Seymour 10; Woodland 9

The Seymour softball team won a 10 – 9 slugfest at Woodland Friday to finish the regular season at 15 – 5.
 
​“They are a good team and it’s a nice win,” Seymour coach Ken Pereiras said of defeating Woodland. ​“We didn’t play well yesterday and it was good to come back and hit the ball.”

The Wildcats did it with infield hits and blistering shots to the outfield. Eight of the nine starters had at least one hit. 

The game started with two runs in the top of the first. 

Senior captain Amanda Willette (1 – 3) walked and scored on junior Stephanie Burt’s (1 – 3) deep triple to right field. 

Freshman Carissa Wasikowski singled in Burt.

Junior Maggie Crocamo set the tone for herself with a leadoff triple to deep left field in the top of the second inning.

Photo: Eliot Schickler“It was just a good pitch to hit and I basically killed it,” Crocamo said.

Overall, Crocamo was 4 – 4 at the plate with one RBI.
 
​“I went out there for my team and I knew we needed hits,” Crocamo said. ​“We really wanted to win, especially after what happened yesterday.”
 
One out later, freshman Grace Nisbet hit an infield single, but senior Kellee Burns remained at third. 

Willette plated Burns with an infield single to shortstop. 

Nisbet and Willette moved to third and second bases, respectively, on a wild pitch and junior Kim Ferris (1 – 3) drove in Nisbet with a sacrifice fly to center field.

Seymour added three runs in the third with junior Kelly Mitchell starting things with an infield single to shortstop. Emily Coyne then drilled a double to left to plate Mitchell.
 
​“It was my kind of pitch, right down the middle,” Coyne said.

Crocamo then plated Coyne with a single up the middle.

Courtesy runner Burns scored next, off a single hit by Nisbet. 
 
These runs were important because Woodland scored one run each in the first three innings off righty Wasikowski. 

An error to start the bottom of the third didn’t help Wasikowski and she then gave up two hits before Pereiras pulled her and moved her to right field. 

She ended up allowing three runs, two earned, on seven hits with a walk and two strikeouts.
 
Pereiras moved Nisbet from right to left field, took out senior left fielder Kim Tirita and brought in sophomore Kelly Ferris to relieve Wasikowski. 

Ferris was helped when her older sister Kim threw out senior tri-captain Katie Lembo (3 – 4) at third with Coyne applying the tag on senior tri-captain Kate Alfieri’s fielder’s choice grounder to shortstop. The southpaw then struck out the next two batters to avoid further damage.
 
The Wildcats added two in the fifth, starting with Crocamo’s single up the middle. Burns scored on sophomore pinch hitter Brianna Donnarummo’s (2 – 2) triple over the left fielder’s head.
 
​“I just kept my head down and made contact,” Donnarummo said. ​“I kept my eye on the ball and swung.”
 
Nisbet drove in Donnarummo on a groundout to make it 9 – 3.
 
The Hawks started to tee off on Kelly Ferris and scored runs in the fifth and sixth innings to cut it to 9 – 5. Sophomore Angie Wirshing delivered a pinch hit home run over Nisbet’s head in left in the sixth inning.

Photo: Eliot SchicklerWoodland opened the next inning with three straight hits to make it 10 – 7 and Kelly Ferris hit Kara Hames with a pitch. 

Boland slammed a double over Wasikowski’s head in right to score Gomez and Hames but she was within a few feet of Hames and was nailed in a rundown with Wasikowski throwing it to Burt, who then fired it to Kim Ferris, who applied the tag for the out.
 
Kelly Ferris pitched five innings and was the winning pitcher despite allowing six runs on nine hits with four strikeouts. She got the final two outs to preserve the win.

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