CLOVERDALE — If the Cloverdale Eagles have a weakness this season, the Middletown Mustangs couldn”t find it on Tuesday during a non-league softball game at Cloverdale.
“Margaret”s got the real deal,” Middletown coach Bob Cummesky said of Cloverdale counterpart Margaret Fitzgerald following the Eagles” 13-0 five-inning victory. “They are solid from top to bottom ? even their bench is strong. They are what we are striving to be.”
The Eagles scored four times in the bottom of the first inning, including a leadoff home run by Whitney Edens, added another run in the second and broke the game wide open with a six-run third. They added two more runs in the fourth.
“We haven”t given up a lot of extra-base hits this season and they had six against us,” Cummesky said.
One of those extra-base hits, a double, went to Cloverdale third baseman Cherise McEnery.
“She just hurts the ball,” Cummesky said.
Edens also doubled for the Eagles.
“We were looking for her to slap the ball when she led off the game,” Cummesky said of Edens. “We had our outfielders pulled in and she hit the ball to deep center (on her home run).”
Roshell Dunlap went 2-for-2 for the Mustangs (1-5), who had only three hits. Kiley Agapoff added a single.
Losing pitcher Lindee Jones worked the first two innings and allowed five runs on five hits.
In other softball action Tuesday:
Healdsburg 13, Kelseyville 2
At Healdsburg, Kel-seyville pitchers Jillian Allen and Sabrina Lyons combined to walk only one batter, but the Knights” defense committed eight errors in an ugly non-league loss to the Healdsburg Greyhounds.
“I would say we looked like the Bad News Bears, but that would be an insult to them,” Kelseyville coach Greg Giusti said. “We just played horrible.”
Trailing 7-0 after three innings, the Knights closed to 7-2 in the top of the fourth on a run-scoring double by Sarah Johnson and a RBI single by Kenzie Gould.
“I thought that might settle us down and make us more comfortable,” Giusti said of the only night game on the Knights” schedule. “But we just unraveled in the bottom of the fifth.”
The Greyhounds scored seven times in the fifth, at which point the game ended because of the 10-run rule.
“One bright spot was our pitchers but they had no support from the girls behind them,” Giusti said.
Another bright spot was Ashley Mueller, who continues to hit the ball well — she went 2-for-3.
“She”s hitting the ball real well, the only consistent producer right now,” Giusti said.
Upper Lake 4, Lower Lake 3 (scrimmage)
At Lower Lake, a scheduled non-league game between the Lower Lake Trojans and Upper Lake Cougars turned into a scrimmage when the umpires never showed up. The game does not count in the standings.
and the game statistics are official.
