By Ron P. Coderre

It was a 50-50 week for most girls’ softball teams last week as they position themselves to qualify for the conference and State postseason tournaments.

Putnam and Ellis Tech, each with 10 wins, have staked their claims to postseason play, while Plainfield, Killingly and Tourtellotte are pushing steadily toward the magic number of eight wins.  Woodstock Academy unfortunately is the lone area team that has been eliminated from consideration.

The preps, Marianapolis and Pomfret School each picked up impressive wins last week.

Killingly Redgals Making Run 

at Tourney Qualification

The Killingly High School girls’ softball team opened the week in disappointing fashion, dropping a pair of games but rebounded strongly with three wins in a row.  After losing to Plainfield 6-2 and Waterford 15-2 the Redgals edged Tourtellotte in a squeaker 6-5 thanks to a big four run sixth inning.  Hannah Guari (3-4) was the winning pitcher, while Mikayla Pasco contributed a triple to the winning cause.

The Redgals followed the win with an 8-3 victory over Woodstock Academy with Taylor Duchesneau picking up the win in the circle.  Cara Mayhew with a double and a round tripper was the offensive show for Killingly.  The Redgals then picked up a satisfying 4-3 win over Plainfield to vindicate the loss suffered at the hands of the Panthers earlier in the week.  Duchesneau was immense in the circle in raising Killingly’s record to 6-11 on the season and 1-7 in the Eastern Connecticut Conference Medium Division.

Plainfield dropped to 7-9 overall and 3-6 in the ECC Medium Division when it lost its only 

other game to Stonington 10-4.

Putnam, which is 10-7 and 6-4 in the Constitution State Conference East went 2-2 on the week.  The Lady Clippers beat Grasso Tech 16-6 and Whitney Tech 8-3 behind the tosses of strong armed Mackenzie Livingston.  Putnam was on the short end of the stick against Parish Hill as the Pirates shut out the Clippers 7-0.  They were also the victims of a no-hit pitching performance at the hands of East Hampton 23-0.

Ellis Tech after falling to Holy Family 10-9 in a heart breaker bounced back with a pair of wins.  The Golden Eagles took the measure of Vinal Tech 18-8 and Windham Tech 20-10 to raise their record to 10-6 and 7-3 in the CSC East.  Sheriden Murphy picked up the wins in both games for the Eagles and produced a key double on offense in the victory over Vinal.  Taylor Blanchard, with a four-bagger and a pair of doubles, was the offensive leader in the win over Windham Tech.

Tourtellotte lost to Wheeler 7-0 but came back to post a 10-9 win over Windham to lift its season log to 6-9 and 2-7 in the ECC Small Division.  Crystal Daly was the winning hurler and Carinne Sosnowski had a double and triple to pace the offense.  Woodstock Academy was dropped by Fitch 17-1 and Bacon Academy 18-0 to fall to 2-14 and 0-8 in the ECC Large Division.     

Marianapolis raised its record to 10-2 with a 7-4 victory over a good Worcester Academy team.  The Golden Knights offense was led by Elaina Cosentino who went 3-4 with three runs scored and Taylor Pacheco who had a pair of runs batted in.

It took eight innings but Pomfret School prevailed over The Gunnery School 9-8.  Gena LaBeef (4-4) was the winning hurler with offensive help from Mary Redmond (double and triple) and a McKenna Newkirk round tripper.  

RPC’s Super Standings: Marianapolis 10-2; Ellis Tech 10-6; Putnam 10-7; Plainfield 7-9; Pomfret School 6-4; Tourtellotte 6-9; Killingly 6-11; Woodstock Academy 2-14.