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Cairo Forces a Game 3 in District 15 Senior Girls Title Chase
Cairo 9 - Saugerties 8
All appearances would have the Saugerties Senior girls cruising to its 3rd
Straight District 15 Championship tonight as the Sawyers jumped out to an early
6-0 lead; however, a late rally with 7 runs in its final at bat gave Cairo a
come from behind win 9-8.
Saugerties scored a run in each of the first 3 innings. Maureen Ball led a 3 run 4th opening with a walk that was followed by singles and runs from Jasmine Wilber and Courtney O’Connor in addition to an E6 and run scored for Oksana Knisell. It all amounted to a Saugerties 6 - Cairo 0 after 5 innings.
Saugerties starting pitcher Karley O'Connor was strong through 5 holding Cairo to 1 hit 2 BB and 7 K's. O'Connor gave up 3 BB to start the bottom of the 6th then gave up a 2 run double by Jacqui Pooters. The third Cairo run was nailed at the plate by a nice throw from CF Kristen Moylan & relay from Hannah Bagshaw to Courtney O'Connor at home. O’Connor battled for the next 2 outs and Saugerties headed into the 7th with a 6-2 lead.
Saugerties led off the 7th with an E5 off the bat of C. O'Connor followed by a Bagshaw BB then a bunt single by Ashley Werner plated 1 run and a RBI single by K. O'Connor made it an 8-2 score after 6 1/2.
Cairo’s Jenna Schlenker lead off drawing an error (e5) & Kayla Warner followed with a 1B. With 1 out and 2 on base, Brittany Provost hit into a E4 to score Schlenker. Consecutive hits Brittney Hoose (1B) and Nicole Zucchiro (2B) ended O'Connors night with the score 8-6 2 runners on and 1 out.
Megan Terwilliger came on for Saugerties and Pooters reached on an E6 to plate the 7th run. Heather Knickel followed with a game tieing single. Saugerties got the second out, but with the game winning run at third, Schlenker blooped a walk-off single past first base to score the game winner.
WP - Brittney Hoose - 9 Hits, 5bb 4k
LP - Megan Terwilliger -2 Hits 0 bb 0 k 4 batters
ND - Karley O'Connor - 6 Hits 5bb 7k
S - K. O’Connor - 2-1b, Sydney Dennis 1b 1run, Ball 1b 2 runs, Courtney O'Connor 1b,2rbi
2 runs, Jasmine Wilber 1b 1run Oksana Knisell 1b 1run, Ashley Werner 1b 1 run,
Kristen Moylan 1b
C- Nicole Zucchiro 1b,2b1 run, Brittney Hoose 1b,bb 2 runs, Jacqui Pooters 2b 1
run, Heather Knickel 1b 1run Jenna Schlenker 1b,1run game winning hit!
Saugerties will play Cairo 5:30 Tuesday night in Saugerties for the district 15
title
Friday, July 8th, Saugerties
Senior Girls Rally Behind D to Beat Cairo in Game 1
Saugerties 7 - Cairo 5
Alongside a gritty pitching performance by Megan Terwilliger, Saugerties capitalized on several Cairo errors tonight and survived two late
inning rallies to edge Cairo tonight 7-5. The game was highlighted by a mammoth
Hannah Bagshaw homer over the center field wall and a stellar grab by Sydney Dennis to stymie a Cairo rally in the 6th that turned out to save the game.
Saugerties struck first when Darci Bittner drew a walk from Cairo starter Courtney Partridge and eventually scored after a steal and consecutive pass balls.
Cairo rallied in the second to go up 2-1 as Warner scored on a Schlewker RBI single and was promptly brought home on Zacchio’s double to the right field wall.
Bagshaw wowed the crowd capping a 4 run Saugerties rally in the 3rd by stinging a 1-2
fastball for a homerun. The Sawyers rally also featured runs by Dennis (1B), Maureen Ball (BB,PB) & Bittner (E3).
Down 7-3 in its half of the 6th, Cairo staged a two out rally getting two
runners on board from a single & walk. But it was Dennis, on a full sprint in right, snaring a screaming Hoose drive that saved two runs. It turned out to be a game saver, as Cairo would
plate two runs in its last at bat.
Slick fielding by Ball at short and two big K’s by Terwilliger ended Cairo’s final rally with two aboard in the 7th.
Dennis & Bittner each scored twice. Oksana Knisell also scored.
Terwilliger struck out 7, yielded 5 hits and walked 8 in the win. Partridge K’d 7 and gave up 3 hits and 7 walks in the loss.
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Saugerties State Title Bid Comes to a Close
Havestraw Saugerties 2
After going 3-1 in the first two rounds this past weekend, the Saugerties Little
League Senior softball squad lost a close one to Havestraw tonight 5-2 in the
New York State Girls Senior Softball final.
Havestraw plated two first inning runs off of Saugerties starter Taylor Snyder when Taylor Carretcha drew a leadoff walk and was brought home on a RBI double from Breanna Rivera. Rivera later scored on a pass ball. From those two runs on, both Snyder and
Havestraw hurler Victoria Adams settled into a pitcher’s duel. Adams hurled a no-hitter through 3-2/3 striking out 6 in that span while
Snyder would retire 14 of 15 batters faced.
