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Winners
Top left: Putnam Middle School softball pitcher Rylee Hehir in action. Right: Kassie Kania and Rylee Hehir meet on the mound. Photos by Julie Quinn.
PUTNAM --- The Putnam Middle School softball team improved to 5-0 this week with wins over Canterbury and Pomfret, both at home.
The winning pitcher in the Canterbury game (17-1 in 5 innings) was Rylee Hehir with 18 strikeouts while giving up only 1 walk. Rylee Hehir and Morgan Foucault both went 3-4 at the plate and Kassie Kania crossed home plate three times on the day.
May 10 Putnam overcame Pomfret by a score of 4-1. Rylee Hehir was the winning pitcher and Mackenzie Livingston struck out 4 of 8 batters to end the game. Savannah Nichols had 2 hits on the day while Hehir, Kania, Ashley Burke and Alyssa Peterson each had one.
Putnam now goes on the road for the next three games to finish out the season.