WMHS softball

Final home game ends in 15-0 loss

PHIL DI VECE, News Contributor
Mon, 05/22/2017 - 7:45pm
Stephanie Jones, left, and Lindsey Gordon before the start of Wiscasset Middle High School’s final home game. Jones is the Wolverines’ only senior player. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper
Stephanie Jones had her team’s only hit against Carrabec, a first inning triple. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper
August Moore loosens up between innings for WMHS. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper
Paige Adams drew a walk in the second inning against Carrabec. At right is Wolverine Coach Gordon Campbell. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper

Senior Stephanie Jones tripled in her final home game but the Wolverines were shut out 15-0 by Carrabec High School in Mountain Valley Conference softball play Monday afternoon.

Jones’s blast to left center field came with two away in the home half of the first inning. She also made a nifty fourth inning catch on a fly ball hit deep to left field. Jones and other senior athletes will be recognized at WMHS’s sports banquet.

The Cobras entered the game ranked fifth in the MVC standings. Wiscasset Middle High School at 2-10 was ranked 11th at the start of the game. Both teams were set to wrap up the regular season on Wednesday, May 24. The Wolverines were scheduled to travel to Farmingdale to play Hall-Dale.

Wiscasset’s August Moore pitched four innings before being relieved in the fifth by Sydnie Thayer. The game was called at the end of five innings, under the mercy rule. Samantha Lebeau went the distance on the mound for Carrabec. Bailey Dunphy led off the game with a triple for the visitors and scored the first run on a  ground out by Lebeau. The Cobras added two more runs in the second inning and Dunphy doubled in another run in the third.

With one out in the home second, Paige Adams walked and Lebeau then hit Leah Potter, putting Wolverine runners on first and second. Unfortunately, the Wolverines left both runners on base. Carrabec added nine more runs when it batted around the order in the fourth inning. Dunphy started the onslaught with an RBI single. Mackenzie Baker then drove in two runs with a bases loaded base hit. Ashley Cates, the designated hitter, and Lebeau each had two RBI’s as well.

The Cobras capped the afternoon off with two more runs in the final inning. Wiscasset’s batters went down in order in the third, fourth and fifth innings.

Wolverines 27, Mt. Abram 16

Moore picked up her second win of the season when WMHS defeated Mt. Abram on the road 27-16 on May 15.

Farrah Casey drove in two runs for the Wolverines and Thayer had an RBI base hit. Many of the Wolverines’ runs came from walks followed by alert base running by Stephanie Jones, Lindsey Gordon, Maeve Blodgett and Moore who reached home on passed balls and wild pitches.

 

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