MAINE-ENDWELL – The Junior Hellcat baseball team has proved their worth, stomping Maine-Endwell into the loss with a five-run seventh inning for the win.

“Simply Incredible. These guys (Junior Hellcats) are amazing. I knew they (Maine-Endwell) would throw their best pitcher and they threw last years little league World Series hero Mike Mancini,” said Junior Hellcats head coach Nick McCullough. “We got to him (Mancini) early putting up three, but a team like that, you’re not going to win with only three.

Mancini looked the part, striking out nine Junior Hellcat batters, walking none and only allowing three hits for three runs in the first six innings.

A 3-3 first inning, saw a deadlocked game emerge as neither team would score over the next three innings of play.

Pitching for the Junior Hellcats and taking the win was Eli Rodriguez. Rodriguez proved effective against the high-powered M-E batters – striking out four, walking six and allowing just five hits in five innings.