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Lewes Little League Majors play lights out with Woodbridge 6-3

Lewes catcher Jake Gelof looks to throw back to second after getting the throw from Tellis Jones in center field and tagging out a Woodbridge runner, ending the Woodbridge rally. BY DAN COOK
Dan Cook
July 9, 2013
Lewes starting pitcher Luke Johnson delivers to the plate in the 6-3 win over Woodbridge in the opening round of Little League Majors Division play. BY DAN COOK
Lewes shortstop Jake Gelof snags a hit and tags second to end a Woodbridge at bat. BY DAN COOK
Lewes base runner Grant Evans slides safely into home during the 6-3 win over Woodbridge. BY DAN COOK
Lewes major league's Timmy Vitella shows his own approval for his double in the fifth inning. BY DAN COOK
Lewes center fielder Tellis Jones guns out a Woodbridge runner at home ending the home team's rally. BY DAN COOK
James Fleegle runs to first after a hit. BY DAN COOK
Lewes relief pitcher Timmy Vitella delivers to the plate in the 6-3 win over Woodbridge. BY DAN COOK
Lewes' Mason Fluharty runs to first after a base hit. BY DAN COOK
Lewes second baseman James Fleegle puts the tag on a Woodbridge base runner. BY DAN COOK
Lewes shortstop Jake Gelof gets a hit. BY DAN COOK

Lewes Little League Majors All-Stars opened the playoffs with a tough Woodbridge squad at Laurel Little League complex July 6.

After trailing 1-0, first baseman Tanner Virden, who went 2-for-2, started off a two-out rally with a single. Then the lights went out – literally. The game was halted in the fourth with Lewes batting. After a nearly 40-minute delay, the game was moved to a nearby field, where the Lewes squad turned on the lights with four more runs, going up 5-1.

Woodbridge battled back until Lewes center fielder Tellis Jones scooped up a hit and fired his cannon arm to catcher Jake Gelof to put the tag on a Woodbridge runner, ending the comeback at 6-3 in favor of Lewes. Jones, Timmy Vitella and Luke Johnson each slugged a double for Lewes. Very solid pitching performances were turned in by Johnson and Vitella.

The win set the Lewes team up for a game versus Laurel July 8.

In an earlier game July 6, the Rehoboth All-Stars dropped a 5-4 heartbreaker to the hometown Laurel team. Luke Smailer pitched three innings, giving up just three runs while putting two in the book by the K. Mason Dobek pitched in relief, allowing two runs while striking out two. Curtis Purnell and Smailer both went 2-for-3 and Matthew Berdini went yard for the Rehoboth squad.

Rehoboth moved to the bottom bracket and were eliminated by Georgetown 20-14 July 7.

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Dan has worked for the Cape Gazette for more than 30 years as a photographer and reporter, covering high school sports and happenings around eastern Sussex County. He won a photography award from the National Newspaper Association, and numerous awards from the Maryland, Delaware, D.C. Press Association. A Delaware native, Dan graduated from Cape in 1972 and returned as a teacher and coach in the 1980s. He retired from the classroom in 2016. He was inducted into Cape High’s Legends Stadium in 2016. In his spare time, Dan enjoys spending time with his wife, two sons, grandchildren and dogs. 

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