The Danvers baseball team advanced to its third straight North sectional final with a 6-2 win over Burlington Thursday afternoon at Fraser Field.
The Falcons, winners of back-to-back North titles, will face off against Northeastern Conference foe Gloucester at a time to be determined.
Burlington took an early 1-0 lead in the first, but Danvers came back in the second. Anthony Olszak drove home the tying run with a groundout, and a wild pitch brought home the go-ahead run. The Falcons piled on in the third, scoring two runs on Jordan DeDonato’s single. An error brought in one more. An error made it 6-1 Falcons.
Justin Roberto earned the win on the mound for Danvers.
SOFTBALL
Dracut 1, Danvers 0
The full afternoon of pitchers’ duels at Breed finished with the best performance of them all, as Dracut’s Ryley White tossed a perfect game to take down Danvers in the Division 2 North semifinal. Daria Papamechail was the tough-luck loser for the Falcons.