NK Sweeps EG, Moves Into Baseball Finals

The North Kingstown Skippers earned a berth in the Division I Baseball finals yesterday, beating East Greenwich 7-4. They won the first semifinal game against the Avengers 8-0.

NK will meet either Bishop Hendriken or Johnston in the finals. Those teams play a deciding third game Sunday.

The Skippers dominated game one, with a strong performance by pitcher Dominic Grillo, a junior, who gave up only two hits. They got on the scoreboard with three runs the bottom of the second inning and didn't look back.

In game two on Saturday, again the Skippers jumped to an early 4-0 lead by the third inning. EG's David Hopkins doubled in the first for 2 runs but a 3-run homer by NK's Chris Hess in the sixth put the Skippers out of range for the Avengers. 

NK had 11 hits on Saturday, 9 on Friday. 

"We have been hitting all season," NK coach Kevin Gormley told the Providence Journal. NK finished the regular season with a 16-2 record. This will be the fifth visit to the finals in nine years for the Skippers.

You can read more about the Friday game on the Providence Journal's website here. Their boxscore can be found here. For a link to the Projo's story on Saturday's game, click here. Their boxscore can be found here.