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From Page C1 room of a football team on a typ ical Monday morning. And Saturday night at Laconia’s Memorial Field, the Cavalier’s needed a last-second goal-line stand to stave off a Newmarket rally, lifting Hollis to its second Class M title in three years with a 4-2 victory. Hollis pitcher Jay Caine took a 4-0 lead into the seventh inning, but when the ball stopped bounc ing the fifth-ranked Cavs’ way and the Mules, ranked seventh, rallied for a pair of runs to draw within 4-2, things started to tighten up on the Hollis side of the field. And finally, on his 103rd pitch of the night, Caine fired a third sake past Newmarket leadoff hit ter John McQuade for the last out of the game. But not even that came easy, as catcher Karl Rock well dropped the ball and had to chase it down and quickly fire to first baseman Chad Zingales to end the game and start the cele bration. “This was like sending a hospital ward out onto the field,” said Hol lis coach Joel Mitchell, moments after being drenched with the obligatory Gatorade shower. The walking wounded for the Cavs, who finished with a 19-4 mark, included center fielder Brian Georges and left fielder Mike Ka zanjian — victims of a collision during Friday’s practice that broke Kazanjian’s nose and cut Georges’ lip so that it requires stitches ,DH Mike O’Connell, and substi tute Matt Croteau. But that couldn’t stop the Cavs from finishing a Cinderella run through the playoffs. Hollis jumped ahead in the bot tom of the third with Georges manufacturing a run on the base paths. The speedy leadoff man walked to open the frame, went to second when Mules catcher Jeff Hetrick threw a pickoff attempt over first baseman J.D. Willey’s head, then stole third. He came home on a Caine ground out to third in which third baseman Kevin Mincey didn’t look Georges far enough back to the base and Georges broke for the plate at the instant Mincey let the ball fly. “He gave me the lead, threw to first, and I took off,” Georges said. “I wanted to give Jay a run. If Jay gets ahead, he wins. You give him a lead and he’s a workhorse.” Hollis wouldn’t have had that opportunity to go ahead if it hadn’t been for a heads-up defensive play by second baseman Mike Dusthim er in the top of the inning. New market loaded the sacks on a McQuade single, a walk to Corey Mastin and an error by Hollis shortstop Brian Bizier that put He trick on. With one out, Matt Dawes hit a bouncer to Dusthimer at second. Hetrick, heading for second, ran right into the tag of Dustminer, who then threw on to first to complete the double play. “It's happened a couple times (this season). I go through the play every time in my head, it was hit right at me and he just kept run ning right at me. It surprised me. It felt good because it could have been a big inning,” Dusthimer said. The Cavs picked up a couple of insurance runs in the fifth as Caine came through. With two outs, Caine smoked a line drive about a foot away from clearing the fence in right-center field, scoring Bizier, who had walked, and Georges, who had reached on an error. “I was just looking for my pitch and I hit it hard. It was a fastball over the plate,” said Caine, who had the three RBI to go along with a complete-game six-hitter. He walked only one and struck out a pair. Hollis went up 4-0 in the sixth. Rockwell walked, advanced to sec ond on a passed ball, and then scored all the way from second when Mules pitcher Dawes’ pickoff attempt to first base to get O’Con nell (who had also walked) sailed down the right field line. All four runs off Newmarket’s ace left hander were unearned. Newmarket edged closer in the seventh before Caine settled down. “The last inning was just nerves,” Mitchell said, explaining Caine’s sudden wildness. And now, with another champi onship to celebrate, it’s a guar antee that the Hollis players will all be guilty of a little wildness over the next few days.
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Sun, Jun 12, 1994
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