ACS Swat 10U Softball Team Reaches County Title Game
Adams-Cheshire moves on to Tuesday’s county title game against Dalton, a 17-16 winner over Lenox on Tuesday.
Dozier allowed three runs and struck out four in 3-⅓ innings. She also ended the game in style, snagging a line drive with runners at first and third and one out and firing to third baseman Emily Raschdorf to get the third out.
Marko led an eight-hit Swat attack, getting a hit in each of her first three at-bats and scoring a pair of runs. Dozier helped her cause with a double and a pair of RBIs, and Rachel Wnuk went 2-for-2 and scored four runs.
Karalynn Hopkins doubled in a run and scored twice for Lee, which also got a single and three RBIs from Dannica Poirier.
Both teams piled up runs in the first two innings.
Lee started with a five-run first against ACS starter Nora Moser, who struck out the side around six walks. She got her third strikeout of the game to leave the bases loaded and keep the score 5-0 (teams could score a maximum of six runs per inning until the final inning).
ACS scored the maximum in the bottom of the first thanks in part to Marko’s RBI single.
But Lee struck for six in the top of the second, which saw Dozier come in from center field to take over the pitching duties.
The Swat went up 12-11 in the bottom of the second. Cheyenne Ritcher and Marko each had a two-run single in the rally.
In the third, Dozier held Lee to one run to give her team an opening, and the Swat tacked on three in their half of the inning to go ahead, 15-12.
Hopkins double helped Lee pull to within a run in the top of the fourth, but ACS rallied for five runs in the bottom of the frame to make it 20-14.
Molly Middlebrook started the fourth-inning rally for ACS with a single to left. Wnuk followed with a single to score Middlebrook, who had moved up on a wild pitch, and Dozier brought home Wnuk. Dozier stole third and came home on a fielder’s choice from Raschdorf, who eventually scored on a wild pitch. Moser reached on a walk and moved and eventually scored on a wild pitch.
Lee’s Poirier closed the door with a pair of strikeouts to leave two runners in scoring position, but her team went to the fifth with a six-run deficit and darkness closing in.
In the top of the fifth, Isabella Elley walked, went to third on a Delaney Boomsma single and scored on an error that left runners at the corners before Dozier started the game-ending double play.
Dalton 17, Lenox 16
In a back-and-forth game, Dalton outlasted Lenox. Megan O’Bryan was the winning pitcher, and Eliana Norton did a great job behind the plate.
Katelyn McCormack hit a home run for Dalton, and both teams did a good job in the field.
Kacie Harte scored on a passed ball in the bottom of the seventh inning to win the game for Dalton. O’Bryan had two hits in the game, and Elena Ioveno had a double and a triple.
Makenna Kubli had two hits to lead Lenox.
16-and-Under Bracket
Greylock 2, Dalton 1
In a great game between the second-seeded Greylock Thunder and third-seeded Dalton, it took all seven innings to declare a winner.
Greylock scored in the bottom of the seventh inning to advance to the Berkshire County Championship Game. The score was tied, 1-1, with runners on second and third and two outs in the seventh inning when Faucher for the Thunder came through with a huge hit to make the home team the winners.
Berkshire Force 15, ACS Swat 0
Berkshire Force won the game in five innings.
Berkshire came out swinging the bats early. The Force was led by Brianna Clary’s impressive 5-for-5 day at the plate. Evelyn Fuls and Sophia Groves each had three hits, and Emma Parkington chipped in with two doubles. Sophia Groves pitched for the Force and had 10 strikeouts.
16-AND-UNDER
Thursday, July 27
(5) ACS Swat 12, Great Barrington 9
Monday, July 31
Berkshire Force 15, ACS Swat 0
Greylock Thunder 2, Dalton 1
Tuesday, Aug. 1
10-AND-UNDER
Monday, July 31
Dalton 17, Lenox 16
ACS Swat 20, Lee 15
Tuesday, Aug. 1
6 p.m. ACS Swat at Dalton, Berkshire County Championship Game at Dalton American Legion field
12-AND-UNDER
Wednesday, July 26
ACS Swat at Berkshire Force, Doyle Complex
Greylock Thunder at Dalton, Chamberlain
Friday, July 28
Berkshire County Championship Game, Berkshire Force 9, Dalton 3
