LIVERPOOL – Two weeks in the area high school softball season has already featured two showdowns between Cicero-North Syracuse and Liverpool, with the same result on each occasion.
They just beat the rain in last Friday’s encounter at Liverpool, where the Northstars, led by the bat of Giana Wameling and the arm of Cassidy Ormond, shut out the Warriors 7-0.
Unlike the 11-4 encounter they had on May 1 at the Gillette Road complex, C-NS never would let Liverpool get on the board despite a host of opportunities.
Ormond gave up five hits, walked two and hit two other batters, yet stranded runners throughout the game and had plentiful run support, with Wameling as the catalyst.
Four times, Wameling went to the plate against Cassie Wiggins and Mackenzie Frani, and it led to a triple, double and two singles, plus a pair of RBIs.
Liverpool did hold Danielle Filapello without a hit after she got a second-inning grand slam in the first encounter, but Riley Barrett and Nicolette Kasch both scored twice, Kasch joining Alayna Harbaugh, Haley Campanello and Hannah Mingle in driving in runs.
Of the Warriors’ five hits, two were by Haley Miles, with single hits credited to Sarah Miles, Emma Terzini and Sophia D’Arcangelis.
Just 48 hours later after that first meeting with C-NS, the Warriors hosted Oneida and proved quite impressive, both with the bats and with Wiggins in the pitcher’s circle during a 6-1 victory over the Indians.
Oneida had, back in 2019, won the Section III Class B championship and gone all the way to the state title game, but had sustained heavy roster turnover in the two years since.
Wiggins was effective against the Indians’ new-look lineup, allowing just one run and four hits while striking out nine before Frani pitched the last inning in relief.
A pair of runs in the third inning put Liverpool in control as it ultimately totaled nine hits, two each by Terzini, D’Arcangelis, Gracie Zankowski and Haley Miles. Lauren Ragonese scored a pair of runs and added an RBI.
