Undaunted by playing 4 games on Sunday, including three in a row, the New Era Diamond Girls Muni team battled to a 3 and 1 record and an overall unofficial 3rd place finish in the Lady Raider College Showcase in Horseheads, NY . Weather wiped out all of the team’s games on Saturday and delayed the Sunday start as well but the team battled on for victories over the Rochester Battery Lightning, the Amherst Lightning (Trippi) and the Homerun Softball team out of Syracuse. The team’s only defeat was a 2-0 loss to the New Jersey Rampage.
Keying the winning performance was excellent team defense (no errors in 4 games) and timely power hitting. Outstanding performers included Ally Gay (hitting .666 with 3 doubles and an on base percentage of .800) Lauren Muni (2 over the fence homers, one of which was an absolute bomb to dead center), Ashley Lyman (.625 average with 3 doubles, 5 rbi and a .778 on base percentage), Jess Geary's speed was shown off again. Leading the team with 4 stolen bases she batted .429 and had obp of .700, Theresa Fleckenstein’s over the fence homer, and the consistent strong line drive hitting of Taylor Jezuit. Sara Tauriello continued her run of outstanding pitching by throwing 7 shutout innings. Her scoreless streak now stands at 33 innings. on the young travel season.
We would be remiss in not thanking the grounds crew at the tournament for doing an unbelievable job of getting the fields ready for play in light of the incredible amounts of rain they absorbed. They put in a ton of work to make that tournament a success.
