Sports Week in Review, Aug. 20 - Aug. 26

This week, the Lexington Blue Sox continued their quest for an unprecedented fifth consecutive Intercity League championship.

But, in order to make even get a shot at making league history, the Blue Sox needed to land a spot in the championship series. After a first-round bye, Lexington got all it could handle from the Reading Bulldogs in the semifinals.

On Friday night, it took some for the Blue Sox to earn a victory in the second game of a playoff double-header. He went deep late in the game to put the top-seeded Lexington squad ahead in the series.

But the Bulldogs wouldn’t go quietly, as they forced a Game 5 on Monday.

As with the rest of the series, the decisive game was a nail-biter. Lexington earned a with a walk-off squeeze play by Ross Curley. That scored Graham in the bottom of the seventh to send the Blue Sox bench into a frenzy.

On Wednesday night, Game 1 of the final series lived up to expectations, as both the Blue Sox and Andre Chiefs turned in some stellar pitching. However, , holding Andre to three hits and no runs to take the series lead off the bat.

On Thursday, the Blue Sox crept with a breakout offensive performance. They smacked 13 hits and crossed home plate eight times in a decsive seven-run victory. The bottom half of the lineup go 7-for-11 with six runs scored.

The Blue Sox and Chiefs shifted the ICL championship series to Malden for Game 3 on Friday night.