Baseball Roundup: Swampscott rallies late to stay alive

After battling back from a two-run deficit with a pair of runs in the fifth inning, Swampscott scored on a wild pitch in the top of the 10thto beat Lynnfield, 6-5, and stay alive in the in the District 16 Little League loser?s bracket.
?It was one of those games where you hated to see either team lose,” Swampscott manager Joe Caponigro said. “Both teams battled right to the end. We were just fortunate to get a run and then hold them off.”
The game was tied, 1-1, in the third when Swampscott pinch-hitter Matthew McIntire ripped a two-run double. That margin held up until the fourth when Jack Bond belted a two-out grand slam to give Lynnfield a 5-3 lead.
But the lead didn?t hold up as wild pitches allowed Swampscott to tie the game an inning later.
?We battled all game long but just couldn?t get the hit that we needed,” Lynnfield manager Steven Bond said.
Anthony Rakauskas got the win in relief of Cam O?Brien for Swampscott, retiring the final 14 batters.
Winthrop 12, Wyoma 11
Wyoma bolted out to an 8-0 lead in the top of the first but Winthrop rallied for 11 unanswered runs to carry a three-run lead into the sixth. Wyoma?s Billy Norcross? two-run single closed the gap to 11-10 before Shawn Anderson singled home the tying run.
Wyoma eventually loaded the bases with two outs but couldn?t get the go-ahead run home. That missed chance proved costly as Winthrop won the game in the bottom of the sixth on a two-out infield single.
?I was happy that we didn?t go down quietly,” Wyoma manager Rick Anderson said. “They kept fighting and that?s all we could have asked for.”
Babe Ruth 14s
In Babe Ruth competition, the Marblehead 14-year-old team beat Saugus, 18-2, to advance into the District 1 championship game. The Saugus 15-year-old team beat Peabody.Mike Alongi can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter at @m_alongi.