Wednesday’s Recap of ICL Games

Wins by the Somerville Royals, Melrose Americans, Lexington Blue Sox, and Andre Chiefs highlighted Wednesday night’s full slate of four ICL games.

In Wakefield, the Royals banged out 15 hits, led by Wagner Gomez who had a 3-3 evening with a homer and a couple of RBI’s, on the way to an 8-5 win.  Rob Caggiano, Luke Ronchi, B.J. Neil, and Curtis Tirone each had two hits for Somerville. Wyatt Stanley (1-1) got the win.

Austin Masel and Tom Petry had three hits apiece and Dave Center and Isiah Berg each homered when the Americans unleashed a 15 hit attack of their own in an 11-3 win over the Trojans at Morelli Field. Kyle Autilio (1-1) went six innings to record the win.

The Lexington Blue Sox got five strong innings from Aidan Freeburg (3-1) and beat the Watertown Reds 4-1 at Victory Field. Alex Voitik hit his third homer of the season to pace the Blue Sox offense. Aric Dama (4-1) suffered his first loss of the season in a complete game effort. Chris Law picked up his third save of the year when working a scoreless seventh for the Blue Sox.

At Maplewood, the Chiefs were down to their last out before a Nate Witkowski game tying single and a Mike Barbati game winning double gave them an 8-7 win over the Reading Bulldogs. The Chiefs erased Reading leads of 4-1, 5-3 and 7-6 to record the comeback win. Witkowski led the Chiefs with three hits, and Ryan Sonberg and Barbati each added two hits. Kyle Devin, Zac Talis, and E.J. Martinez, had two each for the Bulldogs. Mike DiCato (3-1) got the win for the Chiefs in relief of Anthony DeSouza.