Now it was time for the Jamesville-DeWitt softball team to step back on the diamond, determined to add to its growing championship legacy.
After earning yet another Section III Class A title a season ago, the Red Rams returned most of its lineup for 2019, including pitcher Shayna Myshrall, who was in fine form in last Tuesday’s season opener, a 3-1 road win over Auburn.
Myshrall blanked the Maroons over the first six innings before allowing a seventh-inning run. Still, she limited Auburn to five hits, recording three strikeouts against three walks allowed.
J-D got all of its runs early off Maroons pitcher Morgan Marl, scoring once in the first inning and twice in the top of the second. Kate Dorazio finished with three hits, including a double, driving in a run as Myshrall added an RBI and Andrea Sumida scored twice.
As that went on, not far away was Christian Brothers Academy, who had gone 2-2 in the opening week but was coming off a pair of Saturday defeats to Oneida and Whitesboro.
That brief skid ended at Skanetaeles, with the Brothers handling the Lakers 12-3. A four-run third inning erased an early 1-0 deficit, and CBA got away with five runs in the top of the fifth.
Emily Hall smacked a home run and two other hits, scored three times and finished with three RBIs. Maddy Tallman also got three hits, driving in a pair of runs as Maya Geiss got two RBIs. Abby Benware added a double and RBI. Victoria Hall, Julia Griffith and Natalie Stopyra each scored twice.
CBA won big again on Wednesday, blanking Homer 13-0 on a day where Tallman dominated in the pitcher’s circle and at the plate.
Aside from a two-hit shutout that included eight strikeouts, Tallman went five-for-five at the plate, including a triple, that led to six RBIs, most of them in the fourth and fifth innings as the Brothers piled up 10 runs in those frames to pull away.
Victoria Hall gained three hits, with Emily Hall adding two hits, three runs scored and two RBIs. Griffith drove in a run and Maura Clare Conan scored three times.
All of this slowed up on Friday when CBA lost, 7-3, to Solvay, with two early leads disappearing and the Bearcats using three runs in the top of the fifth from a Caitlin McCann home run to break a 3-3 tie in a game shortened to six innings by rain
Fayetteville-Manlius had its own romp over Skaneateles on Wednesday, the Hornets prevailing 18-1 in large part due to the 14-run rally it put together in the top of the fourth inning, where it batted around twice.
Gracie Bishop and Morgan Napier both hit home runs, Bishop finishing with five RBIs as Napier and Emily Gryczka drove in three runs apiece. Katrina Rivera added two RBIs as every F-M player in the lineup drove in at least one run before it was over.
Then F-M hit big again in Saturday’s 22-9 win over Mexico, Grgyczka getting four hits, two of them doubles, and scoring four runs, matching Rivera, who got three hits. Bishop, Napier, Lily Fish and Paige Murphy contributed two hits apiece.
East Syracuse Minoa continued its challenging start by facing Liverpool on Thursday afternoon at Onondaga Community College’s complex, the Spartans taking a 7-3 defeat to the Warriors.
A fourth-inning run by ESM tied it, 1-1, but Liverpool countered with a run in the bottom of the fourth and then tacked on five runs in the fifth and sixth innings. Shaina Brilbeck took the loss as Gillianne McCarthy had a hit and run scored.
Back on Monday, while other games were postponed due to early-day rains, Bishop Grimes did play against Fabius-Pompey and lost, 20-5, to the defending Section III Class D champion Falcons.
In two games against F-P, Grimes gave up 45 runs, but in the second outing Becca Vinciquerra, McKenna Squier, Sarah Falgiatano, Mary Kate Tweedale and Amelia Hafner each scored a run for the Cobras.
