THE EVERETT ADVOCATE – FRiDAy, ApRil 21, 2023 Page 19 THE SPORTS WIRE: 127th Boston Marathon results include a total of 35 official finishers from Everett, Malden, Revere & Saugus Revere-Malden baseball game took a lot of work to get played on Monday, in less-than-perfect conditions Who is expected to be next in the high-profile Everett High Football Head Coach post? By Steve Freker I t was certainly not great weather for a baseball game on Monday, Patriots’ Day, with on-and-off rain and drizzle accompanied by occasional downpours with mist and fog. But the runners loved it! There have been Boston Marathons in the past where the Patriots’ Day date may as well have been the Fourth of July with scorching, high 70s temperatures and blazing sun. Or perhaps it was 40 or below, with rain washing out everything along the 26.2mile course. But Monday’s weather was just right: not much sun, temps around 4550 and some intermittent rain keeping runners from overheating along the way. Nearly 50 runners from The Advocate readership area participated in the race and most finished. Here are the local results from Malden, Everett, Revere and Saugus: MALDEN (runner name and finishing time): Patrick Mangan, 3:15:14; Meghan King 3:36:08; Mervl Kaukko, 3:40:17; James Mandar t, 3:50:44; George Sacco, 3:50:47; Kirk Zmjijewski, 3:55.27; Joe LeBlanc, 4:16:20; Matthew Gavin, 4:24.31; Patrick Fitzgerald, 4:32.49; Alexandria Rodrigues, 4:36.24. EVERETT (runner name FINISH LINE: It was a rain-soaked journey for the over 30,000 runners who started the 127th Boston Marathon on “Marathon Monday.” (Courtesy Photo) and finishing time): Augusto De Almeida, 2:53:51; Kasey Boxleitner, 4:01.15; Filippo Mastrocola, 5:10:14; Courtney Meninger, 5:23.18; Peter Bien-Aime, 5:37:19. REVERE (runner name and finishing time): Guillermo Restrepo Posada, 2:52.49; Anayo Osueke, 2:54:44; Chelsea Bishop, 3:06:39; David Gonzalez, 3:28.29; Fernando Perfas, 4:05:16; Alexa Duplisea, 4:07:08; Jessica Fitzgerald, 4:30:58; Daniel Fitzgerald, 4:30:58; Tristan Shepard, 4:40:58; Marcos Santos, 4:50.09. SAUGUS (runner name and finishing time): Michael McLaughlin, 3:13.35; Casey Hyde, 3:14:11; Clyde Hancock, 3:20:48; Danielle Good, 3:27:23; Brett Dipanfilo, 3:37:03; Anthony Lopresti, 4:22:04; Stephen Rappa, 4:27:34; Robert Favuzza, 4:32:04; Christine Digirolamo, 4:32:39; Michelle Cronin, 4:38:35. **** It took a lot to make the 127TH BOSTON MARATHON INCLUDED LOCAL RUNNERS: About 35 runners from the local Advocate readership area finished the race – from Everett, Malden, Revere and Saugus. Their times are listed in this story. (Courtesy Photo) Malden-Revere HS game happen on Monday due to the weather; over 90% of scheduled games were cancelled There were over 200 varsity high school baseball games scheduled to be played on the Monday holiday. Patriots’ Day has been a special day for years on the regular-season high school calendar with most of the games played in the morning, right about the same time as the Boston Marathon. Of the 200 games scheduled for Monday, less than 10 percent of them – only 18 – ended up getting played! One of them was the Greater Boston League matchup between the host Malden High School Golden Tornados and the visiting Revere High Patriots. It was never “Off”... but the Malden-Revere HS baseball game on Patriots’ Day took a lot of work (and communication) to get the players on the field playing. For roughly five hours, offand-on, Malden and Revere athletic directors and coaches kept tabs on the weather, field conditions and numerous other factors (bus times, umpires’ availability) and even the game time, which ended up staying the same: 4:00 p.m. The game ended up being somewhat of a pitcher’s duel with Revere’s Kyle Cummings, a senior, battling against Malden’s Jake Simpson, a junior. Cummings ended up pitching the best game of his threeyear varsity career, scattering three hits, walking just two and striking out a career single-game high of 13 batters. Simpson threw zeroes through the first three complete innings, but a couple of untimely errors cost Malden some unearned runs. Revere won the game, 5-0, but it was still highly valuable to both teams – win, lose or draw (but you can’t “tie” in baseball – as they both avoided the spectre of “The Makeup Game.” Somewhere down the road when teams are rescheduling the game – 91% of them in Mass. did not play on Monday – at least two of them will be recalling why their schedule is not as jampacked as their future opponents’ schedules. **** Revere pitcher threw a gem... just a stone’s throw away from where his late Dad grew up in Malden There was an additional Malden connection in the Revere-Malden baseball game on Monday afternoon. The game was played at Rotondi Field in Malden instead of the usual Malden home field of Pine Banks Park. The park is just a stone’s throw and a couple of streets away from where the late father of the Revere High winning pitcher grew up in Malden. Kevin Cummings, a 1977 Malden High School graduate, who was a standout athlete himself in the late 70s in basketball and Babe Ruth baseball, passed away too soon at only 61 in October 2020. On Monday, Cummings’ son, senior Kyle Cummings, tossed a complete game gem in a 5-0 shutout win over his dad’s alma mater. With 13 strikeouts and only two walks, it was undoubtedly Kyle’s signature game of his varsity career. We are certain Dad was watching over and was very proud on Patriots’ Day. **** Who’s next as Everett High football head coach? Many were shocked to hear the news of now former Everett High football Head Coach Rob DiLoreto resigning abruptly from his post, afSPORTS WIRE | SEE PAGE 20
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