-0 defeat to Post 33 from Alumni Field in Plainville on Monday, June 23, proved to be the most difficult to absorb of them all. Plainville got the series sweep of Newington to even their Zone 7 record at 3-3 on the young season off a complete game shutout by Matt Sauvron. Plainville took advantage of a critical miscue by Newington (3-3) to notch the only run of the game. Sauvron didn’t overpower Newington batters but he didn’t have to. He struck out one and walked only one in an outstanding seven inning affair. Offensively, Post 33 was limited to only three hits but Plainville did just enough to snare that one, winning run. Tyler Favreau went 1-for-2 with a run scored while Sauvron added a hit in the [...]
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