Windsor-The Yellow Jackets exploded for 9 runs in the first 3 innings but dropped a heart-breaker to Thetford, allowing 8 runs in the top of the 7th inning. Windsor’s Carah Rugg went the distance today and was cruising along, until miscues, walks and some timely-hitting by the visitors spelled doom today for Windsor.
Ava Sutton, Rugg, Jasmine Frazer and Hannah Wood all crossed home plate in the bottom of the first inning for Windsor, with the big hit coming off the bat of Wood, who tripled. Windsor picked up right where they left off in the second inning, as they sent 10 batters to the plate. Sutton, Angel Sutton, Rugg, Frazer and Brooke McKeen all added to the lead by crossing the dish, giving the home team a 9-3 lead after three innings on the strength of McKeen’s 2-RBI double.
Thetford was playing their first game of the season Tuesday, and began to chip away at the lead closing the gap to 10-5 after the 5th inning. Errors, a couple of base-on-balls and a few balls that found the backstop, cut the Windsor lead to 13-10 entering the final inning.
The visitors added two runs, compliments of fielding errors without a hit, and when Becca Wells drilled a bases-clearing triple, the lead for Windsor had vanished as Thetford completed their comeback. Thetford rallied for 8 runs in the top of the seventh and followed that up with a 1-2-3 bottom of the 7th inning.
McKeen had two hits for Windsor today, while Rugg, Frazer, and Madison Putnam also had hits, and Wood blasted a triple for the Yellow Jackets (0-3).
Head coach Heather Stearns will take her squad to Otter Valley on Thursday.
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