The Middlebury College softball team split a pair of NESCAC doubleheaders on the road in Maine this past weekend.
The Middlebury College softball team won three out of four games late last week to conclude its season-opening Florida trip with a 7-4 record. All games were played in Clermont.
Local softball umpires are noting there is a shortage of umpires for high school games in Vermont and Addison County, and they are hoping to recruit more arbiters into the fold this year.
The Middlebury College softball team opened its season by winning five out of eight games in its annual trip to Florida.
“The Bat” sits prominently on the windowsill in the office of Middlebury College softball coach Kelly Bevere. It’s a crummy old bat really, not much good for anything now, worn out, pretty much out of hits, but assuming a deservedly honored spot.
After winning seasons for all four programs, two dozen softball players from the Mount Abraham, Middlebury, Vergennes and Otter Valley earned postseason honors from either the Lake Division or the Southern Vermont League B Division.
Trailing by 3-2 in the fourth inning, No. 1 seed Oxbow scored seven runs and put the game out of reach for the Commodores.
For the second straight season, the No. 2 Mount Abraham Union softball team won two Division II playoff games, but then came up short vs. No. 3 Enosburg, its Lake Division rival, in a home semifinal.
It took the No. 2 seed Vergennes Union two innings of Tuesday’s Division III semifinal to adjust to the less-than-lightning-speed offerings of Brie Howe-Lynch, who took the mound for No. 6 Green Mountain Union.
Host No. 3 Enosburg erupted on offense on Saturday and defeated the Otter Valley softball team, 21-2, in five-inning Division II softball quarterfinal.
The Mount Abraham, Middlebury and Otter Valley softball teams all earned home games in the Division II tournament, and the Eagles and Otters advanced to weekend quarterfinals with wins.
ADDISON COUNTY — The Mount Abraham softball team picked up big wins over its county rivals Middlebury and Vergennes, one in a rain-soaked Tuesday affair, to highlight high school softball action between May 11 and 17. In other games, the Eagles rallied fo … (read more)
Middlebury and Mount Abraham both took rivalry game wins from Vergennes to highlight local high school softball action between May 4 and 10, which also saw Otter Valley take two out of three and all four teams remain over .500.
Host Tufts on Saturday ended the Middlebury College softball team’s season with a 9-3 victory in a NESCAC semifinal.
In a game that can feel nerve-wracking, she helps her teammates remember why they play in the first place — for fun. But she is also the best player her coach has worked with.
