HARRISON – The No. 8 Boothbay Dodgers knocked off the first-place West Paris Westies, 3-2, in a first-round Men’s Senior Baseball League playoff upset at Field of Dreams.

Dodgers starter Steve Curtin pitched into the seventh inning, giving up seven hits and two runs and getting his second playoff victory. He also pitched a complete game last week against the Indians.

The Westies notched the first run of the game in the third when Kelvin Decato doubled and was driven in by Mark Hreben.

Jerod Verrill led off the fourth with a double, but the next three batters flew out to end the inning.

The Dodgers tied the game in the top of the fifth on a towering home run to left center field by John Riitano. In the bottom of the fifth, the Westies scored their second run on a single by Wes Smith, who stole second, and another single by Brian Cox.

Rusty Klobas came up with a bases-loaded single to center in the sixth, scoring Ethan Ogilby and Harry Dwyer to give the Dodgers a 3-2 lead.

Cornell Knight came in to pitch for the Dodgers with one out in the seventh and runners on second and third. He was able to shut the door on the Westies with a strikeout and a groundout.

The Westies led off both the eighth and ninth with singles before Knight stemmed the tide.

White Sox KO Rockies

AUBURN – The White Sox defeated the Rockies, 7-2, on Sunday morning in Men’s Senior Baseball League action at Pettingill Park.

The Sox scored three runs in the third inning, two in the fourth and two more in the eighth.

Steve LaBossiere was 3-for-3 with two walks. Several rallies by the Rockies were quickly halted by hard-hit balls resulting in inning-ending double plays.

Winning pitcher Sean Cheetham went five innings, followed by set-up man Marc Gosselin. LaBossiere fired the last three frames. Brodeur was the only repeat hitter for the Rockies.