The rival Boardman freshman softball team and the Cardinal Mooney junior varsity team battled it on the diamond April 15. Mooney started strong sending seven girls to the plate and scoring three runs to take an early 3-0 lead. Mooney’s pitcher, Jen Komara, started out fast striking out five of the first seven battles she faced.
Boardman then staged a comeback and scored seven runs in the third inning to take an 8-3 lead. After scoring two runs in the fourth, Boardman finished the game scoring six runs in the fifth inning, winning 15-3.
The freshmen team improved their record to 3-0; all three games have been stopped in the fifth inning invoking the ten-run mercy rule. On the year, they have scored 53 runs while allowing only 14 runs.
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After working her way out of a rundown, Boardman freshmen Melissa Maiorano safely slides into home. Maiorano was on base four times and scored three runs in Friday’s match-up between the Boardman freshmen and Mooney’s JV girls.
Boardman freshman Nicole Sanfilippo throws a strike during the Boardman-Mooney softball game on April 15. Sanfilippo came on in relief in the second inning allowing only one hit in her four innings of work.
Mooney sophomore Caitlin Cina digs a throw out of the dirt for the put-out as the Cardinals' JV team faced the Boardman freshmen last Friday.
Mooney's Geena Musolino lays down a bunt in Friday's action. The Cardinal girls took the loss, 15-3.
