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Danvers Goes Down Swinging; Masco Claims D2 North Title
The Danvers High baseball club lost a tough 5-2 contest Sunday afternoon against Masconomet in Lowell and is out of the playoffs.
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It all came down to the seventh inning.
The Falcons opened up a small lead early in the game but the Chieftains whittled away at those two runs before blasting in three runs in their last at bat.
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After seven, it was 5-2, Mascoconomet. Danvers ends the season on a 20-3 record.
Rafael Tylus took the mound for Danvers at LeLacheur Park Sunday while both runs came in the bottom of the second for the Falcons: on a balk and an RBI single by A.J. Couto that brought home Joe Olszak.
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The Chieftains then rallied back for a run in the third and again in the sixth to tie it up at two prior to the three-run half in the top of the seventh.
The Falcons first blanked Tewksbury, 5-0, defeated Reading, 7-6, in extra innings, and then shut out Belmont, 6-0, leading up to the Division II North Final on June 9.
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