By Ron P. Coderre

The Killingly girls’ softball team continued its late season surge picking up a pair of victories to qualify for postseason tournament play.  The Redgals are 8-11 on the regular season with one game remaining.

Putnam High School and Ellis Tech have already qualified and are ready to move on to tournament competition.  

Plainfield needs to win its final regular season contest to qualify, while the Tourtellotte Lady Tigers have two chances remaining to get to the magic number of eight to qualify.

Woodstock Academy is playing out the string at 2-16 overall and 0-9 in the Eastern Connecticut Conference Large Division. 

Killingly Joins Putnam and Ellis Tech in Postseason Dance

Late in the season the Killingly Redgals have awaken and decided that playing softball after the regular season is over may be fun.  The Redgals had a pair of victories to qualify for the ECC and State tournaments.  

Taylor Duchesneau pitched Killingly to a 12-1 win over New London.  Sue Rodriguez had a double and a triple, while Abbey Weber homered in propelling Killingly to the win.  Hannah Guari was in the circle for the Redgal’s 8-3 victory over Windham.  Guari limited the Whippets to seven hits.

Putnam with an 11-9 record went through a week filled with three losses.  

The Lady Clippers were shutout by Holy Family 16-0, lost a squeaker to Norwich Tech 9-8 and was eliminated from the Constitution State Conference Tournament by Platt Tech 31-4.  The highlight of the week for the Lady Clippers was a 22-3 win over Cheney Tech.

Ellis Tech beat Norwich Tech 16-4 as Adrianna Riddick tossed a four hitter and Rhiannon Sulik had a pair of doubles to pace the offense.  Ellis Tech is 11-6 and 7-3 in the CSC East as it prepares for the postseason.

Tourtellotte needing one win to qualify for the postseason lost to Lyman 8-4 and Stonington 15-0.  Sandwiched between the losses was 10-9 win over Woodstock Academy.  Halie Poirier was the winning pitcher for the Lady Tigers, while Christina Koacz had a double and a home run to pace the 12-hit attack.  Tourtellotte is 7-11 and 2-8 in the ECC Small Division.  Woodstock lost its only other game to Norwich Free Academy 11-2.

Plainfield at 7-12 and 3-7 ECC Medium Division was dropped three times last week.  The Lady Panthers lost to Waterford 9-0, East Lyme 8-2 and St. Bernard 4-2.

Pomfret raised its record to 7-4 with a 7-4 victory over Deerfield Academy.  

Gena Labeef (6-4) was the winner in the circle for the Lady Griffins.  McKenna Newkirk had a pair of doubles in the win, while Labeef had a triple to help her cause.

RPC’s Super Standings: Marianapolis 11-2; Ellis Tech 11-6; Putnam 11-8; Killingly 8-11; Plainfield 8-12; Pomfret School 7-4; Tourtellotte 7-12; Woodstock Academy 2-16.