Hometown Softball Program Game Recap – Chartiers-Houston – 04/13/2012

By: HSSN Staff
Friday, April 13, 2012 | 11:55 AM

In a game fitting of two teams previously unbeaten in Class A, Section 1, the Chartiers-Houston Buccaneers outlasted Frazier by one run extra innings.

The Buccaneers had averaged nearly 13 runs per game and had only scored less than 10 runs one other time but struggled to get runs against Commodore starting pitcher Andrea Lash who scattered seven hits.  Lash deserved a better fate on this day as all five of the runs she gave up were unearned.

The Buccaneers dented the scoring column first by scoring a single run in the 2nd inning and then added a pair of runs in the bottom of the 3rd to take a 3-0 lead.  In that 2-run third inning, Chartiers-Houston’s starting pitcher Kayla Briggs led off by reaching base on a error.  She was sacrificed to second by Piper McLaughlin and came around to score on a one-out triple by Colby Miller.  Miller then scored after Ashley Hall’s strikeout.  As Hall struck out, Commodore catcher Courtney Domonkos dropped the pitch and had to throw down to 1st base for the put out of Hall and Miller, who broke on the throw, scored as the relay throw from 1B Kelsey Dillon appeared to be in time but Miller slid under the tag.

Frazier, however, would respond with a 4-run 5th inning.  Brittany Strothers would lead off with a single and would advance all the way to 3B on the attempted sacrifice by Monica Joseph.  On the play, Kayla Briggs throw was missed by McLaughlin at 1B setting the Commodores up with runners at the corners with nobody out.  After a pop-out, Andrea Lash drove an RBI single to CF which scored Strothers before Kelsey Dillon delivered the biggest hit of the inning, a 3-run home run to deep left field that landed onto the roof of the batting cages beyond the fence.  That blast gave Frazier a 4-3 lead at the time but the Buccaneers would tie the score in the bottom of the 6th inning without the benefit of a hit.

Consecutive fielding errors and a stolen base put runners on 2nd and 3rd for Char-Houston leading to a game-tying sacrifice fly off the bat of Rachel Tucker.  Tucker finished the game 3-3 with a 2B and that RBI.

Neither team could push a runner across in their half of the 7th inning and the game stayed tied until the bottom of the 8th inning when the Buccaneers scratch across the final run.

With one out, Kassie Keshneck reached base on a fielding error, took second base on a single by Tucker and scored on a 2B from pinch-hitter Megan Kraushaar.  Char-Houston’s Kayla Briggs celebrated her birthday by getting  the win on the mound, and in doing so, she struck out 14 Commodores while yielding only 3 walks.

With the win, the Buccaneers run their record to 4-0, 12-1 and will go on the road to face Avella on Saturday in another Section 1 conference game.  Frazier’s record falls to 2-1, 2-4 and will move up a Classification to take on Bentworth on Saturday.

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