2024 Intercity League Champions – Andre Chiefs

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Chiefs and Blue Sox Win on Monday Night

INTERCITY LEAGUE NEWS & NOTES

Blue Sox Beat Braves 9-2, Chiefs Lose, Other Games PPD

The Lexington Blue Sox used a 5-run first inning on the way to a 9-2 win Wednesday night. The game was moved to Minuteman Tech’s turf field after the Lexington’s home field was unplayable due to rain. Nick Andersen’s 2-run triple was the big hit in the first. Erick Ramirez had three hits and scored three runs. Chris Wanat (2-1) pitched five 1-run innings. He gave up four hits, walked none, and struck out six. Dan Metzdorf and Ryan O’Rourke pitched the sixth and seventh innings and both had three strikeouts……..Mass Envelope/GM doubled up the Andre Chiefs 8-4 at Maplewood. The Chiefs relinquished a 3-0 4th inning lead when the visitors scored a half dozen runs. Miles Reid reached base four times f0r the Chiefs and Joe Bova and Michael Soares (double) had RBI’s……All other games were postponed…..

Bulldogs Walk Off ADSL in Only ICL Game Played on Tuesday

The Lexington Bulldogs scored a run in the bottom of the eighth inning to edge the BPL’s ADSL 2-1 on Tuesday in Lexington. Brett Stone (double) had three hits for the Bulldogs while Vince Libretto and Shane Costello supplied the RBI’s. Alec Peruzzi (1-2) picked up the win with two innings of five strikeout, scoreless and hitless relief, after taking over frrom Coley Schaefer (5 innings, 2 hits, 0 ER, 5 K’s) and Matt Mahoney (1 inning, 0 hits, 2 K’s)…… Both games that were to be hosted by the Boston Park League (Chiefs at E.I Braves and Sabers at Boston A’s) were postponed…….

Blue Sox and Maddogs Open Second Half with Wins

In the battle of Lexington bragging rights, Luis Atiles pinch-hit two-run home run in the top of the seventh delivered the 4-2 win for the Blue Sox. The Sox took a 2-0 lead in the first on Nick Andersen’s 2-run single that plated David VanderZouwen and Erick Ramirez. Andersen scored on Atiles’ HR. The Bulldogs tied the game in the bottom of the second. John Nordman’s bases-loaded walk brought in the first run and Jay Voica sac fly knotted the score. After Nordman’s walk only three Bulldogs reached base. Blue Sox starter Michael O’Brien set down 11 of the last 12 batters, including eight straight, he faced. Reliever Luke Descheneaux retired the first 5 batters he faced…….The Malden Maddogs got three RBI’s, on two hits, from Sam Browning on the way to a 7-2 win over the Brighton Black Sox at Brandeis University in Waltham. Luke Whitney (double, RBI, 2 runs) and Luke Miele added a couple of hits each to Malden’s nine-hit offense. Justin Posnik (3-2) struck out nine batters in his five innings to record the win……..In other Inter-League play, Mass Envelope/GM beat the Middlesex Expos 6-4 in Roslindale and the Boston Padres walked off the Melrose Americans 7-6 at Cleveland Circle. Chris Klein (homer), Nick Giangregorio, and Nate Galanis each had two hits for Melrose.,,,,,,,

Chiefs Blank Boston A’s 8-0, Sabers & Expos Lose as First Half Concludes

The Andre Chiefs moved into a first place tie with the Melrose Americans at 11-4-1 after blanking the Park League’s Boston A’s 8-0 on Wednesday night at Town Field in Dorchester. Michael Soares was a one man show for the Chiefs pitching five shutout innings and going 3-3 at the plate with two doubles, three runs scored, and an RBI. Tyler Ferdinand (double, 2 RBI), Nick Valdario, and Tim Catalano, each contributed a couple of hits to the Chiefs’ 13-hit offense while Ruben Rodriguez Jr added two RBI. Soares (1-0) got the win and Jonathan Chotkowski kept the shutout intact by working a scoreless sixth and seventh innings…….In other games, the BPL’s Palmer Club beat the Stoneham Sabers 6-0 at Maplewood and the E.I. Braves doubled up the Middlesex Expos 8-4 at Cleveland Circle….The Lexington Blue Sox-Mass Envelope/GM game scheduled for Fallon Field was postponed……