2021 MIAA GAME RECAP: No. 11 Melrose Sweeps Burlington to Remain Unbeaten

By Kevin J. Stone One week ago today, Burlington and Melrose began a pivotal Middlesex League matchup at Burlington High School. Almost a week later, on Wednesday afternoon, the game was concluded, after a lightning delay halted the original contest, as Melrose led 10-7 with 5:11 remaining on the clock. https://twitter.com/kstone06/status/1397708526584225794 After the teams had already played their regularly scheduled second meeting on Saturday (a 16-2 Melrose win), the final five minutes and eleven seconds of the first game was finished with the Red Raiders closing it out, 10-8, thus completing their two-game sweep. Melrose is now 8-0 and officially the Freedo