The bats were alive and the run-scoring plentiful for the Yorktown Patriots in most of their last seven girls softball games.
Yorktown (6-7) finished 4-3 in those high-school contests, scoring double-digit runs in four of the outings and plating 58 overall.
Five of those games came during a spring-break trip to Myrtle Beach, where Yorktown finished 2-3, winning by 13-1 and 10-8 scores and losing 10-8, 9-3 and 7-2.
In the 13-1 win over the Spencerport Rangers from New York, Kaiya Ovando doubled, tripled and had four RBI. Her double drove in three runs, helping Yorktown score eight runs in the first inning.
Rylee Grant had two hits (double) and two RBI for Yorktown; winning pitcher Lilah Grace Kresse had two hits (double and an RBI); Sophia Giambalvo had an RBI single; Malena Cardinale had an RBI; and Chloe Ellis had a hit and two stolen bases.
In Yorktown’s 10-8 win over the Cicero-North Syracuse Northstars, Kassen Foreman had three hits (double) and two RBI.
Cardinale had two singles and as many RBI; Noa Kammerman had two hits and an RBI;, Ovando added a two-run double; and McKenna Gurgo had an RBI and was the winning pitcher.
Yorktown rallied from deficits of 3-0, 5-3 and 8-7. Cardinale’s two-run single in the top of the seventh inning gave the Patriots the lead for good at 9-8.
In Yorktown’s 10-8 loss to the Webster Thomas Titans of New Yorktown, Gurgo and Evans each had two hits.
In one of Yorktown’s other losses on the trip, Cardinale had three hits, including an inside-the-park home run.
Prior to spring break, Evans had three hits in Yorktown’s 11-4 win over Herndon, a game where Samantha Parker was the winning pitcher.
Ovando had four hits, including a home run, in Yorktown’s 11-1 win over Wakefield prior to spring break. Parker earned the win.
O’Connell remains undefeated: The undefeated Bishop O’Connell Knights (11-0) defeated Holy Cross, 14-0, in their most recent game in Washington Catholic Athletic Conference action.
O’Connell has had a number of other games rained out the last two weeks.
Against Holy Cross, Bri Lencz, Annie Van Dyck and Ella Fletcher combined for the shutout. The Knights took control by scoring nine runs in the first inning, with Abby Bond (three RBI) singling home the first run, then tripling home the ninth.
Fletcher and Emma Prykanowski had run-scoring hits and Gigi Payne belted a two-run homer.
Lucy Hensler later had a two-run hit in the win.
In an earlier 11-2 victory over Bishop Ireton in WCAC action, Prykanowski and Callie Lissenden (two doubles) each had three hits, and Lencz had two.
Wakefield, W-L off for spring break: The Wakefield Warriors (4-3) and Washington-Liberty Generals (3-5) did not play any games during spring break.
