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*Top Five in Each Category are Shown
**Points were awarded on a 5-3-1 basis
***Points are shown in parenthesis
MVP
1-Dan Graham- Blue Sox (14)
2-Dave Ahern- Americans (11)
3-Jeff Bercume- Chiefs (10)
4-Matt Karis- Blue Sox (8)
5-Mike Delponte- Americans (6)
OUTSTANDING HITTER
1-Dave Ahern- Americans (20)
2-Dan Graham- Blue Sox (11)
3-Jeff Bercume-Chiefs (11)
4-Mike Delponte- Blue Sox (9)
5-Steve Tahmoush-Americans (3)
OUTSTANDING PITCHER
1-Matt Karis- Blue Sox (28)
2-Anthony Del Prete- Bombers (12)
3-Steve Bodnar- Blue Sox (7)
4-Brian Casey- Americans (4)
5-(tie) Dave Martin- Americans (1)
5-(tie) Dylan Ellis- Chiefs (1)
5-(tie) Mike DiCato- Chiefs (1)
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
1-Joe Papa- Bombers (20)
2-Alex LiDonni- Merchants (12)
3-Hal Landers- Chiefs (7)
4-Steve Wadsworth- Bombers (5)
5-Ben Mullin- Tanners (5)
ROOKIE PITCHER OF THE YEAR
1-Matt Karis- Blue Sox (30)
2-Eddie Donovan- Bombers (12)
3-Rob Machado- Chiefs (9)
4-Brian O’Neil- Americans (1)
PLAYOFF MVP
1-Pete Frates- Blue Sox (28)
2-Mike Andre- Chiefs (9)
3-Sean McElroy- Blue Sox (6)
4-Steve Bodnar- Blue Sox (5)
5-Jeff Bercume- Chiefs (5)
SPORTSMANSHIP AWARD
1-Eric Poling- Blue Sox (13)
2-Steve Langone- Merchants (9)
3-Paul Crisafulli- Chiefs (8)
4-(tie) Tom O’Connor- Americans (5)
4-(tie) Justin Crisafulli- Chiefs (5)
4-(tie) Ryan Doyle- Tanners (5)
CATEGORY LEADERS-Regular Season & Playoffs
Batting Average | Doubles | RBI | |||||
Peter Copa | .329 | Brendan Pyburn | 7 | Jeff Bercume | 25 | ||
Jeff Bercume | .325 | Mike Andre | 6 | Mike Andre | 17 | ||
Mike Andre | .319 | Dario Pizzano | 6 | Hal Landers | 15 | ||
Hal Landers | .269 | Jeff Bercume | 6 | Justin Crisafulli | 14 | ||
Mike Baillargeon | .261 | Peter Copa | 4 | (3 tied with 9) | |||
Brian Macrina | .256 | (2 tied with 3) | |||||
Runs Scored | Triples | Walks | |||||
Brendan Pyburn |
23 |
|
Mike Baillargeon |
4 |
|
Dario Pizzano |
13 |
Peter Copa |
18 |
|
Jeff Bercume |
2 |
|
JP Pollard |
11 |
Jeff Bercume |
18 |
|
Hal Landers |
1 |
|
Bob McCarthy |
10 |
Brian Macrina |
15 |
|
Brian Macrina |
1 |
|
Hal Landers |
10 |
Mike Andre |
12 |
|
|
|
|
Jeff Bercume |
8 |
Hal Landers |
12 |
|
|
|
|
Mike Andre |
8 |
Hits | Home Runs | Stolen Bases | |||||
Jeff Bercume |
39 |
|
Jeff Bercume |
4 |
|
Jeff Bercume |
19 |
Brendan Pyburn |
34 |
|
Mike Andre |
2 |
|
Hal Landers |
6 |
Mike Andre |
30 |
|
Hal Landers |
1 |
|
Brendan Pyburn |
6 |
Bob McCarthy |
26 |
|
Matt Boleski |
1 |
|
Peter Copa |
4 |
Hal Landers |
25 |
Mike Baillargeon |
1 |
Bob McCarthy |
2 |
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Peter Copa |
25 |
Brendan Pyburn | 1 | (3 tied with 1) | |||
Wins | Appearances | ||||||
Mike DiCato |
6 |
Mike DiCato |
11 |
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Dylan Ellis |
5 |
Chris Foundas |
10 |
||||
Dan Lozeau |
4 |
Dan Lozeau |
9 |
||||
Rob Machado |
2 |
Rob Machado |
9 |
||||
Ryan McNeill |
2 |
Dylan Ellis |
9 |
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Innings Pitched | Strikeouts | ||||||
Mike DiCato | 61.2 | Dylan Ellis |
50 |
||||
Dylan Ellis | 54.0 | Mike DiCato |
41 |
||||
Dan Lozeau | 42.0 | Ryan McNeill |
