By Kim J. Harmon

June Frost may have gotten gunned down at the plate (thanks to a nifty 8-5-2 relay) in the bottom of the fourth inning trying to stretch a triple into a home run, but that’s okay – the two most important runs of the game had already scored.

With Beeline Woodworking and Curtiss & Crandon all knotted up at 6-6 in the bottom of the fourth of the Newtown Women’s Slo-Pitch ‘A’ League final, Justine Kohlsaat and Sue Ormsbee of Beeline collected back-to-back singles and soon scored on Frost’s triple to centerfield.

While Frost was eventually tagged out at the plate, the runs scored by Kohlsaat and Ormsbee provided all the cushion Beeline needed to outlast C&C, 8-7, for the division championship last Wednesday at Treadwell Park.

C&C wasted little time and took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first on a triple by Patrice Fahey and one-out double by Diane Alicea. In the bottom of the frame, though, Beeline scored twice on four consecutive singles by Lori Dale, Julie Mooney, Kohlsaat and Ormsbee.

While C&C failed to score in the top of the second, Beeline tacked on two more runs thanks to a double by Missy Jones and single by Paget Haylon (scoring Cindy Palkemas and Tammy Nelson) to take a 4-1 lead.

In the top of the third, C&C scored two runs – with two outs – on singles by Fahey and Lisa Dolyak and a triple by Alicea. In the bottom of the frame, Beeline got both of those runs back on a double by Deb Gaboriault, fielder’s choice grounder by Angie Taylor, single by Lisa Pollack and fielder’s choice grounder by Dale.

In the top of the fourth, singles by Martha Decker and Adrian Dandrea set the stage for a run-scoring single by Flo Perry and two-run double by Lynn Bayliss.

That tied the game at 6-6.

Leading to the dramatics in the bottom of the frame.

C&C was set down in order in the top of the fifth and failed to score again in the sixth despite singles by Dolyak and Alicea and a double by Marlene Bucci. In the top of the seventh, C&C finally broke through with a run (scored by Perry) but it wasn’t enough.

Beeline sent 17 different players to the plate and among that parade Pollack, Kohlsaat, Ormsbee and Gaboriault had two hits apiece.

For C&C, Fahey, Dolyak, Alicea, Perry and Jennifer Van Epps collected two hits apiece.