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Malden, MA- Tim Dunphy of the Chiefs and Lamarre Rey of the Bombers both came out of the bullpen to throw nothing but blanks as the two clubs battled to a 5-5 tie on the slick Maplewood field turf on Wednesday night.

Dunphy was once again superb for the Chiefs, this time hurling scoreless two hit baseball over the last five innings. Ditto for Rey, who worked three scoreless frames for the Bombers.

The Bombers jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the second against Chiefs starter Keith Forbes on a Devin Perry triple followed by a Stan DeMartinis RBI infield grounder.

The Chiefs stormed back in the top of the third inning against Anthony Del Prete when they took a 4-1 lead. Torrid Mike Barbati led off with a single and Matt Boleski sacrificed him to second. Paul Yanakopulos followed with a long drive to deep right. Perry slipped on the wet turf and the ball went off his foot into the right field corner, allowing Barbati to score as Yanakopulos came all the way around on the four-base error. Vinny Pennell followed with a double to left-center but Del Prete got Tony Deshler on a grounder to third. Mike Andre then gave the Chiefs a 4-1 lead when he hit his second homer of the season to right. For Andre, who has a team leading 13 runs batted in, it was RBI's 99 and 100 of his Chiefs career.

The Bombers chopped a run off the lead (4-2) in the bottom of the third on a Dan Gad sacrifice fly. They came all the way back to re-take the lead at 5-4 against Forbes in the fourth, using singles from DeMartinis and Anthony Serino, an Alex Barber double, and a Vin Eruzione triple.

The Chiefs scored the last run of the game in the top of the fifth inning when Mike Baillargeon launched a one out solo homer to right-center, his first of the season and seventh of his Chiefs career, knotting the game at 5-5.

The Chiefs are right back in action on Thursday when they host the Wakefield Merchants at Tufts University starting at 6:00 PM.