Nick Valdario’s single in the bottom of the seventh inning gave the Andre Chiefs a 5-4 walk-off win against the Lexington Blue Sox on Friday night at Maplewood. The Chiefs overcame a 4-1 deficit and tied the game when they scored three times in the bottom of the sixth. Andrew Caulfield (double, 2 RBI’s) and Chris Klein each had two hits for the Chiefs. Tommy Leone (1-1) tossed 2.1 innings of shutout ball to get the win in relief of starter Anthony Del Prete (4.1 innings, 5 K’s) and Jonathan Richard (0.1 inning). Chris Aufiero had a double and two RBI’s for the Blue Sox. The Melrose Americans got a combined 13 strikeout effort from starter Christian Loescher (4 innings, 8 K’s) and winner Ronnie Luke (1-1, 3 innings, 5 K’s) and edged the Middlesex Expos 3-2 at a game played a Trum Field in Somerville. Gianni Zarrilli (double) had two hits for the Americans while John Jennings and Cory Bright had RBI’s. Dionys Quezada hit his league leading sixth homer for the Expos in the bottom of the fourth inning. Shawn Carlson (0-1) took the loss. The ICL regular season will conclude on Sunday when the Americans host the Reading Bulldogs at Morelli Field at 4:00 PM.

Gianni Zarilli drove in all three runs with a single and double and Chris Mitchell picked up his league leading sixth win when the Melrose Americans edged the Andre Chiefs 3-2 at Morelli Field on Wednesday night. Mitchell now 6-1, went six innings allowing just five hits while striking out four. Bobby Tramondozzi struck out two in the seventh to grab the save. Teddy Dziuba drove in both of the Chiefs’ runs when they tied the game at 2-2 in the top of the fifth inning. Cal Carroll (1-3) took the loss. In Lexington, the Blue Sox got five shutout innings of one hit pitching from Jake Vesling and blanked the Middlesex Expos 5-0. The Blue Sox put this one away early when they had six straight hits and scored four times in the bottom of the first inning after two were out. The big blow was Alex Voitik’s two run homer. Vesling (2-0) struck out seven. Borja Jones-Berasaluce and Manny Delcarmen combined to throw a scoreless sixth and seventh inning. Kevin Michael (0-1) was tagged with the loss. In Wednesday’s final game, the Malden Maddogs edged the Reading Bulldogs 4-3 at Maplewood. Tonight the Bulldogs and Blue Sox meet in Lexington and the Americans and Maddogs meet at Maplewood. Both games will start at 8:00 PM.