BULLDOGS WIN FIRST EVER ICL CHAMPIONSHIP
INTERCITY LEAGUE NEWS & NOTES
Intercity League edges Yawkey League 3-2, advances to championship
This is the seventh year of the Eastern Mass Amateur Baseball Classic between the Intercity League, the Park League, the Yawkey League and the Cranberry League. The event was held at BC High’s Monan Park, which is also home to the UMass Boston baseball team. John Jennings (Melrose) single to center to drive in Dillon Koster (Wakefield), who started the inning with a single, with the winning run in top of the seventh to give the Intercity League a 3-2 win over the Yawkey League and advance to the championship game of the Eastern Mass Amateur Baseball Classic. The Intercity League will face the Cranberry League, a 7-5 winner over the Park League, in the championship game. Manny Delcarmen (Lexington) came in to close out the game in the bottom of the seventh and did so facing only three batters thanks to a double play and a ground out. In a back-and-forth game, the Yawkey League struck first scoring a run in the second inning. Hecter Cosciono hit one just inside the leftfield foul pole for a solo home run and a 1-0 lead. The Intercityers tied the game in the third when with two outs Charlie Huegi (Melrose) walked. He scored on Bobby Losano’s (Wakefield) single to center. They took a 2-1 lead two innings later when Teddy Dziuba (Alibrandis) walked with one out. Nick Valdario (Somerville) went in as a pinch runner for Dziuba.. Valdario went to third on a single by Jennings. He scored on a sacrifice fly to Huegi for the 2-1 lead. The Yawkies responded in the sixth to tie the game on a Jake Keen RBI single that scored Alex Wong (single). Ben Gottesman (Reading) earned the win for the Intercity League despite giving up the tying run in the sixth. He recorded a strikeout in his inning of work. Melrose’s Kyle Autillo pitched the fourth and fifth innings holding the Yawkey League hitless and striking out two. Wakefield’s Joe Maguire had the only 1-2-3 inning in the third for the ICL pitchers. Losano and Jennings each had two hits, accounting for two-thirds of ICL’s six hits in the game. The win gave the ICL a 7-3 record in the seven years of the EMABC, the best of the four leagues that play in the event. By Bruce Hack, ICL correspondent
Eastern Massachusetts All-Star Classic is at UMass-Boston on Saturday
The 2018 Eastern Massachusetts Amateur All-Star Baseball Classic will be played on Saturday July 14. The games will be broadcast live by Sam Feeley of Local Sports Productions. Click on at 10:55 AM to watch. http://www.localsportsproductions.com/live The All-Star tournament now in its seventh year, features teams from the Intercity League, the Boston Park League, the Cranberry League and the Yawkey League. All games will be played at Father Monan Field on the Campus of Boston College High School and UMass-Boston. Game 1 11:00 AM Boston Park League vs Cranberry League Game 2 2:00 PM Intercity League vs Yawkey League Championship Game 5:00 PM Game 1 Winner vs Game 2 Winner
Royals Beat Reds in Friday’s Only Game
Eduardo Soto had a double, triple, and three RBI’s, and the Somerville Royals got a homer and two RBI’s from Luke Ronchi to hold on and beat the Watertown Reds 9-7 at Trum Field on Friday night. Brady Chant and Jake Cintolo each added a couple of hits and an RBI to the Royals 10 hit offense. Logan Gillis drove in four of the Reds’ runs with three hits that included a triple. Ryan Covelle (2-1) got the win with help from Cal Carroll who recorded the save. It was the only ICL game on the Friday schedule.
Merchants, Alibrandis & Bulldogs Victorious on Thursday Night
The Wakefield Merchants got a homer from Bobby Losanno, three hits from Joe Barry, and three RBI’s and a couple of more hits from Dillon Koster, to beat the Melrose Americans 16-9 at Morelli Field. Koster continues to lead the ICL batting race, hitting a gaudy .592 (29-49) with 16 RBI’s. Greg Johnson (1-0) got the win. David Lightbody’s three-run homer in the fourth inning powered Alibrandis to an 8-4 win over the Blue Sox in Lexington. For Alibrandis it was their fourth straight win. Teddy Dziuba and Jamil Moquette each had three hits for Alibrandis and Andrew Selima drove in three of the runs for the Sox. Brian Tanguay (1-1) picked up the win. Jack Burke (2-0) tossed five innings of three-hit ball, and Alex Mandrus recorded the save, when the Reading Bulldogs edged the Somerville Royals 6-5 at Endicott College.