ONONDAGA COUNTY – All through this season, the Baldwinsville softball team has moved from impressive, lopsided victories to defeats at the expense of the area’s top sides.
The Bees went back to the better end of this spectrum in last Monday’s game at West Genesee, where its offense broke out in the fifth inning of a 16-1 victory over the Wildcats.
WG actually scored in the bottom of the first inning to go up 1-0, but B’ville went up in front with four runs in the top of the third, plus a run in the fourth.
Then an 11-run outburst in the top of the fifth settled the game as Kyrah Wilbur led the charge, finishing with four RBIs.
Emma Johnson went three-for-four, driving in two runs, while Bella Nadzan also had two RBIs. Jordan Martin contributed a pair of hits as Bianca DeSellems pitched and struck out nine, not allowing a hit.
Then the pendulum swung back in the other direction two days later, B’ville taking on Fayetteville-Manlius and absorbing an 8-3 defeat to the Hornets.
DeSellems not only pitched, she contributed two hits at the plate, matching Johnson and Alyssa Dabacz. Mattison Phinney and Ayla Fleming both joined Johnson in the RBI column.
None of this was enough against an F-M side that piled up 16 hits, with every Hornet in the lineup getting at least one hit by game’s end. Ella Keyes and Paige Graves led with three hits apiece as Kaleigh Hamilton and Paige Murphy both got a pair of RBIs.
All of this led to Saturday’s game against Cicero-North Syracuse, a second attempt by the Bees to rein in the undefeated reigning sectional and regional Class AA champions, to whom it lost 11-0 earlier in the month.
At least B’ville got on the board here with single runs in the third and seventh innings as DeSellems and Dybacz drove in the runs, the pair matching two-hit efforts with Phinney and Grace Branshaw.
But C-NS still rolled past the Bees 14-2, with multiple runs in five different innings and three-hit outings from Alayna Harbaugh and Danielle Filapello, who combined for nine RBIs. B’ville’s overall record fell to 5-5.
