It’s hard to believe with all the snow and rain that’s fallen over the past couple of weeks that many area high school teams have stepped on the diamonds and begun the 2017 softball/baseball season.
This week in baseball the Saratoga Catholic Saints posted a trio of dominant “W’s” scoring double digits in each victory, while the Indians of Hoosic Valley enjoyed a 2-0 start to the season handling their business in a pair of outings.
On the softball side of things Spa Catholic won two of three, while Greenwich and Cambridge both posted victories over the Indians of Hoosic Valley.
Here’s a closer look at this week’s action.
Baseball
Saratoga Catholic 10 Mechanicville 2
Winning Pitcher: Kaden Learch 5 IP 10 K’s
Hitting Stars: Saints – Zac Cronk 4-4 Connor Farrington 3-4 2B, HR
Saratoga Catholic 13 Stillwater 0
Winning Pitcher: Connor Farrington 4 IP 8 K’s
Hitting Stars: Saints – Kaden Learch 3-4 Terel Tillman 3-4 2 2B’s, 3 RBI’s
Saratoga Catholic 14 Tamarac 3
Winning Pitcher: Terel Tillman 5 IP 11 K’s 2 hits
Hitting Stars: Saints – Connor Farrington 2-4 3B, 4 runs scored Kaden Learch 3-4 4 RBI’s
Hoosic Valley 13 Cambridge 0
Winning Pitcher: Ethan Caiazza
Hitting Stars: Valley – Kody Gillespie 2B Jake Soucy 2B Dan Girdano 2B Blake Wiegert 2 singles
Hoosic Valley 4 Greenwich 3
Winning Pitcher: Jon Colligan 3 IP in relief
Hitting Stars: Valley – Dale Maxon 2B and game-winning RBI single in the bottom of the seventh
Waterford 5 Hoosick Falls 3
Winning Pitcher: Connor Houle
Hitting Stars: Fordians – Mike Castracani 2-3 Robert Walek 2-3
Hoosick Falls 12 Cambridge 7
Winning Pitcher: Brandon Decker 6 2/3 IP 10 K’s
Hitting Stars: Falls – Cody Hodges 1B, 2B Andrew Stevens 1B, 2B
Softball
Cambridge 11 Hoosic Valley 8
Winning Pitcher: Miranda Seacord
Hitting Stars: Cambridge – Kayla Giglio 5 singles Olivia Brownell 4 hits 2 3B’s, 2B
Greenwich 5 Hoosic Valley 2
Winning Pitcher: Rachel Hall 11 K’s
Hitting Stars: Witches – Rachel Hall 3 singles 2 RBI’s Sabrina Whitehouse HR
Mechanicville 15 Saratoga Catholic 1
Winning Pitcher: Erin Salvadore
Hitting Stars: Raiders – Amanda Kenyon 3-6 2B Madison Harrington 3-5 Taylor Grayson 3-5
Saratoga Catholic 2 Stillwater 0
Winning Pitcher: Victoria Alvord 7 K’s 6 hits
Hitting Stars: Saints – Julia Murdock 3-3 Cassidy Hayner 2-3 RBI
Saratoga Catholic 10 Tamarac 9
Winning Pitcher: Molly O’Rielly
Hitting Stars: Saints – Cassidy Hayner 3-4, 5 RBI’s Molly O’Rielly 2-3, 2 RBI’s Victoria Alvord game-winning RBI single in the bottom of the seventh
