CENTRAL NEW YORK – Though successful in the past, the Jordan-Elbridge softball team is rekindling championship hopes with the way it has marched through much of its opposition.
The state-ranked Eagles improved to 10-1 on the season last Monday against Cato-Meridian with a pitching gem from Alexis DelFavero as it defeated the Blue Devils 7-0.
All that DelFavero allowed was two hits and one walk as, for the most part, she made Cato batters swing and miss on the way to a career-best 15 strikeouts.
J-E scored all of its runs in the first three innings, capped by a four-run second as Erin LaVancha doubled, tripled and got four RBIs. Abby Ahern scored twice to match LaVancha and also drove in a run.
Westhill got its second win of the season over Christian Brothers Academy last Monday afternoon, the Warriors rallying to beat the Brothers 7-5.
Unlike their 22-6 encounter in April, the Warriors had to battle back, scoring four runs in the bottom of the fourth to erase a 2-0 deficit and doing so again after CBA took a 5-4 lead in the sixth.
Nicoletta Scrimale and Alexa Korrie each finished with a pair of hits. Scrimale scored twice, with Tori Milliti adding a triple as she, along with Korrie, Bella Johnson, Sydney Bistrovich and Sarah Balduzzi, scored one run apiece.
This led to Korrie’s tremendous power display in Wednesday’s 23-2 victory over Hannibal. Twice in the game, Korrie stepped to the plate with the bases loaded and, each time, Korrie sent a pitch over the fence for a grand slam.
It was Korrie’s seventh and eighth home runs of the season, all part of an effort where Militi and Hannah Schmitz both got three hits and scored three runs. Balduzzi walked four times and scored each time as Amanda Case also scored three runs, matching Abby Cottrell with two hits.
Then it was Westhill against Solvay on Thursday, and it proved a good one, the Bearcats erasing a mid-game deficit but the Warriors still pulling it out by a score of 4-3.
Three runs in the third and fourth inning had Westhill in front 3-0, but Solvay tied it in the bottom of the fifth, the key blow Susie Overend’s two-run single.
A run in the top of the sixth restored the Warriors’ lead, and Schmitz pitched two scoreless innings to help her team hang on as Korrie hit her ninth home run of the season and Balduzzi also went deep, Cottrell adding an RBI.
On Saturday, Solvay defeated Cazenovia 9-1, scoring all of its runs from the fourth inning onward as eighth-grader Rachel Willsey got two RBIs, as did Delaney Kaszubinski. Gianna D’Eredita scored twice.
Skaneateles climbed near the .500 mark last Monday by piling on the runs in a 17-4 victory over Hannibal, the Lakers batting around in a seven-run second inning to go in front and adding five runs in the top of the fifth.
Taking advantage of seven Hannibal errors, Skaneateles saw Laci Gaidis get two hits, two runs scored and two RBIs. Cydney Pitman, Chelsea Metz, Katie Combs, Ayla Pas’cal, Finn Pas’cal and Reese Gaidis also drove in runs as Metz and Ayla Pas’cal each scored three runs.
Then Skaneateles pulled out a 4-3 decision over Mexico a day later in the most exciting way possible, striking for four runs in the top of the seventh inning to erase the Tigers’ 3-0 advantage.
Carlee Pitman drove in two runs with a double to cut the margin to 3-2, and Natalie Yokom’s single brought home the tying and go-ahead runs. Then Gaidis pitched a scoreless inning in the bottom of the seventh to win it.
The win streak ended Wednesday, Skaneateles falling to Altmar-Parish-Williamstown 21-6, but it rebounded Friday to beat Syracuse City 9-5 helped by four-run rallies in the second and fourth innings.
Pitman had three hits, including a triple, driving in a pair of runs. Combs also had two RBIs as Gaidis, Metz and Ayla Pas’ccal had one RBI apiece.
