The Britton U12 softball team opened its inaugural fastpitch season with a sweep over Webster on Friday and then dropped a twin bill at Groton on Saturday, while the U10 squad dropped two to Webster and split with Groton.
The local U12 nine opened its summer campaign by stopping Webster 8-6 and 9-5. No statistics were available for those contests. Groton won the Saturday opener 8-2 and then took a squeaker 13-12 for the sweep.
In the 10U contests Webster earned a 5-1, 1-0 sweep. Groton took the opener 4-3 on Saturday but Britton bounced back with a 3-0 shutout.
Groton U12 8-13
Britton 2-12
Groton broke open a 3-2 game with five runs in the third to take the opener and then drew a bases-loaded walk in the bottom of the final frame of the nightcap for the walk-off win.
Britton managed just a couple of hits in the opener – singles by Tinley Beck and Lenyx Jones – and Beck drove in both runs. Sage Phillips took the pitching loss. The local nine turned three double plays in the contest.
In game two each team scored in every inning. Groton broke a 3-3 tie with five in the second, Britton answered with four in the third but Groton matched that, and then Britton erupted for five in the final inning to knot the contest at 12-12, setting up the game-winning walk. Jaelyn Heitmann singled twice, Jacey Melroe ripped a double and collected three RBI’s, Grace Folkman singled and had two RBI’s, and Alayah Krutsinger had a safety.
Webster U10 5-1
Britton 1-0
Webster scored four runs in the first inning of the opener and maintained that margin on the way to victory and then pushed across a run in the final inning of the nightcap for the sweep.
Faustina Rapkoch and Shea Hastings both singled for Britton’s only hits in game one. Hastings went the distance on the mound, striking out six. In game two Hastings, Bentleigh Rein, Alyssa Kanizar, and Hayden Peters each singled and Rapkoch pitched all threre innings with four strikeouts.
Britton U10 3-3
Groton 4-0
Groton rallied from a 3-2 deficit with a pair of runs in the final inning to take the opener, and the local nine gave up just a single hit and played errorless ball in the field to earn the split in the nightcap.
Britton out-hit Groton 9-8 in its opening loss. Emsley Eimers and Delilah Hockenbrock both laced a pair of singles, Rein tripled, and Peters, Rein, Harper Steiner, and Sadie Mills each singled.
In the nightcap Rein had a pair of singles and Rapkoch, Mills, Steiner, and Maria Sanchez Colmenarez added base hits. Mills went the distance on the mound, allowing just one hit and fanning six batters.
