A no-hitter one day, and a perfect game the next. Such was the course of events for softball teams at Westhill and Solvay as both put together separate gems during the first week of May.

It began last Wednesday when the Warriors, in a 17-0 shutout of Skaneateles, held the Lakers without a hit, the duo of Katie Lobello (four innings) and Melissa Newcomb (three innings) combining on that effort as Newcomb struck out five in her shorter stint.

Lobello, however, was devastating at the plate, hitting a home run and three doubles while setting a career mark with seven RBIs. Nicole Moriarty drove in three runs as part of an 18-hit attack where Newcomb got three hits and three runs scored. Tatiana Wicker added two RBIs as Tess Hogan scored three times and Leah Diefendorf added an RBI.

Just 24 hours later, Solvay played a doubleheader against Hannibal, and in the first of two five-inning games pitching ace Lauren Nichols was perfect – 15 up, 15 down, 10 of them strikeouts – in a 4-0 decision where it was scoreless until the Bearcats netted all of its runs in the bottom of the fourth.

Then Nichols starred at the plate in the second game, a 9-1 victory where she victimized Hannibal with a home run, two singles and five RBIs while netting 10 more strikeouts during her pitching duties. Delana Thomas also had three hits as Ashley Bosco doubled and drove in two runs. Sam Farrugio and Hope Riviera had one RBI apiece.

Wet fields last Monday meant that Solvay and Marcellus would square off on the artificial turf at Onondaga Community College, and that suited the state Class B no. 13-ranked Bearcats just fine as it defeated the Mustangs 11-3.

Marcellus got to Nichols for a pair of first-inning runs. From there, though, Nichols settled down and overcame six hits by registering 14 strikeouts while only issuing a single walk. Jayme Lema and Evelyn Webster led the Mustangs with two hits apiece.

For her part, Mustangs pitchers Laura Finn and Isabel Rodolico gave up just six hits between them, but were hurt by the six errors Marcellus committed. Solvay tied it in the third, and then moved in front with two more runs in the fourth and notched six runs in the fifth inning to get away.

Nichols and Aleah Yaizzo both triple and singled, with Yaizzo earning two RBIs. Maya Martineau also had two hits as she, along with Bosco, joined Nichols in earning single RBIs. Thomas and Caitlin McCann and Delana Thomas both scored a pair of runs.

Westhill went from its no-hitter at Skaneateles to an impressive 8-1 home win over Syracuse on Friday afternoon, doing most of the damage in a seven-run second inning as Lobello doubled twice and Hogan tripled and drove in two runs. Newcomb added three hits as Diefendorf and Dori Klein had one RBI apiece.

And Westhill had enough left on Saturday to top Hannibal 7-4, though it took scoring three runs in the top of the sixth inning to break out of a 4-4 tie and improve the team’s record to 8-4, clinching a Section III Class B playoff berth.

Bishop Ludden had its game against Pulaski on Wednesday rained out, but it would play Friday, at Cato-Meridian, and pull out a 6-2 victory over the Blue Devils despite trailing 2-1 after five innings.

A run in the top of the sixth tied it, and the Gaelic Knights got to Cato pitcher Megan Krieger for four runs in the top of the seventh. Sara Hayes and Bridget Brogan each had two hits, with Hayes driving in two runs. Rachel Martens and Abby Wilkinson had one RBI apiece as pitcher Meghan Wilkinson held the Blue Devils to two hits.

Jordan-Elbridge took a 12-5 defeat to Cazenovia last Tuesday afternoon in a game where it led, 5-0, thanks to a five-run third inning where Libby Baker’s double scored two of those runs, with Mia Arms adding a double and RBI, one of her three hits on the day.

Not sitting on this, the Lakers scored twice in the fourth and then erupted during a 10-run fifth inning, with Hannah Matteson gathering up a double, triple and three RBIs to pace Cazenovia, Libby Baker took the loss for the Eagles.

There was a rematch between J-E and Cazenovia two days later, and the Eagles got even, prevailing 6-4 as it surrendered an early 3-0 lead, only to rebound as, in the bottom of the fourth, it scored twice to erase the Lakers’ 4-3 advantage and tacked on an insurance run an inning later.

Two of Emily Bard’s three hits were doubles as she scored twice and added an RBI. Baker drove in a pair of runs as Mia Arms, Bailey Van Gorden and Annie Altwarg got one RBI apiece and McKayla Rohmer added two hits, also pitching a complete game where she blanked Cazenovia after the fourth inning.