Make it ten games in which Newtown High School’s baseball team has surrendered two or less runs. The Nighthawks followed up a 5-1 win over Brookfield on May 1 by duplicating the outcome in a 5-1 win at Stratford two days later. After a 3-2 loss at Maloney on April 4, the Nighthawks shut out visiting Notre Dame Fairfield, at Fairfield Hills, 9-0 on May 8. The Nighthawks improved to 10-7 overall heading into their final three regular-season matchups.

In the win over Stratford, Jamie Piccuillo, Logan Akbas, and Dhilan Amin combined on a two-hitter with four strikeouts. Newtown fell behind 1-0 and scored four runs in the fifth. Sammy D’Aprile finished with two hits, two runs batted in, and a run scored. Danny Leyva had two hits, three stolen bases, and a pair of runs scored.

Against Notre Dame, Will Burns went five innings, allowing just one hit, no walks, and striking out ten. Relievers Filippo Formica and Nick Tetrault combined to close things out with Formica pitching a hitless frame. The runs came early and often with the Hawks plating a pair in the opening frame, single runs in the second, third, and fourth, and four more in the fifth to put things out of reach. Amin and Hayden Conklin each had two hits, an RBI, and run scored. Josh Rosen delivered a hit, two RBI, and run scored. Evan Nkolis had two hits, two RBI, and two runs scored. Nikolis had a triple and double, and Rosen and Amin also doubled. D’Aprile worked three walks and scored a run.