By Bruce Hack Lexington – Gage Gaunt doubled to center to score Jose Feliciano from first and deliver a 5-4 walk off win for Lexington over Alibrandis in ICL action Sunday night. Down 4-3, Joe Cacciatore started off the seventh reaching on an error. Alibrandis hurler Paul Frisoli tried to pickoff Cacciatore and threw the ball away allowing Cacciatore to go to third. After an out, Feliciano laid down a bunt on the first base side that Frisoli could not field cleanly allowing Cacciatore to score the tying run and Feliciano to reach safely. Thus setting up Gaunt for his game-winning heroics. Alibrandis had taken a 3-0 lead after scoring a run in each of the first three innings. Teddy Dzuiba scored in the first and third innings on RBI singles by David Lightbody and Steve Rizzuto. Juan Parra singled to drive in Joe Boushell in the second. The Blue Sox cut the lead to 3-2 in the bottom of the third. Brendan Jones and Cacciatore began the inning with singles. Manny Delcarmen sacrificed to move both runners up. Feliciano singled to drive in Jones. Cacciatore scored on a wild pitch. Charlie Auditore started the sixth for Alibrandis reaching second on an error. He scored on Boushell’s RBI single for a 4-2 lead. Lexington came right back in the bottom of the inning to make it 4-3. Alex Voitik and Alex Krylov had back-to-back doubles with Krylov getting the RBI. Robbie Cobb pitched 3.1 innings in relief for Lexington. He retired the first seven Alibrandis batters he faced, two on strike outs. He gave up an unearned run in there sixth, but his effort allowed Lexington to stay in the game. Paul Frisoli, 3-3, started and went the distance for Alibrandis. He started strong setting down the first six Lexington batters. He scattered nine hits, walked none and struck out five. Borja Jones-Berasaluce, 1-0, picked up the win pitching a scoreless seventh with a strikeout.

John Jennings and Pat Costigan combined for 10 RBI’s when the Melrose Americans outlasted the Andre Chiefs 13-12 in a nine inning slugfest at Maplewood on Thursday night. Jennings (3-4) had two homers and six RBI’s and Costigan (3-6) had a single, double, triple, and four RBI’s. Noah Jankowski (3-5) chipped in with a single, two doubles, and an RBI. Andrew Caulfield smacked two homers, Mitch Schroeder connected for his second round tripper of the year, and Ryan Noone had a 4-6 night with two doubles for the Chiefs. Bobby Tramondozzi (2-0), the sixth Melrose pitcher of the night, worked the final three innings to get his second win of the campaign. It was the Ryan O’Rourke show in Lexington when the Blue Sox blanked the Malden Maddogs 18-0. On the mound O’Rourke raised his season record to 7-0 striking out 13 batters and allowing just three hits in six innings. At the plate O’Rourke paced the offense with a 4-5 performance that included a double and three RBI’s. Josue Feliciano hit his second home run of the season and Dahiandy Johnson enjoyed a 3-3 evening to lead Lexington’s 22 hit offense. On Friday, the Blue Sox and Maddogs meet again, this time at Maplewood at 8:00 PM, and the Americans visit the Middlesex Expos at Trum Field at 8:30 PM.

Rain once again played havoc with the ICL schedule on Tuesday night. The Melrose Americans at Alibrandis game at Victory Field and the Middlesex Expos at Malden Maddogs contest at Maplewood were both rained out by the heavy thunderstorms. The Andre Chiefs and Reading Bulldogs got underway early at Austin Prep and played into the fourth inning when the game was suspended with the Chiefs in front 5-1. The game will be resumed at the point it was stopped on a date to be determined. Om Wednesday, the Chiefs host Alibrandis at Howard Park on the Malden Catholic campus at 8:00 PM.

Eathan Harris had a single, double, and triple to lead the Malden Maddogs to a 6-5 win over the Reading Bulldogs on Sunday at Morton Field. Dan Baker hit a grand slam in Reading’s five run bottom of the fifth inning which tied the game at 5-5 before the Maddogs won it with a single run in the sixth. Zak Levine (2-1) got the win with two innings of scoreless relief. At Morelli Field, Cam Monagle (3-0) struck out nine batters in five innings when the Middlesex Expos beat the Andre Chiefs 6-2. Jose Paulno (3 RBI’s) and Andrew Mazzone both homered to pace the Expos 12 hit offense. On Monday, Reading hosts Alibrandis at Austin Prep at 6:30 PM and the Melrose Americans and Lexington Blue Sox meet in Lexington at 8:00 PM.

Ryan O’Rourke (6-0) fired a 14 strikeout five-hitter when the Lexington Blue Sox beat the Melrose Americans 4-1 at Morelli Field on Thursday night. Luke Hall drove in two of Lexington’s runs with a solo homer and a sacrifice fly and Will Potdevin had three hits. Bobby Losanno had two of the Melrose hits and Keegan O’Connor drove home Mike Sorrentino for the Americans’ only run with a second inning single. Manny Delcarmen picked up his second save of the year when he worked a scoreless seventh with two K’s. Brendan McSorely (0-2) gave up just two runs in his four innings but took the loss. At Maplewood, veteran lefty Tim Dunphy (2-2) got the win when the Andre Chiefs defeated the Malden Maddogs 13-1. Ryan Noone had three hits, scored four runs, and added a couple of RBI’s, while Joe Bova had a bases clearing double in the Chiefs’ eight run third inning. The Reading Bulldogs and Alibrandis played to a 4-4 tie at Victory Field. Paul Frisoli went all seven innings for Alibrandis and struck out 13 while Jack Wallace worked the first five innings for Reading. Dave Lightbody had two doubles for Alibrandis. Andrew Croteau and Zac Willis (2 RBI) each had a single and double for the Bulldogs. On Friday, the Maddogs host Alibrandis at Maplewood at 7:45 PM and the Middlesex Expos travel to meet the Blue Sox in Lexington at 8:00 PM.