24 |
||||
Rob Machado | 38.2 | Dan Lozeau |
23 |
||||
Ryan McNeill | 35.1 | Chris Foundas |
20 |
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ERA (min 27 Inn) | K's/ 7 Innings | ||||||
Dylan Ellis |
1.81 |
Chris Foundas | 8.93 | ||||
Mike DiCato |
2.13 |
Chris Labriola | 7.00 | ||||
Rob Machado |
2.35 |
Matt Boleski | 7.00 | ||||
Ryan McNeill |
3.37 |
Dylan Ellis | 6.48 | ||||
Dan Lozeau |
3.67 |
Ryan McNeill | 4.75 | ||||
GAME FOUR: SOX UPEND CHIEFS TO TAKE ICL CHAMPIONSHIP
Medford, MA- The Lexington Dynasty continues.
The 1990's was the decade of the dominating Chiefs. The initial decade of the 2000's is firmly in the camp of the Lexington Blue Sox.
Rick DeAngelis' "Big Blue Army" made sure of that, when for the third consecutive summer and the sixth time in the last eight years, the ICL's championship series concluded with the Blue Sox once again being fitted for the crown.
The Chiefs playoff run ended late Sunday afternoon at Tufts University when the Sox shook off a 1-0 series defecit to take three straight games, the clincher being an 8-1 win.
The Blue Sox came to play early as they took a 1-0 lead off Chiefs starter and loser Ryan McNeill in the first inning. Red hot Peter Frates got things going when he led off and lined a single to right. McNeill uncorked a wild pitch and Frates took second. Things got worse for the Chiefs when Ross Curley dropped a bunt that McNeill threw late to first, putting runners on the corners with no outs. A Dan Graham fielders choice scored Frates with the first run. McNeill then hit Sean McElroy with a pitch and the Chiefs escaped the inning pretty cheaply when Steve Gath bounced into a 6-4-3 doubleplay.
Lexington's starter Drew Brzozowski set the Chiefs down in order in the bottom of the first inning.
The Sox added an unearned run in the top of the second. Tom Haugh reached with one out when second baseman Mike Baillargeon bobbled his grounder. Jeff Nolet followed and delivered Haugh with a long gap shot double to make it 2-0.
Bailargeon opened the Chiefs second and reached second base when Anthony Santos misplayed his pop-up to short right field. Mike Andre stayed red hot and lined a single to right-center scoring Baillargeon to cut the lead to 2-1. The Chiefs looked to be in serious business when Dario Pizzano driilled Brzozowski's next picth into the left-center field gap for a double that sent Andre to third. The Chiefs could not put the tying accross as Andre was thrown out at the plate on Bob McCarthy's grounder and Brzozowski struck out Hal Landers to end the threat.
Nothing doing for either club in the third and the Sox made a big push toward the championship when they came up with four runs in the top of the fourth to take a 6-1 lead. Haugh walked and consecutive doubles from Nolet and Santos moved the margin to 4-1. After Frates grounded out to Brian Macrina at first, Curley delivered a fielder's choice RBI when he grounded to Baillargeon at second and Santos beat his throw home to make it 5-1. Chris Foundas came on in relief of McNeill and he hit Graham with a pitch. It went to 6-1 when the Chiefs could not convert on a McElroy potential double play ball.
