SOUTHBURY - It looked like the Newtown Middle School softball team was on its way to a 10-5 win over Woodbury last Friday … but Mother Nature had other plans on her mind.
SOUTHBURY â It looked like the Newtown Middle School softball team was on its way to a 10-5 win over Woodbury last Friday ⦠but Mother Nature had other plans on her mind.
With two outs in the bottom of the sixth inning, the Lady Lions were trying to beat the rain and were poised on the edge of a win when the skies finally opened up. The umpire was forced to call the game and since the last inning â in which Newtown scored six runs and Woodbury scored one â didnât count, the game went into the books as a 4-4 tie.
And that makes two for the Lady Lions this season.
The 2003 season opened last week and the Lady Lions got started on the right foot with a 9-7 win over Bethel Middle School last Wednesday and then followed up with a 2-2 tie with Rochambeau the following day.
Then came the tie with Woodbury.
Three games into the season, Newtown is 1-0-2.
Weird.
In the big sixth inning against Woodbury (the one that didnât count), Sammie Ciaccia and Jaclyn Van Waalwijk hit back-to-back doubles while Kyla Miles tripled, Stacy Broughton singled and Kelly Tenney doubled.
In the part of the game that did count, Meredth Palo belted a fourth-inning home run that tied the score at 4-4. Tenney and Rachel Nicolosi had singles, the only other hits before that big sixth-inning explosion.
In the tie with Rochambeau, Palo singled twice and homered to spark the offense. Andrea Rigby, Mariel Renna, Sara Peters, Katie Schmidt, Melissa Paynter and Danielle Nicolosi had singles.
Melissa Fracker and Van Waalwijk played well in the field.
In the season-opening win over Bethel Middle School, Renna teamed with Palo and Rigby to fashion a 16-strikeout pitching performance. At the plate, Ciaccia tripled and homered while Rachel Nicolosi singled and doubled, Joanna Barry tripled and Fracker and Van Waalwijk doubled.