THE SAUGUS ADVOCATE – FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 2023 Page 7 World Series Park gets ready to open its 19th season (Editor’s Note: The following info is from a press release issued by World Series Park this week.) T his year will be the nineteenth season for World Series Park. “Our fi rst eighteen seasons were incredible, Park Superintendent Bob Davis said. “The success of our endeavor can be measured in the amount of games (over 250 in 2022) played on our fi eld and the opportunity World Series Park aff ords Saugus young people to play baseball on a fi rst class fi eld,” Davis said. “We’ve come a long way since we built the fi eld in 2004. We installed lights at the end of the 2021 season and hosted 52 night games last season,” he said. “Thanks very much to all of our sponsors and to those who made donations over the years. Without your support World Series Park wouldn’t have been possible.” Highlights of the 2022 season included hosting the following: three AAU Baseball tournaments and the Commonwealth Amateur Baseball League playoffs and championship game. They also hosted all Saugus High varsity home games, a state high school tournament game, a large number of AAU Baseball games, a Saugus American Legion game, North Shore Baseball League games and Commonwealth Amateur Baseball League games. In past seasons they’ve hosted state and district Babe Ruth tournaments, Special Olympics, TargetCancer fundraisers, a Multiple Sclerosis fundraiser, Commonwealth Amateur Baseball League tournaments, Coaches vs. Cancer tournaments and a Veterans/ Military Appreciation Day. A full schedule of games is planned for 2023, starting the last week in March and going through September. The fi rst Saugus High home game is April 5 against Northeast Metro Tech. The public is welcome to attend all games. There is no charge and plenty of parking. The COVID-19 Update Town reports 8 newly confi rmed cases; no new deaths By Mark E. Vogler T here were eight newly confirmed COVID-19 cases in Saugus over the past week through Wednesday (March 22). The new cases reported by the state Department of Public Health (DPH) over the past week increased the overall total to 10,587 confi rmed cases since the outbreak of the global pandemic in March of 2020, according to Town Manager Scott C. Crabtree. This week’s total was a decrease of two from the number of newly confi rmed cases reported last week. There were no new COVID-19-related deaths over the past week, as the death toll remained at 110. “Our hearts and prayers An aerial view of a night game at World Series Park (Courtesy Photo to The Saugus Advocate by Jim Harrington) go out to those families affected by this health pandemic,” Crabtree said.
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