Generals 5 Mariners 2

 Hamilton beat Manchester-Essex 5 to 2 on Tuesday.

Rams-5, Chiefs-3

 Rams win Monday night in Ipswich. The 2 teams will finish out their regular seasons Wednesday night in Rowley.

Rockport sweeps DH at Beverly

 Townies closed out the regular season with a sweep of the Giants in the double header at Beverly on Sunday 7/28 behind a strong nite on the mound for Rockport.  

Game 1: Rockport 4 Beverly 2. Kyle Beal with another outstanding performance going 6 strong innings with Sam MacDowell closing it out.

Game 2: Rockport 6 Beverly 0 as veteran Derick MacDowell shut out the Giants.

Rams 6 Mariners 1

 Going down swinging 

By Tyler Rourke

» Correspondent

ROWLEY — The Rowley Rams continue to climb the ITL standings after defeating the Manchester Essex Mariners on Wednesday night.

Following a darkness shortened tie against the same opponent on Tuesday, the Rams picked up a 6-1 victory, inching closer to .500 at 8-9-1 on the season. They continue to put pressure on the Mariners, who are right in front of them in the standings at 11-6-1.

“You know, sometimes the hits just don’t go your way, but you got to tip your hat to (Rams’ pitcher Jake) Baressi; he’s a great player,” said Manchester’s Alex Ray. “I have a lot of confidence in our players and we’ll definitely bounce back.”

The aforementioned Baressi was terrific in Rowley’s win to back up an elite offensive performance from his squad. Tossing all seven innings, he only allowed one run and had six strikeouts.

“Jake tends to keep other lineups in check; he threw the ball really well,” said Rowley head coach Jeff Wood. “This was a big win for us. This game was a lot more important to us than it was to them.”

There was plenty of offense to go around Wednesday night for Rowley, and it didn’t wait long to put runs on the board. The second inning is where things got started for the Rams, as this is where they did most of their damage.

Ty Gilmore kicked things off with a walk, but wasn’t pleased with having just first base. He stole second and third on consecutive pitches putting himself in scoring position with no outs.

Curtis Putnam was then hit by a pitch and stole second himself. After one more walk to Marc Wood, Rowley’s ninth batter and first year player, Jack Germinara came to the plate. He hit a bases clearing triple that would start the Rams’ surge.

“He’s a first year player, he’s worked really hard. He’s played some really good baseball this summer and he got us off and running today,” Jeff Wood capitalized on Germinara’s batting performance.

Dmitri Hunt capped off the scoring in the second inning for Rowley with an RBI single to right that drove in Germinara following his triple.

Three scoreless innings later for both ball clubs, Rowley struck again in the fifth.

Rich Williams led things off with a double, and directly after that Tim Cashman had one for himself sending Williams to score. Joe White then reached first on a fielder’s choice, where Manchester smartly got the lead runner out at third. History then repeated itself because like in the second inning, Ty Gilmore earned himself a walk, Curtis Putnam was hit by a pitch, and to wrap it up Marc Wood was walked as well which forced White in.

This all was against threeseeded Manchester Essex, a very talented squad, who just weren’t able to pull one out tonight.

The Mariners’ lone run came in the sixth inning, where they looked to use some of their “Mariner Magic” as the players call it.

For them, Thomas Connors started the inning off promisingly with a single. Then E.J. Field reached first on a fielder’s choice, and immediately stole second. Craig Carter eventually drove in Field with an RBI single, which wound up being the visitors’ lone run.

Manchester Essex is off until next Tuesday when it hosts first place Hamilton at 5:45 p.m.

Draw in Essex

The game ended due to darkness with the Rams and Mariners knotted at 3.

Brett Moore went 6 strong innings for Manch

Rockport 17 Ipswich 5

 Townies beat the Chiefs Monday nite, 7/22 in Ipswich 17-5 with the bats of Jack Sperry, Jameson Kamm, and Will Cahill leading the way; all with great nites at the plate. 

Rockport sweeps DH vs Ipswich

 Rockport wins both games of DH vs Ipswich at Evans Field Sunday, July 21st

Game 1: 4-3 walk-off win behind a strong outing by Warren Adams after falling behind 3-0 in the first inning. 

Game 2: Kyle Beal with a CG NO HITTER gem in a 7-0 win.

With both wins Rockport improves to 10-6-1 on the season.

Next Townies game - Monday July 22nd @ Ipwsich.

Rowley 6 Rockport 0

 Townies lose 6-0 at Rowley Wednesday nite 7/17. 

Again Mariners 5 Giants 4

 Tate Ostrowski worked around multiple errors to pitch a complete game leading Manchester-Essex over Beverly 5 to 4. The Mariners were trailing 4 to 2 in the 5th when 3 runs came across on big hits from Caulin Rogers, EJ Field, Tommy Connors (triple) and Craig Carter as well as a deep sac fly from Mike Quill.

Brennan Frost went the distance for Beverly and added a double that scored 2 runs. Luke Macdonald had a big RBI single in the 5th.

Mariners 5 Giants 4

 Beverly jumped out to a 3 to 0 lead after 2 innings. A 4th inning Bradley McCaffery home run extended the lead to 4 to 2. The Mariners took a 5 to 4 lead in the 6th and held on. Matt Smith started (1ip 3k), Jack Shaw (3ip 3k) and Ryan Marques (3ip 7k win) pitched for the Mariners. Caulin Rogers and Matt Smith had 3 hits while James McKenna added 2 hits. Andy Brown had 2 hits for Beverly. Will Corkum pitched well for the Giants going 6 innings and allowing 2 earned runs.

TOWNIES 2 Rowley 1

Townies top the Rams 2-1 Sunday 7/14 at Evans Field. 

Rockport sweep DH with Beverly

 Rockport wins both games in the twin bill vs Beverly at Evans Field Fri July 12th. 10-0 and 11-4. 

Mariners over Chiefs 7-0

Mariners improve to 9-5.

Walk off in Essex

Mariners win 4-3 in the bottom of the 7th over the Townies when a towering infield fly from Brendan Chauret fell scoring EJ Field from second.

Jack Shaw went 6 innings 6k 1 unearned run for Manchester-Essex.

Chauret 2 rbi and Cory Burnham 2 rbi both had good days at the plate.

 

Sunday night baseball Mariners 1 Townies 0

Tate Ostrowski pitched a 1 hit 14k shut out to lead the Mariners over the Townies 1 to 0.

Caulin Rogers had 2 hits and the lone rbi on a 4th inning clutch single scoring Matt McKenna

Brendan Chauret 2 hits and Cory Burnham 1 hit had the other hits for Manchester-Essex. Keady Seagel had the Rockport hit.

Mariners 1 Townies 0

 Mariners beat Townies 1-0 Sunday July 7th at Evans Field.

Tonight’s Game Rescheduled

 Ipswich at Manchester/Essex is rescheduled to July 11th. Happy 4th !

Mariners 8 Chiefs 4

 Brett Moore picked up the win last night (6ip 9k) for the Mariners. The score was 4 to 2 into the 5th before the Mariners pulled away. Caulin Rogers had 3 hits, Matt McKenna and Tommy Connors both added two hits while rookie Matt Smith crushed a double.