POTTER VALLEY — Upper Lake scored three times in the top of the seventh to take a 6-4 lead, but the Potter Valley Bearcats rallied for three runs in the bottom of the inning to beat the Cougars 7-6 in a non-league softball game on Friday in Potter Valley.
Potter Valley snapped a 3-all tie with a run in the bottom of the sixth before Upper Lake (2-1), trying for its third straight win to open the season, pushed in front in the top half of the seventh.
“We had too many walks,” Upper Lake coach Kelly Coburn said of the eight free passes issued by Cougar pitchers Jackie Lovrin, who worked the first three innings, and Laura Wold, who pitched the final 3 2/3. Wold was charged with the loss.
Lisa Benevides went 2-for-3 and drove in two runs for Upper Lake. Lovrin and Katherine Edmonds added two hits and a RBI apiece.
Upper Lake hosts Anderson Valley on Tuesday at 4 p.m.
In other action Friday:
Healdsburg 11, Lower Lake 1
At Healdsburg, a pair of dropped fly balls set up a four-run Healdsburg first inning and the Greyhounds went on to beat Lower Lake, snapping the Trojans” three-game winning streak.
Healdsburg had a 5-0 lead before the Trojans (3-3) broke through in the top of the fourth on a RBI single by Danielle McKay (2-for-2). The Greyhounds came back with two runs in the bottom of the inning and added four more in the fifth, at which point the game was called because of the 10-run rule.
Losing pitcher Kristen Garcia went the distance, allowed nine hits in 4 2/3 innings. She struck out five and walked four.
“I was happy with how Garcia pitched,” Lower Lake coach Tim Sherrell said. “She threw strikes.”
Besides McKay”s two hits, Darlena White had the only other Lower Lake hit.
After playing their first six games of the season in eight days, the Trojans are off until Thursday when they visit Calistoga. They return home the following day to play Calistoga in a doubleheader.
