RIMINI HOLDS LEAD IN ITALIAN LEAGUE

Telemarket Rimini is on top of the Italian Baseball League standings with a 7-2 record after beating Danesi Nettuno twice in a three-game series. The series stood at one game apiece before Rimini won the rubber match, 4-3, thanks to an eighth-inning double by Ivanon Coffie that drove in Daniel Gonzalez with the winning run. Gonzalez scored twice in the contest, while Coffie had two RBIs. Reliever Michel Quattrini picked up the win for Rimini with four no-hit innings out of the bullpen, while Nettuno’s Carlos Richetti took the loss after giving up all four Telemarket runs.


Nettuno is now 5-4 for the season and in a four-way tie for second with Fortitudo Bologna, Montepaschi Grosseto and defending champion T&A San Marino. Bologna took two of three games against San Marino, including a 16-5 pasting in the third match of their series. Fortitudo racked up eight runs in the sixth inning of that one as Joseph Mazzuca went 3-for-5 with a homer and five RBIs. Juan Carlos Infante also slugged a grand slam homer for Bologna as six different players scored twice.