By Kim J. Harmon
By Kim J. Harmon
Rain might have put a damper on part of the season, but when the Newtown Middle School softball team has gotten outside this spring â like it did last week â it has done spectacularly well.
Three days.
Three games.
Three wins.
The Lady Lions put up 47 runs and recorded wins over Danbury Co-Op (20-1), Memorial of Middlebury (17-1) and Bethel (10-4). The three wins helped the Lady Lions push their record to 4-0-2.
The win over Danbury was halted after five innings. The Lady Lions jumped out to a 4-0 lead at the end of one and a 5-0 lead at the end of two. In the third and fourth innings, the locals put up 12 more runs to run away with the game.
Meredith Palo and Katie Schmidt banged out three hits apiece while Samantha Ross and Renee Solheim had two hits apiece. Kelly Tenney and Sammie Ciaccia both belted home runs while Jacqui Kirol and Schmidt tripled.
Sara Peters had an unusual day, going 0-for-1 with four walks and four runs scored.
In the win over Memorial, the Lady Lions scored all 17 runs in the third, fourth and fifth innings. They had just one hit (from Jaclyn Van Waalwijk) in the first two innings, but exploded in the third.
Ciaccia, Rachel Nicolosi, Van Waalwijk, and Joanna Barry banged out two safeties apiece as 12 different players collected hits. Barry and Val Nezvesky both tripled while Andrea Rigby, Nicolosi and Van Waalwijk doubled).
In the win over Bethel, a four-run second inning gave the Lady Lions enough cushion to hold their opponents off. In that inning, Van Waalwijk tripled in a run, Schmidt singled in a run, and Barry belted a two-run homer.
Nicolosi was 3-for-3 to spark the offense. Schmidt, Mariale Renna and Kyla Miles collected two hits apiece. Renna also pitched a solid ball game, whiffing nine batters, while Barry sparked the defense with some solid plays in the field.