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Malden Baseball tops Lynn English, Revere and wins Serino Classic title, D’Anna is Tournament MVP; First in for Tornados AT Revere in more than a decade
By Steve Freker
It may have been a vacation on the calendar, but there were no breaks for the Malden High School Golden Tornado Spring Teams.
Malden High Boys Volleyball topped Everett in a set sweep, 3-0, at the Finn Gym in Malden and then followed up with another big win, 3-1, this week on Tuesday, also at home.
Malden Volleyball got some fine performances from Tornadoes Hikaru Tao, James Li and Gray Chen. “They all played very consistently and very well,” said Malden head coach Dan Jurkowski. “It was a team effort, and those guys were the leaders against Somerville.”
The win lifted Malden to 7-3 overall, 4-2 in the Greater Boston League at the midpoint of the season. The Tornados were set to host GBLer Chelsea on Wednesday, April 29 at 5:15 p.m. at the Finn Gym, Malden High School.
Next week, two more home games, Monday, May 4 hosting Lynn Classical and Wednesday, May 6, home versus leaguer leader and undefeated (8-0) Revere. Both games are at 5:15 p.m. starts.
Malden Baseball tops Revere, Lynn English & wins Serino Classic
Malden High Baseball finished off a successful stretch of games with a comeback win on the road over Revere, 6-3 on Monday this week. It was the first time Malden had beaten Revere— on the Patriots home field— in over a decade!
Senior Captain Billy Gavin (3-1, 1.27 ERA) was solid on the mound, pitching into the seventh inning, scattering 4 hits and striking out 5. None of Revere’s 3 runs were earned as Malden made a whopping six errors defensively behind him, but he stayed cool and worked out of several jams.
Malden fell behind, 3-1, and it looked gloomy before the Tornados erupted for 5 big runs to take a 6-3 lead in the top of the 6th.
The remarkable part is that the two biggest hits were the very first hits of the respective players’ varsity careers.
Freshman Arthur Sewell led off the inning by hammering a long double— his first-ever varsity base hit— to deep left field over the head of the fielder. Sophomore Devin Otero Milonopolous (3-for-4) followed with an infield single. The runners moved up on a groundout by sophomore Nick D’Anna and senior captain Ryan McMahon walked to load the bases.
Sophomore Davante Layne then drew a second consecutive walk to force in Sewell with a run to make it 3-2, Revere, and then came one of the biggest hits of the season.
Sophomore Kendrick Noelsaint had come into the game as a replacement the inning before and stepped to the plate in only his second at bat of the varsity season. A lefty batter, he swung and missed at the first pitch, but on the second pitch, he delivered bigtime, stinging a hard grounder down the first base line just inches inside the bag. It went for a double and cleared the bases— the eventual game winning hit— as Malden went up, 5-3.
Noelsaint then scored on an RBI single by sophomore pinch hitter Jaylen Fuentes Rivera to make it 6-3 Malden.
When Gavin used up all of his allowed pitch count pitches in the bottom of the 7th, senior McMahon came on to shut the door with a strikeout and groundout which he fielded himself.
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Gavin pitched another gem and got some more relief help from McMahon in a key, 7-4 win at home over Lynn English on April 20.
Sophomore Davante Layne (2-for-3, 2 RBIs, 3 stolen bases), senior captain T.J. Lymch (2-for-2, 2 RBIs, 4 stolen bases), sophomore Nick D’Anna (2-for-3, 2 runs scored, 2 stolen bases) and McMahon (1-for-3, 2 runs scored, 1 stolen base) led the Tornado offense.
Seniors Jackson Tourkantonis (2-0) and T.J. Lynch split the pitching duties and sophomore Nick D’Anna (2-for-3, 3 RBIS) led the way at the plate for Malden in a 12-2 win over Greater Lawrence as Malden won the 12th Annual Christie Serino Baseball Classic for the 3rd straight year.
D’Anna, who also went 3-for-4 with a home run and 5 RBIs in a semifinal win over East Boston, was named 2026 Serino Classic Most Valuable Player.
