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Veteran Merchants Hammer Youthful Chiefs, 13-1
Posted by Chiefs Baseball on
Jun 20 2006
at
05:00PM PDT
in 2010 Season
Medford- Warren Olson is not walking through that door.
Neither is Hank Landers, Joe Rizzo, Alex Masel, Dave Clivio or Steve Daley et, al.
Make no mistake about it, these are not your grandfather's Chiefs.
That fact could not be any more evident than it was Tuesday night when the veteran Wakefield Merchants came to town and showed the young Chiefs what day to day life in the ICL is all about, ripping off 15 hits and 13 runs off a quartet of Chiefs picthers en route to a 13-1 thrashing of the locals at Playstead Park.
It was the worst defeat for the Chiefs since June 15, 1997, when the Cremone A's put an end to a 18 game Chief winning steak, 24-5 at Devir Park.
This one started and ended ugly for the youthful Chiefs.
The Merchants sent 19 year old Chiefs southpaw Connor Bishop (Arlington, MA, Bridgewater State) to the showers after just 1.1 innings, roughing up the former Spy Ponders star for six runs and eight hits.
It was pretty much downhill hill from there as the Merchants continued their assault with four more runs against former Medford High star Mark Blake (UMass-Amherst), who worked an inning and two thirds giving up four runs, three earned.
Wakefield's offensive barrage was momentarily halted in the fourth by University of Michigan bound lefty Jeff DeCarlo, formerly of St. John's Prep, before the Merchants got to him for four runs on four hits in their half of the fifth.
L.J. DiMaino (3 for 4) of Clemson University, Rob Papenhouse (3 for 4) of Brown and Mike Sorrentino (3 for 5) of WPI feasted on Chiefs pitching for a combined 9 for 13 throughout the evening.
On the mound, Merchants veteran starter John Spidel, allowed just four hits, including the 79th career home run off the bat of Justin Crisafulli in the first inning , that accounted for the Chiefs lone run of the evening.
Another isolated bright spot for the Chiefs was righty Mike Chandler (Hamilton, MA, Merrimack) who worked a 1-2-3 sixth inning.
Chiefs Notebook....The Chiefs fell to four games under .500, (2-6-1) for the first time in their illustrious history. In fact, the last time a Chiefs team was below .500 was on May 29, 1993, when the then defending champion Chiefs fell to 1-2 three games into the season. They recovered quickly and finished the season at 23-10....In the "shaving cream not yet required" department, how young are these 2006 Chiefs anyway? Aside from 30 year old veteran star Justin Crisafulli, the Chiefs did not have a starting player on the field tonight that had reached their 20th birthday. In the ICL, that's "big time" young....The injury bug continues to bite the Chiefs as well. Ace Mike Lanciani (elbow), catcher Sean O'Brien (stomach) and veteran centerfielder Brian Macrina (knee) were out of the lineup....For Lanciani, Chandler, Doug Heald, Mike Andre and Mike Coppinger, all current players at Merrimack College, it was a chance for them to see what their head coach and veteran Merchant second baseman Joe Sarno could do on the field. Sarno showed his players that he could still play the game at a pretty high level with a third inning basehit and a spectacular game ending grab of a Matt Boleski pop up in shallow centerfield....The Chiefs are off on Wednesday and will return to action on Thursday night when they travel to Ferullo Field in Woburn for a 8:00 PM start...
Neither is Hank Landers, Joe Rizzo, Alex Masel, Dave Clivio or Steve Daley et, al.
Make no mistake about it, these are not your grandfather's Chiefs.
That fact could not be any more evident than it was Tuesday night when the veteran Wakefield Merchants came to town and showed the young Chiefs what day to day life in the ICL is all about, ripping off 15 hits and 13 runs off a quartet of Chiefs picthers en route to a 13-1 thrashing of the locals at Playstead Park.
It was the worst defeat for the Chiefs since June 15, 1997, when the Cremone A's put an end to a 18 game Chief winning steak, 24-5 at Devir Park.
This one started and ended ugly for the youthful Chiefs.
The Merchants sent 19 year old Chiefs southpaw Connor Bishop (Arlington, MA, Bridgewater State) to the showers after just 1.1 innings, roughing up the former Spy Ponders star for six runs and eight hits.
It was pretty much downhill hill from there as the Merchants continued their assault with four more runs against former Medford High star Mark Blake (UMass-Amherst), who worked an inning and two thirds giving up four runs, three earned.
Wakefield's offensive barrage was momentarily halted in the fourth by University of Michigan bound lefty Jeff DeCarlo, formerly of St. John's Prep, before the Merchants got to him for four runs on four hits in their half of the fifth.
L.J. DiMaino (3 for 4) of Clemson University, Rob Papenhouse (3 for 4) of Brown and Mike Sorrentino (3 for 5) of WPI feasted on Chiefs pitching for a combined 9 for 13 throughout the evening.
On the mound, Merchants veteran starter John Spidel, allowed just four hits, including the 79th career home run off the bat of Justin Crisafulli in the first inning , that accounted for the Chiefs lone run of the evening.
Another isolated bright spot for the Chiefs was righty Mike Chandler (Hamilton, MA, Merrimack) who worked a 1-2-3 sixth inning.
Chiefs Notebook....The Chiefs fell to four games under .500, (2-6-1) for the first time in their illustrious history. In fact, the last time a Chiefs team was below .500 was on May 29, 1993, when the then defending champion Chiefs fell to 1-2 three games into the season. They recovered quickly and finished the season at 23-10....In the "shaving cream not yet required" department, how young are these 2006 Chiefs anyway? Aside from 30 year old veteran star Justin Crisafulli, the Chiefs did not have a starting player on the field tonight that had reached their 20th birthday. In the ICL, that's "big time" young....The injury bug continues to bite the Chiefs as well. Ace Mike Lanciani (elbow), catcher Sean O'Brien (stomach) and veteran centerfielder Brian Macrina (knee) were out of the lineup....For Lanciani, Chandler, Doug Heald, Mike Andre and Mike Coppinger, all current players at Merrimack College, it was a chance for them to see what their head coach and veteran Merchant second baseman Joe Sarno could do on the field. Sarno showed his players that he could still play the game at a pretty high level with a third inning basehit and a spectacular game ending grab of a Matt Boleski pop up in shallow centerfield....The Chiefs are off on Wednesday and will return to action on Thursday night when they travel to Ferullo Field in Woburn for a 8:00 PM start...
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