“The conditions were less than favorable for both teams with extremely high wind gusts, however, it was something each team had to contend with”, Lady Cougar Head Coach Brandon Lawson said. Davies led the way with 18 points, followed by Dadson, 13, Alexi Stromsmoe, 10, Alia Nielsen, 6, Palmer and Maddy Pitman, 5 apiece, Abby Grantham, 4, and Taylor Kiemele, Jay Lavalley, Katie Macpherson and Jocelyn Graham, 2 points each.
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That wasn’t an issue in its most recent outing.
The Generals (3-2) jumped out to a three-run lead in the first inning on two hits and a walk. Drinkard knows that the Shoreline Conference is a strong league, but he believes the Warriors will be successful as long as his athletes let the game come to them. “I like where we’re at and I’m excited to see where we go from here”. “We start out slow, that’s kind of been our thing from the get-go”. If something got through, she would get it out of the way for us.
Outlook: Anderson noted a core of returning players, which includes last season’s leading hitter in Nichols, combined with an athletic trio of freshmen in Delaney Wilcox, Angelina Nardolillo and Kristen Davis.
Nowell pitched five innings, struck out two and allowed two earned runs. “He got himself in some deep counts”.
“You could see how important it was to him and how hard of a worker he was”, Smith continued.
With two outs in the inning and two runners on, Joseph Kabbes came up and crushed a homer to left to take a 9-0 lead.
“One of the balls we lost in the lights, then an error where we don’t catch it and touch first base”, NHS coach Jeff Brewer said. When we played them last time, she was running circles around us, but I’m hoping we’re able to slow her down.
“Their future looks very bright this season”.
Cade Horton blasted his first home run of the season, close to 400 feet to straightaway center field, driving in Maga to add some insurance late. Once again, the bats came out in full force in the fourth and fifth innings.
Wingate outfielder Tanner Forry, a junior with a.285 batting average, ranks third in the SAC in home runs with 12 and has 37 RBI in 37 games. Through the first eight games Aldridge has a slugging percentage of.929, but he is far from the only Warhawk driving in runs.
“I was hitting it deep on her”, Fajardo said. “I put some weight on in the offseason, so I was expecting to hit a couple this year”. Valley also has two non-conference contests against New London and one versus Ledyard.
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“I think what we’re going to have to count on is our lower tier guys like our 3 singles and our doubles”, Thomas Harrison said. Cam McDonald, Chance Resetich and Sean Riordan each had two.
