The Division I reigning State Champion Londonderry High School Softball team was able to take down just one opponent last week between rainstorms with a 5-2 late-inning victory over the Wachusett Regional High School Mountaineers.
Two of the three games the Lancers were scheduled to play last week were washed, including the battle with the team’s rival, the Pinkerton Academy Astros. That game, planed for Friday night, needed to be re-scheduled for Tuesday, May 20 at 4:30 p.m.
In the out-of-conference game, at Wachusett Regional High School, in Holden Massachusetts, Londonderry kept its record spotless with three unanswered runs in an extra-inning after finishing 2-2 in regulation.
Junior right-hander Elisabeth Kearney was able to strike out 20 batters in the game, pitching all eight innings. Kearney gave up six hits with two runs and walked five during regulation, then hit a bomb to left in the top of the eighth-inning to drive in the three winning runs. She followed that sitting down three batters with strikeouts to end the game.
Overall, the Londonderry offense put up seven hits in eight innings and struck out 10-times against the Mountaineers ace, Shayna Bakun, who didn’t allow a single walk.
The Lancers opened the scoring in the fourth-inning starting with single by Ginny Flaherty, followed by another single by Mady Normand to put two-on with one out. After a sacrifice bunt by Shannon Crowley, Riley Campo singled in the first two runs from third and second.
In the bottom of the fifth, Addison Scoble singled to right field for the Mountaineers and tied the game at two, where it sat until the eighth.
Flaherty led the Lancers with two hits in four at-bats in the game.
Londonderry was very sure-handed in the field and didn’t commit a single error.
The Lady Lancers had a busy schedule planned for this week, provided the weather cooperates, starting on Monday with a game in Exeter (4-5), at home on Tuesday against Manchester Memorial-Central (1-8), Dover (3-6) at home on Wednesday and a road game on Thursday versus Bishop Guertin (8-2).