Wet field conditions last Monday postponed each local high school softball game except one, with Skaneateles able to take on Jordan-Elbridge and the Lakers putting together an impressive 6-2 win over the Eagles.
Neither team scored until the bottom of the third inning, when J-E put across a run. Then Skaneateles tied it in the fourth and, in the top of the fifth, made its decisive move with four runs off Eagles pitcher Alexis Delfavero.
Lexi Cottrill and Maeve Canty led the Lakers with three hits apiece. Ryley Pas’cal’s pair of hits led to two RBIs, while Tatumn Pas’cal added two hits and an RBI. Hannah Blowers and Natalie Yokom also drove in runs.
Though J-E’s Gabrielle Bard had two hits and an RBI, the Eagles only managed five hits overall against Blowers, who walked seven but made up for it by striking out 10.
Then Skaneateles bashed Hannibal 21-0 two days later, only requiring five innings to evoke the mercy rule as it scored three times in each of the first innings and added 15 runs in the next two frames.
Drawing 13 walks, the Lakers had Cottrill, Tatumn Pas’cal and Ryley Pas’cal each score three runs. Erin Guthrie earned three RBIs, with Cottrill and Ry’ley Pascal driving in two runs apiece and Canty adding an RBI.
J-E won on Thursday, handling Homer 11-2 by scoring runs in each of the first five innings and amassing 18 hits, four each by Delavero and McKayla Rohmer, who combined to score five runs.
Bard doubled twice and drove in two runs to match Delfavero and Rohmer. Ranait McGuire, Mollie Yard and Meghan Whalen drove in single runs as Emma Morrell earned a pair of hits.
That same day,Westhill shut out Altmar-Parish-Williamstown 16-0 in a five-inning mercy-rule game where the Warriors took full advantage of the Rebels’ seven errors.
Abigail Edgar singled, doubled and drove in two runs to lead Westhill’s attack. Sarah Balduzzi and Tatiana Wicker each scored three runs, with Janae Ricks and Ariel Cassidy getting one RBI apiece.
West Genesee had a clash with defending sectional Class AA champion Cicero-North Syracuse postponed last Tuesday, but it did meet Liverpool a day later at Syracuse University’s softball complex.
There, the Wildcats lost, 4-1, to the Warriors, unable to produce anything after Abbey Van Horn drove home Emma Garvey in the top fo the first inning. Liverpool scored all four of its runs in the bottom of the fourth as WG only had four hits off pitcher Cassie Wiggins.
