At least for one day, the Baldwinsville softball team showed that Cicero-North Syracuse does not have a clear, untroubled path to yet another Section III Class AA title.
The Bees broke out its bats and build a big early lead and held off the Northstars’ late charge to earn a 14-8 victory.
C-NS had blasted B’ville 16-0 earlier this season, but here the Bees tagged Ariana Corasaniti for five runs in the first inning and two more in the second to gain a 7-0 advantage.
As if that wasn’t enough, a seven-run outburst in the top of the fourth made it 14-0. By now, Alyssa Dabacz had a home run as she and Kaycee Hawk both got four RBIs, with Emma Johnson going five-for-five and driving in two runs. Madison Ascioti, Kayla Young, Chloe Branshaw and Taylor Tripodi had one RBI apiece.
Staked to that big lead, Young saw half of it go away before Tripodi pitched the seventh inning to win it. Francesca LaRobardiere’s home run and three RBIs led C-NS as Alayna Harbaugh got three hits and drove in two runs.
When C-NS visited Fayetteville-Manlius last Monday afternoon, wet conditions on its normal field led to an improvised diamond at the F-M Turf Stadium.
Unfazed by this, C-NS battered F-M as it scored three runs in the first inning, broke out for eight runs in the top of the second and put away the Hornets 16-0.
Corasaniti got three of her team’s 18 hits, including a double, while also limiting F-M to one hit in a complete-game shutout. Brandi Feeney’s pair of triples led to three RBIs, with Harbaugh also driving in three runs. Brooke Nicolaos had four RBIs.
Meanwhile, B’ville faced Rochester Mercy and prevailed 3-1, scoring in the first inning and answering Mercy’s lone run in the second with one of its own.
It stayed 2-1 until a sixth-inning insurance tally helped Kayla Young, who in her complete-game effort limited Mercy to five hits while earning 11 strikeouts. Johnson hit a solo home run, one of her two hits on the day. Mattison Phinney singled, doubled and scored twice.
Liverpool was unable to face West Genesee last Monday due to field conditions, and it got moved to Wednesday afternoon at Syracuse University’s home diamond.
But that didn’t discourage the Warriors, who recorded an impressive 4-1 win over the Wildcats as pitcher Cassie Wiggins held WG to just four hits and blanked them after the first inning.
Still trailing 1-0, Liverpool waited until the bottom of the fourth, when it scored all of its runs. Emma Terzini earned an RBI as she was the lone Warriors player with two hits. Makayla Sweeting and Helen Nash each scored runs, as did Alicia Nash and Sophia D’Arcangelis.
As a follow-up on Thursday afternoon, Liverpool defeated Oswego 15-4, tearing through Buccaneers pitching for nine runs in the first inning and three runs in the second to establish an insurmountable margin. A game with Marcellus a day later was rained out, to get made up this Thursday afternoon.
Then Liverpool made it three in a row on Saturday, avenging an earlier loss to F-M in a 15-8 decision where the Hornets were quite generous, committing 11 errors.
But the Warriors also had everyone in its lineup record at least one hit, 19 in all, as D’Arcangelis went four-for-four, scoring three runs, while Helen Nash had three hits and four runs scored. Alicia Nash doubled twice.
Meanwhile, C-NS swept two games on Saturday over Section II foes, beating Ballston Spa 10-7 as Nicolaos and LaRobardiere both hit home runs and got three RBIs apiece to help the Northstars overcome a 5-3 deficit, with three runs in the top of the sixth breaking a 7-7 tie.
Later in the day, the Northstars topped Averill Park 7-4, again tied late and again breaking out of it, this time with two runs in the sixth and seventh innings after it was 3-3. Wameling tripled and Nicolaos scored twice as Corasaniti pitched a complete game.
Baldwinsville did not have the same success in its own Saturday twin bill, dropping both sides of a doubleheader to Oneida by scores of 3-2 and 6-1.
In the opener, Dybacz’s two-run single in the top of the second put the Bees in front 2-0, and it held up until the Indians scored a run in the sixth and then scored twice in the bottom of the seventh to pull it out, the key blow Olivia Friend’s two-run double.
The second game had B’ville surrendering two runs in the first, second and fifth innings, only breaking up the shutout when Johnosn drove home Asicoti in the sixth.. All told, the Bees had just three hits off Oneida pitcher Kyra Sholtzhauer.
