Big fourth inning leads to Cougar softball win over Wolverines

PHIL DI VECE News Contributor
Fri, 05/24/2019 - 5:15am
Wolverine catcher Farrah Casey catches the throw to the plate but too late to get Dirigo’s Abby Stevens in the fourth inning. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper
Kateleen Trask on third base watches as Wolverine pitcher Sydnie Thayer delivers a pitch in the first game of a twin bill with Dirigo. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper
Kelsey Jones applies the tag to Dirigo’s Megan Fletcher at second base. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper
Makayla Bailey led off the fifth inning with a single but was left stranded on third base. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper

Katie Morse homered and doubled leading visiting Dirigo to a 21-3 softball win over Wiscasset Middle High School in the first game of a Mountain Valley Conference double header Thursday.

Morse’s solo blast came in the fourth inning, with the ball carrying over the left field fence. The Cougars scored eight runs in the inning to race ahead 16-2.

In the first inning Farrah Casey, Makayla Bailey and Joanna Collins all had base hits but the Wolverines failed to score.

Both of Wiscasset’s runs came in the second. Latisha Wright walked and Kelsey Jones singled. Both girls scored on a flyball driven deep to right field that bounced out of the fielder’s glove.

Dirigo’s Megan Fletcher had an RBI double in the fourth inning. Alexa Perrault doubled as well.

Kateleen Trask led off the home half of the fourth inning by lining a single to left field. After advancing to second and third, she scored on Thayer’s sacrifice fly to right field.

The Cougars scored five more runs in the fifth and final inning, with both teams agreeing in advance to limit the games to five innings. 

In the last inning, Casey, the Wolverines’ catcher, made a nice play tagging out the Cougar player who tried to stretch an inside the park triple into a home run. Jones made the throw to the plate enabling Casey to make the tag. In the home half of the inning Bailey led off with her second base hit of the game. She made it to third but the Cougars turned a double-play ending the game.

Ashley Perrault picked up the win on the mound for Dirigo. Thayer went the distance for WMHS.  

Mustangs rule the day

Monmouth Academy improved its MVC softball record to 7-4 Wednesday afternoon with a win over WMHS. The Mustangs had a big first inning scoring 11 runs. The Wolverines’ only run came in the second inning after Sydnie Thayer singled, stole second and third and scored on a pass ball.

Makayla Bailey started and pitched two innings for the Wolverines. Thayer was brought in to relieve in the third and Joanna Collins took the mound to pitch the fifth and final inning. The game was called due to the 12-run mercy rule.

The Mustangs added six runs in the second, eight in the third, and four more in the fourth inning.

Coach Gordon Campbell and the Wolverines will finish the season next week with two away games vs. Carrabec and Oak Hill.

 

 

 

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