by Cindy Jackson
The Lake Braddock Bruins, ranked third by the Washington Post in the entire DMV, had to fight hard for a come from behind 7-1 in at West Potomac.
The game truly was much closer than
that score conveys. Aside from one crazy fourth inning, West Potomac hung tight
with the Bruins and showed that they can hang with even the toughest competitor.
West Potomac was the first to get
up on the scoreboard, in the bottom of the second. Raven Williams got on base
with a hard hit to 3rd base. After a few bobbles, the 3rd
baseman couldn’t throw Raven out in time.
Torie Bolger then came to the plate and smacked a beautiful hard line
drive to left field, securing a double for herself. Runners were on second and
third with just one out. Raven then scored on a passed ball (we didn’t see too many of those tonight). After two complete innings West Po was up,
1-0.
The Bruins didn’t get on the
scoreboard until the top of the 4th (West Po’s defense only
allowed one runner to even get on base up until this point). Lake Braddock put up 5 runs on
the scoreboard this inning.
The West Po defense did pretty well defending.
Maddie Miller caught a fly ball in right field for the first out, which turned
into a double play. The runner who was on second tagged up and went to third.
Kate Gregory made a magnificent cut, and threw out the runner going to third,
with the tag by 3rd baseman Annabelle Miller. Grace Moery made
the 3rd out of the inning, catching a fly ball to center field.
Lake Braddock put up another run
in the top of the 5th, and then one more in the top of the 6th.
West Potomac got two more hits of the bottom of the 7th. Annabelle started off the inning with a nice
single to LF, and Eliza Treadway hit a fly ball to left-center, getting a
double under her belt. It just wasn’t enough to pull out the win.
Final score was 7-1, Lake
Braddock.
Wolverine Whispers: Summer arrives the same day as the first game against South County; the weather is forecasted for the upper 80s, so dress
accordingly.
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