Softball team to host tournament
The games keep piling up for the Huron softball team as they host Alcona today (Thursday) and host the State Farm Invitational at Gilpin Field and the Rogers City Little League field Saturday. The Hurons play all their games at Gilpin beginning with a 10 a.m. game with Sault Ste. Marie, followed by a noon contest with Ogemaw, then a 2 p.m. game with Traverse City Central. Games at the Little League field will be Ogemaw playing TC Central at 10 a.m., TC Central taking on Sault Ste. Marie at noon, and the Soo playing Ogemaw at 2 p.m.
The Hurons improved to 4-0 in the Straits Area Conference and 8-2 overall after a sweep of Rudyard Tuesday in Rogers City. The first 10 players who came to the plate scored in the first game as the Hurons took a 15-0 mercy-rule game. Rachel Brege went all four innings, allowing two hits and one walk, striking out seven hitters. Senior shortstop Renee Romel had two of her team?s seven hits, including a single in the fourth inning to knock in the 15th run.
THE HURONS won the second game by an identical 15-0 score as senior Alison Schuiteman tossed a perfect game. She retired all 12 batters she faced while striking out two batters. The Hurons supported her with nine hits, with Brege and C. J. Calabrese getting two hits each. Monday in Petoskey, the Hurons lost two games, 5-0 and 7-2.
A chilly Lake Michigan cooled the Huron bats as Rogers City managed just two hits. Denise Betts of Petoskey struck out 12 batters while allowing no walks in the contest. Brege suffered her first loss of the season, allowing eight hits and three runs in five innings. Calabrese pitched the last inning. In the second game, the Hurons didn?t score until the sixth inning, after the Northmen had a 7-0 lead. Rogers City had six hits, with Romel and Calabrese getting two each. Ashley Fleming went three innings, allowing four hits and five runs in three innings. Schuiteman relieved in the fourth, surrendering two runs and four hits in three innings.
?WE WERE a little disappointed in Petoskey. We didn?t have the pep and enthusiasm we needed,? said coach Karl Grambau. ?But the losses in Petoskey will do us good, I think, in the long run.? Last week the Hurons swept a doubleheader from Gaylord, 3-0 and 7-6. Brege went all seven inni
An 11-inning marathon went to the Hurons and winning pitcher Ashley Fleming. Fleming took over for Brege, after the starter went the first five innings and had a 4-2 lead. Gaylord came up with four runs in the top of the seventh inning to send the game into extra innings. Lindsey Fleming?s single up the middle scored Schuiteman with the winning run in the bottom of the 11th.
Rogers City was ranked number ten in last week?s coaches poll while Alcona earned an honorable mention.