Andre Chiefs

The ICL is pleased to announce its 2012 award winners. The recipients will be honored on Saturday evening, November 10th as part of the Intercity League’s annual Hall of Fame and Awards Dinner at the Montvale Plaza in Stoneham, MA.

MVP- JEFF BERCUME (Andre Chiefs)
OUTSTANDING HITTER-JUAN PORTES (Andre Chiefs)
OUTSTANDING PITCHER-JARED FRENI (Andre Chiefs)
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR- NICK CONTI (Reading Bulldogs)
ROOKIE PITCHER OF THE YEAR-NICK CARAFA (Testa Corp. Bombers)
PLAYOFF MVP-JARED FRENI (Andre Chiefs)
SPORTSMANSHIP AWARD- KEEGAN DENAPOLI (Mooney Dental Tanners)

The events will begin at 6:00 PM on November 10th. Event Chairman Orazio Azzarello can be reached at (617) 839-1488 for tickets or be reached by email at iclhalloffame@yahoo.com

Boston, MA- The accolades continue to pour in for the Chiefs following the winning of the 2012 Intercity League Championship last Sunday.

The Boston Red Sox and the BoSox Club have gotten into the act and will honor the Chiefs at a luncheon on Tuesday, September 25 at the Sheraton Needham Hotel.

At the luncheon, which begins at 11:30 AM, the Chiefs will receive their 2012 championship trophy.

Later that day the Red Sox host the Tampa Bay Rays at Fenway Park at 7:10 PM.

By Stephen Freker
Medford Daily Mercury/Malden Evening News

Jared Freni’s done plenty this summer throwing smoke off the mound for the Andre Chiefs.

But there are two items that could not be brought up prior to last night’s ballgame, another gem by the righthander from Malden.

Now they can be said:

Freni has been the best pitcher in the best semiprofessional baseball league in Massachusetts from his opening start to his last.

And the best pitcher in the Intercity League hurls for the best TEAM in the ICL.

Case closed.

With Freni running the defense through his towering presence on the Chiefs mound, and his Andre teammates finally busting out of offensive funk, a 15-year ICL championship drought for one of the winningest teams in league history came to a end with a 3-0 shutout victory for the Chiefs over five-time defending champ Lexington last night on the road in a winner-take-all Game Five.

It is the Chiefs’ first crown since the 1997 campaign and the eighteenth overall for the franchise and fifth for manager Chuck Andre.

The Chiefs, then known as the Hosmer Chiefs, won thirteen other ICL and Suburban Twi-League crowns from 1960-1980.

In defeating Lexington, the Chiefs stopped a five-year championship streak for the Blue Sox.

In Sunday’s clincher, the Chiefs scored the only run they would need in the first inning. Hal Landers had a leadoff single, Tony Deshler sacrificed Landers to second and Juan Portes doubled to left to drive in Landers.

Freni won his second game of the finals and his second shutout. He scattered six hits, struck out five and walked one.

Portes had two doubles, an RBI and run scored for the Chiefs. Mike Baillargeon doubled and had a sacrifice fly in the sixth. Jeff Bercume drove in the Chiefs’ other run.