Softball team ends losing
streak with comeback win at NA
By Jay Turner
Citizen Staff
The Canton
High School varsity softball team came back from two runs down
on the road to beat a tough North Attleboro team, 5-4, last
Thursday, earning its first win against a Hockomock opponent
while also snapping a six-game losing streak.
After being
shut out by Oliver Ames and first-place King Philip to open the
week, it initially appeared as if the girls were headed for a
seventh straight loss, as they quickly found themselves in a 2-0
hole through two innings against the 8-5 Red Rocketeers.
But this
time, the girls responded — first in the top of the third
inning, when a Kelly White double scored Colleen Moriarty, who
had reached on a walk, to cut the deficit to one. Then, after a
Bulldog error in the bottom of the third had made it 3-1, Canton
took control with three hits and three runs in the fifth,
including an RBI single from pitcher Chrissy Murray and a
two-run triple from third baseman Brianna Whelan.
North
managed to tie the game at four in the home half of the inning,
but the Bulldogs, who were not to be denied in this one,
regained the lead in the seventh after Moriarty followed up a
pair of singles by Kelly Wade and Whelan with an RBI base-hit of
her own. In the bottom of the inning, a pair of great catches by
Whelan and Ali Zanetas helped seal the win.
In addition
to the timely hitting, the team also benefited from another
strong pitching performance from Murray, who did a “great job on
the mound,” according to head coach Danielle McNamara.
“[Murray]
worked the NA batters with a tough inside pitch all day, and
continued to get ground balls and pop ups,” said McNamara. “She
did an excellent job staying ahead of batters and getting them
to chase pitches.”
McNamara
noted that the entire team worked very hard on Thursday “to
prove that they can and want to win.”
“The girls
have improved so much since the beginning of the season and they
really want to win the last few games,” she said. “If they
continue playing the way they did today, we can still get a
couple more wins before the season ends.”
The Bulldogs
(2-14) were scheduled to host two games this week — Sharon on
Monday and Franklin this afternoon — before closing out the
season at Foxborough on May 19.
May
15, 2008
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