Brzozowski set the Chiefs down 1-2-3 in the bottom of the fourth. The Sox put it out of reach when they picked up a couple more runs off Foundas in the top of the fifth on a walk to Nolet, singles from Frates and McElroy sandwiched around a Graham double down the right field line.
A Macrina two out single was all the Chiefs could come up with in the bottom of the fifth and left-hander Connor Bishop came on to get the Sox side in order in the top of the sixth.
Brzozowski worked another three up, three down inning in the Chiefs sixth.
Bishop, by a wide margin the Chiefs most effective pitcher of the day, retired the Blue Sox side in order again in the top of the seventh.
Mike Barbati, who had a pinch hit single on Friday, batted for Justin Crisafulli and Brzozowski got the first out of the seventh when he caught him looking. Pizzano then flied to McEvoy in left for the second out. McCarthy briefly put the Sox celebration on hold when he singled to left but the Sox put away another championship when pinch-hitter Matt Boleski flew to Graham in right to end the game.
CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES NOTES-COMING SOON
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2009 Chiefs Final Intercity League Statistics (Including Playoffs)
BATTING |
FLD |
||||||||||||||||||
Player |
AVG |
GP |
AB |
R |
H |
2B |
3B |
HR |
RBI |
BB |
SO |
HBP |
SB-A |
SAC |
PO |
A |
E |
FLD |
|
Peter Copa |
.329 |
29 |
76 |
18 |
25 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
8 |
7 |
4 |
4 |
4-4 |
4 |
57 |
43 |
10 |
.909 |
|
Jeff Bercume |
.325 |
36 |
120 |
18 |
39 |
6 |
2 |
4 |
25 |
8 |
7 |
3 |
19-23 |
2 |
61 |
3 |
3 |
.955 |
|
Mike Andre |
.319 |
34 |
94 |
12 |
30 |
6 |
0 |
2 |
17 |
8 |
16 |
1 |
0-0 |
2 |
17 |
55 |
2 |
.973 |
|
Hal Landers |
.269 |
37 |
93 |
12 |
25 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
15 |
10 |
21 |
1 |
6-7 |
1 |
33 |
2 |
1 |
.972 |
|
Mike Baillargeon |
.261 |
15 |
46 |
8 |
12 |
3 |
4 |
1 |
9 |
5 |
6 |
1 |
0-0 |
0 |
24 |
42 |
4 |
.943 |
|
Brian Macrina |
.256 |
27 |
82 |
15 |
21 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
9 |
7 |
10 |
0 |
1-1 |
3 |
106 |
2 |
1 |
.991 |
|
Bob McCarthy |
.255 |
36 |
102 |
13 |
26 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
8 |
10 |
6 |
6 |
2-3 |
2 |
177 |
15 |
2 |
.990 |
|
Brendan Pyburn |
.248 |
38 |
137 |
23 |
34 |
7 |
0 |
1 |
9 |
7 |
16 |
1 |
6-9 |
3 |
57 |
99 |
11 |
.934 |
|
Dario Pizzano |
.246 |
31 |
65 |
10 |
16 |
6 |
1 |
0 |
8 |
13 |
6 |
0 |
1-3 |
0 |
22 |
2 |
1 |
.960 |
|
Mike Barbati |
.219 |
23 |
32 |
5 |
7 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
6 |
3 |
8 |
0 |
0-0 |
2 |
19 |
24 |
5 |
.896 |
|
Matt Boleski |
.214 |
10 |
14 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
3 |
2 |
1-1 |
0 |
6 |
0 |
1 |
.857 |
|
Justin Crisafulli |
.208 |
33 |
96 |
2 |
20 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
14 |
5 |
10 |
6 |
0-1 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
.000 |
|
Ed McDonald |
.167 |
4 |
6 |
4 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0-0 |
0 |
8 |
0 |
0 |
1.000 |
|
JP Pollard |
.155 |
25 |
58 |
8 |
9 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
8 |
11 |
8 |
0 |
0-2 |
2 |
165 |
7 |
2 |
.989 |
|
Phil Costello |
.100 |
6 |
10 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
7 |
0 |
0-0 |
1 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
1.000 |
|
Bill Cataldo |
.000 |
7 |
5 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0-0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
1.000 |
|
Kevin McKenzie |
.000 |
5 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0-0 |
0 |
6 |
1 |
0 |
1.000 |
|
Others |
.200 |
4 |
7 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0-0 |
0 |
27 |
36 |
4 |
.940 |
|
Totals |
.258 |
38 |
1045 |
157 |
271 |
41 |
8 |
10 |
139 |
97 |
132 |
25 |
40-54 |
24 |
790 |
333 |
46 |
.961 |
