“We’re going to score all the runs. All of them, I said!!” (Susan Farris photo)
Relentless.
Continuing to chew its way through the schedule, the Central Whidbey Little League Majors softball squad crushed host South Whidbey 25-4 Monday.
The win lifts the Hammerheads to a flawless 7-0, while improving their run differential on the season to an eye-popping 145-32.
Kicking off a busy week – Central has five games in six days – Monday’s game was the second-straight to feature Allison Nastali in the pitcher’s circle.
Giving staff ace Chloe Marzocca a bit of rest time, Nastali was on point, whiffing five across four innings of work.
Her team’s offense, after a (relatively) slow start, was its usual marauding self.
After putting up three runs apiece in each of the first three innings, Central Whidbey erupted for 16 runs on 13 hits in the game-ending fourth frame.
For the game, the Hammerheads bashed out 22 hits, led by Jada Heaton’s career-best five base-knocks.
Teagan Calkins backed her up with four hits, including a hard line-drive double, while Mia Farris, Madison McMillan, and Brionna Blouin delivered three hits apiece.
McMillan had the biggest extra-base hit of the game, singing the South Whidbey defense for a triple during the game’s big uprising.
Taylor Brotemarkle and Nastali rounded out the hit parade, slashing two base-knocks each, while Katie Marti (3), Aleksia Jump (3), and Mayleen Weatherford (1) combined to net seven of their team’s 25 runs.
Blouin (4) and Nastali (3) topped the team in RBI’s, with “Katie and Taylor playing great in the middle of the infield,” according to Hammerheads coach Fred Farris.
Marzocca, who has been battling a bit of tendinitis, got the night off, and is expected to be ready and rarin’ to go for Central’s next game, Tuesday at North Whidbey.
