At this point, anyone pitching to Jamesville-DeWitt softball superstar Shayna Myshrall is risking serious damage, as evidenced by the four round-trippers she blasted in last week’s pair of victories.
The state Class A no. 11-ranked Red Rams had to face Fulton last Monday afternoon, which didn’t prove too stressful as it roared past the Red Raiders 15-2.
Myshrall tagged Fulton for a pair of home runs, also getting a single and finishing with six RBIs while also striking out seven in a complete-game pitching effort.
J-D scored in every inning except the third, with Emma White and Andrea Sumida each matching Myshrall’s three-hit total, White driving in two runs. Sydney Linkiewicz and Miriam Zoghby both scored twice.
Then the Rams met Liverpool Thursday afternoon, and Myshrall made the difference in a 9-5 win over the Warriors. Once again, Myshrall hit two over the fence for home runs and, just like with Fulton, she amassed six RBIs.
One of those blasts came in a five-run third inning that helped J-D break the game open. White added a home run of her own and got two RBIs, with Kate Dorazio also driving in a run and Paige Keeler scoring twice.
East Syracuse Minoa started its week with a 3-2 defeat to Syracuse. Shaina Brilbeck mostly pitched well, recording eight strikeouts, but Syracuse got to her for three runs in the top of the fourth inning.
Down 3-0, the Spartans pulled within one in the bottom of the sixth as Natalie Quonce doubled home Morgan Ransom and also scored, but Syracuse pitcher Adonia Wade tossed a scoreless seventh inning to help her side hang on.
ESM had its own game with Fulton on Wednesday, and won a 1-0 thriller where Brilbeck outpitched Red Raiders counterpart Camille Stevenson, striking out eight and allowing just three hits.
Stevenson was great, too, limiting the Spartans to four hits, but in the top of the second ESM got the only run it needed when Holly Carr was hit, reached second and then scored on Franchesca Polcaro’s single.
Other games late in the week involving both J-D and ESM got postponed due to wet, cold weather that returned before both the Red Rams and Spartans would enter a busy stretch early in May.
