2025 Intercity League Champions – Lexington Blue Sox
Blue Sox Sweep Bulldogs to Take 2025 Championship
INTERCITY LEAGUE NEWS & NOTES
Lexington and Middlesex Make History
Lexington – The Blue Sox and Expos became the first Intercity League teams since 2006 to play consecutive 1-0 games in the playoffs. The teams accomplished this Wednesday night when Middlesex defeated Lexington 1-0 one night after the Blue Sox opened the semifinal series with a 1-0 win. There have now been 11 1-0 playoff games with Lexington playing in six with a 3-3 record. Middlesex has participated in the last four games going 2-2. The other time two 1-0 games were played in a playoff season was in 2010. On August 8 Testa Corp. defeated Wakefield 1-0 and four days later Watertown edged Andre 1-0. List of 1-0 playoff games August 7, 2006 at Cassell 1, Wakefield 0 August 16, 2007 at Cassell 1, Watertown 0 August 8, 2010 Testa Corp. 1, at Wakefield 0 August 12, 2010 Watertown 1, at Andre 0 August 23, 2013 Andre 1, at Lexington 0 August 21, 2018 at Lexington 1, Alibrandis 0 August 14, 2019 at Lexington 1, Andre 0 August 10, 2022 Middlesex 1, at Lexington 0 (Morelli) August 16, 2023 Andre 1, at Expos 0 (MC) August 6, 2024 at Lexington 1, Middlesex 0 (8) (EBS) August 7, 2024 at Middlesex 1, Lexington 0 (MRVTHS) By Bruce Hack Lexington Team Historian Sportstats
Frisoli Pitches Chiefs to 2-0 Series Lead
(Malden, MA)- Veteran righty Paul Frisoli tossed a complete game six-hitter to lead the Andre Chiefs to a 7-2 win over the Melrose Americans on Wednesday night at Maplewood. The win gives the Chiefs a 2-0 series lead. Game three of the best of five semi-final set will be played tonight (Thursday) back at Maplewood starting at 8:00 PM. The Chiefs jumped out to a 1-0 lead off Melrose starter Nick Colucci in the top of the second inning when Mitchell Schroeder drilled a solo homer. The Chiefs sent a dozen men to the plate and opened the lead to 7-0 in the top of the fourth. The six run inning was keyed by Ruben Rodriguez, Jr (single), Joe Bova (RBI, double), Nick Valdario (RBI, sacrifice fly), Tyler Feedinand (single), and Miles Reid (RBI, single). Shawn Nestor picked up an RBI for the Americans, when he drove home Owen Duggan (single), with a sixth inning sacrifice fly that cut the Chiefs’ lead to 7-2. Miles Reid led the Chiefs’ eight hit offense with two hits and Teddy Dziuba added a first inning double. Frisoli struck out eight and walked just one. Colucci went 4.2 innings and took the loss. Ben Cassavoy (1.1 inn) and Bailey Taylor-Black (1 inn) also worked for the Americans.
Middlesex evens series with 1-0 win
Lexington – The Middlesex Expos turned the tables on Lexington and won their own 1-0 game Wednesday night at Minuteman Vocational Technical High School in Lexington. The win evened the series at 1-1. Game three will be held at Lexington High School if the field is playable. If it is not playable the teams will return to Minuteman Tech. The Expos got on the board in the bottom of the fifth. Aidan Sengenberger reached on an error to start the inning. After a strikeout, Manny Castro grounded a ball into the shortstop hole, Blue Sox shortstop Charlie Walsh made a sliding stop and tried to get Sengenberger at second, but his throw was late. Jose Paulino then blooped a ball down the right field line that dropped in fair, and Sengenberger raced home with the game’s only run. Matt Donovan started for Middlesex and pitched a 3-hit complete-game shutout. He walked four and struck out six. Donovan set down eight straight Blue Sox from the third through sixth innings. He only allowed two Sox runners to reach in the sixth when Max Dushney singled and Jake McElroy walked to put runners on first and second. A fly ball out to center allowed Dushney to move to third, the second Blue Sox to reach third. Pinch-hitter Julian Alvarez hit into a fielder’s choice to end the threat. Lexington starter Ryan O’Rourke pitched a 2-hitter over six innings. The southpaw walked two and struck out seven. He set down 10 of 11 Expos from the first through fourth innings. The only extra-base hit in game two was a first-inning double by Lexington’s Ben Leonard. The offense has been tough to generate for both teams in the first two games of the series. The Expos and Blue Sox have combined for two runs, 12 hits, and two extra-base hits. The five pitchers used, have combined for 32 strikeouts in 28.2 innings. By Bruce Hack, Lexington Team Historian
Chiefs Take Series Lead Behind Reed’s One-Hitter-Game 2 Moved to Maplewood Tonight at 8
(Malden, MA)– Tufts University’s Miles Reed came within an out of a no-hitter, finshing with a one-hit gem, to lead the Andre Chiefs to a 4-0 win over the Melrose Americans on Tuesday night at Maplewood. With the win, the defending champion Chiefs take a 1-0 semi-final series lead. Game Two of the best of five series will be played back at Maplewood on Wednesday at 8:00 PM. The game has been moved to Maplewood due to wet conditions at Morelli Field. Reed and Melrose starter Mike Nestor hooked up in a scroreless pitcher’s duel until the Chiefs scratched out two runs in the bottom of the fourth on consecutive RBI singles from veteran shortstop Nate Witkowski and Tyler Ferdinand. The teams matched zeros until the Chiefs put up a couple of insurance runs on Miles Reid’s sixth inning, two out, two RBI double to right-center to take a 4-0 lead into the seventh. Reed gor the first two Americans in the seventh before John Jennings hit a 1-0 pitch to left for a single breaking up the no-hit bid. Reed struck out 10 and walked two. Nestor allowed six hits, and struck out eight.