WASHINGTON, PA – The Empire League Series regular games have fully finished and the Series will now go into it’s playoff format. After all games were played, The Road Warrior Black Sox have claimed the number one seed.

Brilliance Sox will earn the second seed of the playoffs while Tupper Lake Riverpigs get third and Saranac Lake Surge get 4th.

The Playoff games will be as followed.

Road Warrior Black Sox will face the Saranac Lake Surge and the Tupper Lake Riverpigs will face the Brilliance Sox.

Playoffs begin Monday September 28th, 2020. All games will be livestreamed as usual on Empire TV.

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WASHINGTON, PA – The Empire League series is coming to an end in a few days before the playoffs begin and the Saranac Lake Surge would take on the first place Black Sox.

Strikeout leader Carlos Canelon would take on the newly acquired Skylar Janisse.

Cory Alexander would welcome Skylar to the Series with a homer over the left field wall. That would be Alexanders first homer of the series.

Black Sox would answer when lead off hitter Derek Reddy would steal third and score on a throwing error by the Surge catcher.

Surge would get another one back in the top of the 2nd inning when Alexis Monge scored on a fielders choice.

This potential playoff matchup would get tied up in the bottom half when Vee Desai hit a sac fly to center to score Frank Podkul. Derek Reddy would follow him with a 2 out base hit to score Pete Yorgen and take a 3-2 lead.

Canelon would only go 2 innings as the Surge look to potentially use him in the playoffs as game 1 starter. He would strike out 2 batters in 2 innings.

A double by Frank Podkul would giver the Black Sox a 4-2 lead in the bottom of the 3rd scoring Jermond Williams.

Skylar Janisse would settle in and post up 4 straight no run innings for the Black Sox as they would take a 6-2 lead into the 6th inning.

The Black Sox would go on to win by a score or 9-3 and claim the number 1 seed heading into the playoffs.

Both teams will play tomorrow for series finale at 11:00 am ET and 3:00 pm ET.

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WASHINGTON, PA –  The final battle of the Adirondacks would take place when the visiting Saranac Lake Surge took on the Tupper Lake Riverpigs.

Donnell Hightower of the Surge would face off against right hander Stephen Cardiello of the Riverpigs.

Things could not have started any worse for the Riverpigs. After a Nicholas Ybarra ejection, starter Jorge Murillo exited the game with an injury and a one run lead for the Surge. Surge would add on 4 more runs on a big double by Nelson Laviosa.

The Surge would take a commanding lead in the top of the 3rd when they score 5 more runs on walks and Riverpigs mistakes to take a 10-1 lead.

Riverpigs would get 2 back in the bottom of the 4th when Jose Zacarias hit a sac fly to left to score Josh Goulet.

Bottom of the 6th the Riverpigs would make a comeback scoring 3 more runs on great hitting by Miguel Molina with 2 outs to make the score 11-8.

David Tiskevics would come in to close it out for the Surge but not until the Riverpigs made it very interested. With bases loaded and 2 outs, Brandon Camargo would single to center to make the game 11-9 but a big running mistake allowed for the Surge to get the second runner coming around to score and end the game.

Both teams will play again tomorrow at 11:00 am ET and 3:00 pm ET for the final 3 games of the season.

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WASHINGTON, PA – The Tupper Lake Riverpigs would take on the Brilliance Sox in todays matchup.

Starting for the Riverpigs is lefty ace Dimitri Nunez facing off against Sean Johnson.

Sox took off hitting in the first inning as they would score one run on 4 hits. Cody Lovejoy got it started with a hit up the more and later scored on a single by Dustyn Macaluso.

Both Starters would cruise through this one as Johnson had 7 strikeouts through 5 and Nunez had only given up 1 run through 5 as this pitchers dual would go into the 6th inning with a 1-0 score.

Dimitri Nunez would come out of the game after 6 innings allowing just 1 run and immediately the Bullpen would allow 3 runs in the top half of the final inning to give the Sox a 4-0 lead on a single by Lovejoy and Reis. They would both join Dustyn Macaluso scoring to add the 3 runs to their lead.

Sean Johnson was stellar in his outing going a complete game shutout allowing just 1 hit and striking out 10 batters and earning another win for the Sox.

Both teams will continue play tomorrow at 11:00 am ET and 3:00 pm ET.

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WASHINGTON, PA – The Saranac Lake Surge would take on the first place Road Warrior Black Sox in todays matchup.

Starting for the Road Warriors is Ken Williams facing the Surge lefty Leo Madrid.

Black Sox strike first in this one when a couple base on balls turned into 4 runs on a base clearing triple by Jermond Williams.

Chris Kwitzer is on a Empire League record pace as he belted yet another home run.

Surge would get on board once again when a bases loaded walk by Cory Alexander scored Alexis Monge. The Black Sox would get out of the jam when Ken Williams struck out Christ Kwitzer with bases loaded and 2 strikes to end the threat.

The Surge would score 2 more in the final top half on base hits by Sid Kumar to score Tyler Hill and Alexis Monge to score Kyle Robinson.

Ken Williams would finish the inning and the game striking out the final batter with the tying run at 2nd base to end the game.

Both teams will continue play tomorrow at 11:00 am ET and 3:00 pm ET.

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