PITCHING | |||||||||||||||||
Player |
ERA |
AP |
W |
L |
T |
SV |
IP |
H |
R |
ER |
BB |
K |
K/7IN |
HR |
HB |
WP |
BK |
Connor Bishop |
1.16 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
6.0 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
4 |
2 |
2.33 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
Dylan Ellis |
1.81 |
9 |
5 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
54.0 |
44 |
17 |
14 |
17 |
50 |
6.48 |
1 |
1 |
4 |
0 |
Mike DiCato |
2.13 |
11 |
6 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
62.1 |
45 |
26 |
19 |
21 |
41 |
4.60 |
0 |
6 |
2 |
0 |
Rob Machado |
2.35 |
9 |
2 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
38.2 |
21 |
14 |
13 |
19 |
19 |
3.44 |
0 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
Ryan McNeill |
3.37 |
8 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
35.1 |
31 |
20 |
17 |
15 |
24 |
4.75 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Dan Lozeau |
3.67 |
9 |
4 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
42.0 |
44 |
24 |
22 |
16 |
23 |
3.83 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Chris Labriola |
4.20 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
5.0 |
9 |
3 |
3 |
1 |
5 |
7.00 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Chris Foundas |
6.25 |
10 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
15.2 |
20 |
19 |
14 |
13 |
20 |
8.93 |
1 |
6 |
6 |
0 |
Matt Boleski |
7.00 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3.0 |
4 |
3 |
3 |
4 |
3 |
7.00 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
Joe Martini |
7.00 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1.0 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Totals |
69 |
22 |
15 |
3 |
1 |
263.0 |
224 |
129 |
107 |
110 |
187 |
3.98 |
3 |
17 |
15 |
0 |
Medford, MA- The Lexington Blue Sox took a 2-1 series lead with a 4-2 win over the Chiefs at steamy Tufts University on Saturday afternoon.
The Best of Five series continues on Sunday at Tufts when Game Four will be played at 1:30 PM. If the Chiefs force a Game Five, it will be played in Lexington on Monday night.
The Chiefs jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning against Blue Sox starter Matt Karis. Mike Andre drove home Jeff Bercume, who had reached on fielder’s choice, with a RBI single.
The Blue Sox answered and took a 2-1 lead in the top of the second inning when Chiefs starter Dylan Ellis surrendered four singles to Matt McEvoy, Tom Haugh, Anthony Santos and Peter Frates.
The Sox lead went to 4-1 in the fourth inning when Haugh walked, Poling reached on an infield single and Ellis threw Santos’ sacrifice bunt attempt into right field allowing Haugh to score. Santos came around to score on a fielder’s choice.
The Chiefs closed the gap to 4-2 in the bottom of the fifth and threatened for mush more. Macrina drew a walk and Bercume reached on a two base error putting runners on second and third with nobody out. Mike Baillargeon then grounded to Steve Gath at shortstop who caught Bercume trying to go to third as Macrina scored on the play. Andre followed with a line single to right, his second of the game, sending Baillargeon to second. Justin Crisafulli then hit a screaming liner that was bound for the left field corner. Sox third baseman Ross Curley came up with the play of the game when he leaped to make an outstanding grab and recovered in time to double Baillargeon off second to end the inning.
Matt O’Brien worked a scoreless sixth for the Blue Sox and Jesse Santos picked up the save in the seventh.
Ellis went the distance for the Chiefs allowing three earned runs and eight hits while striking out five. Karis picked up the win giving up two runs on six hits and striking out three in his five innings of work.
The Blue Sox will send Drew Brozowski to the mound in Sunday’s Game Four while the Chiefs are expected to counter with Ryan McNeill.