Delbarton baseball added another chapter to its run through the Morris County Tournament on Friday night, defeating West Morris 5-1 at Montville High School to claim its sixth consecutive MCT championship.
West Morris took an early 1-0 lead in the top of the first after a ground ball error on Sal Garcia allowed a run to score. But Garcia quickly made amends in dramatic fashion. With runners threatening, Curt Friedrich induced a ground ball that led to a spectacular double play. Garcia tagged out the runner going to second, was flipped onto his back in the collision, sat up, and fired a strike to the plate to cut down a second runner and end the inning.
Delbarton answered immediately in the bottom half. Matt Tafuri reached on an error, Garcia blooped a double down the right field line, and Finn O'Loughlin delivered a sac fly to even the score. Garcia later came home on a passed ball during Miles Handy's at-bat to give the Green Wave a 2-1 lead.
Delbarton added on two more in the second. Danny Haggard doubled and scored on a throwing error after Ted Masino reached. Brandon Kim's bunt moved Masino to third, and another passed ball brought him home to make it 4-1.
Garcia led off the third with a thunderous inside-the-park home run to dead center field—estimated at over 450 feet—to give Delbarton a 5-1 cushion. That would be all the offense they needed.
Friedrich settled in after the first, going 3.2 innings and allowing just two hits, one unearned run, two walks, and striking out four. Ryan Holman entered in the fifth and dominated, striking out seven in 3.1 innings of one-hit relief to earn the win. He slammed the door in the top of the seventh to seal the victory.
Garcia was named tournament MVP after a monster game, going 3-for-3 with a double, home run, and single—just a triple shy of the cycle. Haggard, Lorenzo Maselli, O'Loughlin, and Holman also chipped in hits for the Green Wave.
Delbarton's MCT dominance continues, with titles in 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and now 2025, with no tournament held in 2020 due to COVID-19.