Saugerties showed signs of breaking through as Magan Melville battled Adams in a 10 pitch at bat to finally broke up the no-hitter with double
to right center with two outs in the 4th. As the game remained 2-0 moving to
the bottom of the 5th, Saugerties found a spark in Melville's at bat as a Courtney O'Connor single, an Adams miscue and a clutch two out RBI single from Maureen Ball to made it a 2-1 game. Adams mistakenly through the ball on the mound and walked
off thinking she had the third out (it was only 2) allowing Saugerties special runner Sydney Dennis to advance to third base.
Havestraw came right back in its half of the 6th picking up 4 of its 9 total
hits to score 2 more runs. The big blow came from Samantha Wagenstein who stroked a two RBI double. Snyder and Donna Brocco got hits for Saugerties in the 6th but Havestraw was spared a run by a perfect
8-2 putout as Jones threw a strike to catch Brocco at the plate attempting to
score from second. Saugerties picked up a RBI groundout by Hannah Bagshaw in the bottom of the 7th for the 2nd Saugerties run.
Congratulations to the Senior Girls & our coaches who did a tremendous job of preparing this team for a State
Championship with no District & Section teams to play. Thanks Steve O’Connor, Bill Bagshaw and Frank Smedek.
Sunday July 25th, Havestraw
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Megan Terwilliger & Taylor Snyder combined on a 4-0 shutout over Massapequa this afternoon propelling the Girls Seniors to its first New York State final round appearance since 1976.
Saugerties will face Havestraw in Monday night’s title game. Game time is at 7PM.
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Girls Seniors Open State Tourney with Back-to-Back Wins
The Girls Seniors are halfway home in its quest for the New York State Title after two wins today
in Havestraw. Saugerties got mercy rule wins beating Syracuse 13-0 and West
Shore 14-2.
Saugerties pounded out 13 hits in game 1 led by Donna Brocco who went 3-3 and scored 3 runs. Also joining the hit parade were Abby Osborn (1B, 2B 3 Runs, RBI), Taylor Snyder (3B, 1 run), Sydney Dennis (1B, 1 run). Jasmine Wilber got the win for Saugerties giving up just 2 hits and striking out 3. Emily Smedek relieved Wilber to pitch one scoreless inning striking out 2.
The hits kep coming in game 2 (12 in all) and Saugerties was once again led by Brocco with a 4-5 performance. Brocco also score 4 runs. Megan Terwilliger pitched 3 innings giving up just 3 hits and Snyder hurled the final 4 giving up 5 hits and striking out 4. Osborn blasted two triples and Magan Melville busted out for a single, double and 2RBI. Snyder (1B, 2B) and Smedek (1B, 3B also had hits for Saugerties.
A win in tomorrow’s 12PM game against Massapequa will assure the girls a slot in Monday night’s title game. Click to follow the bracket.
Wednesday July 15th
Seniors Girls Bring the District Title Back Home
A 9-4 Win in Convincing Fashion Punches a Ticket to the State Tournament
The Girls Seniors came out swinging tonight scoring 4 runs in the first and
never looking back to bring home the District 15 Title. Magan Melville led Saugerties’ 9 hit attack coming with a triple, double, single and 3 RBI. Jamie Whittam went the distance on the hill for Saugerties surrendering just one hit while striking out 13 and picked up two hits with two runs scored. District 15 was the only district
in Section 3 to field a tournament, therefore, Saugerties gets an automatic bid
to the New York State Championship Tournament.
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Saugerties is Jazzed by Wilber’s No-Hitter
Senior Girls go to Hudson District 15 Championship Game
Amidst the rain and threat of more of it, Jasmine Wilber brought the thunder tonight throwing the second no-hitter of the tournament for
the Girls Seniors for a 10-0 victory over Coxsackie. The girls advance to
Hudson for Wednesday night’s District 15 championship game.
The most exciting play of the night was delivered by Angelina Fagerstrom in the 2nd. With two runers aboard, Fagerstrom hammered a Kelsey Haberman
fastball down the left field line to the wall. Fagerstrom hustled for a triple
and then challenged Coxsackie left fielder Alyssa Edward by rounding third and
heading for home. Fagerstrom slid in safe at the plate, beating the relay, and
was greeted by wild cheers from the home team fans.
Donna Brocco and Brittany Banks scored two runs each for Saugerties and Fagerstrom led the team by scoring 3. Wednesday night’s game starts at 8:30PM.
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Seniors Comeback to win Over S/C
A three run 5th inning helped the Girls Seniors overcome a 5-3 deficit as
Saugerties took advantage of 8 walks and held on to beat Southern Columbia 6-5
tonight.
Saugerties put themselves in a hole with 4 errors, which resulted in 3 unearned
runs, before staging the comeback. Taylor Snyder went the distance for striking out 5 and yielding just one walk. Jamie Whittam lead Saugerties with a single, triple and two runs scored and Brittany Banks had a double, 2 walks, 2RBIs and a run scored.
The Girls Seniors next play on Tuesday July 7th at 5:30 against Southern Columbia @ Livingston Rec Park. See Game Box Score.
