Cheshire Legion Gains Revenge, Sweeps Trumbull

One day after losing a game on a controversial forfeit, while leading 8-2 in the eighth inning, the Cheshire American Legion baseball team gained some revenge by sweeping Trumbull in a doubleheader on Thursday to win the best-of-three series and advance to the super regional tournament this weekend.

Cheshire, the Zone III champions, was forced to forfeit the first game of the series on Wednesday after the Trumbull coaches alerted umpires that Post 92 used an ineligible player that participated in the Quinnipiac Summer Showcase earlier in the day.

Cheshire was fired up to get back on the field on Thursday and rallied to beat Trumbull 10-4 in the opener and then cruised to a 12-2 victory in Game 3 to win the series and advance in the postseason. Cheshire will play in the super regionals Saturday at Cubeta Stadium in Stamford.

John Koski, who picked up the win in Game 3 and had six RBIs in Game 2, told Henry Chisholm of GameTimeCT.com/New Haven Register that Cheshire wanted revenge after Wednesday's forfeit.

"(After) what happened yesterday, there was no reason why we weren't fired up about this," he told Chisholm. "We all wanted it, we all wanted it so bad. It was a good day."

Trumbull coach Brett Conner, who is also the pitching coach at Quinnipiac wouldn't comment on the forfeit but told Chisholm that he didn't think the forfeit impacted play Thursday and there were no hard feelings toward Cheshire.

"There’s no animosity," he told Chisholm. "They were the better team. They won, they deserved to move on."

Read the full story here.