THE SAUGUS ADVOCATE – FRIDAY, MAY 28, 2021 Page 19 Meet the 2020-2021 SHS Sachems Varsity Baseball Team The 2020-2021 SHS Sachems Varsity Baseball Team, pictured kneeling, from left to right, are; Mark MacEachern, Sean O’Rourke, Kyle McLaughlin, Jason Casaletto, Kyle Surette, Anthony Macone, and Anthony Cicolini. Back row, from left to right, areH Head Coach Joseph Luis, Drew Gardiner, Ryan Mabee, Nathan Ing, Ryan Anderson, Michael Howard, Matthew MacEachern, Braden Faiella, and Asst. Coach Michael Mabee. Pictured from left to right are, SHS Head Coach Joseph Luis with seniors Kyle McLaughlin, Jason Casaletto, and Kyle Surette, with Assistant Coach Michael Mabee. Sachems Captain Jason Casaletto with Head Coach Joseph Luis. (Advocate photos by Tara Vocino) Late-inning heroics fall short in loss to Swampscott T By Greg Phipps he Saugus High School baseball team has participated in four tight games so far this spring. Unfortunately, the Sachems have ended up on the short end in three of the four matchups. A one-run win over Gloucester and two close, late-inning setbacks to Danvers were followed by a frustrating 3-2 home loss to Swampscott last Thursday at World Series Park. The Sachems worked their way back from an early 2-0 deficit and tied the game in dramatic fashion when Nathan Ing belted a solo homer in the bottom of the seventh inning to send the affair to extra innings. Ing would finish with three hits in the game and Anthony Macone would drive in Saugus’s other run on a second-inning fielder's choice. But the visitors tallied in their half of the 10th frame to come away on top. Another solid pitching effort was wasted for Saugus. Jason Casaletto, who worked seven innings and allowed just two runs (both in the first inning), had good control, walking just one batter and fanning seven. After the game, head coach Joe Luis cited Casaletto’s fine effort and admitted his squad has had its problems generating offense. The Sachems were shut out in the two contests Saugus’s Nathan Ing blasted a game-tying, seventh-inning homer in last Thursday’s 3-2 home loss to Swampscott. leading up to Thursday’s tilt, and they had their chances to tack on more runs against the Big Blue. “We just couldn’t get the big hit,” Luis told the press. “I don’t know how many times we had a runner on third base with less than two outs.” The beginning of this week didn’t trend in a better direction for Saugus, as it was blanked by Masconomet, 100, on Monday and knocked off at Gloucester, the same team the Sachems beaten earlier this spring, by a 10-6 count on Wednesday. Casaletto homered and Kyle McLaughlin drove in three runs against the Fishermen, as the Sachems were able to establish some offense in the loss. Saugus sits at 2-7 overall and plays at home against Peabody on Monday.
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