It was a game the Perryville softball team would prefer to forget. Playing their first home game of the season, the Panthers fell behind big early and would up losing 10-5 to Havre de Grace Tuesday. The Warriors jumped on top with a run in the first before exploding for six more in the second. Perryville pitching allowed just five hits but walked four and hit four batters. The Panthers' defense also struggled a times. Just four of the 10 Havre de Grace runs were earned.
"It's our first home game," Perryville coach Dave Ruark said. "Here we are six weeks into the season and we've been anticipating getting a home game and we had a good turnout. Maybe the start of it was jitters. But we just didn't do enough things right. Obviously, we had a massive blowup in the second inning and that's hard to overcome. But we're a team that can hit our way even out of that. Havre de Grace made a lot of plays. The third and fourth innings, we hit the ball really hard and really didn't get much out of those innings. They made some nice plays. We're usually good at stringing together four or five hits but it was a little more touch and go. We really didn't put it together. Between the baserunning and the wild pitches and making errors things didn't really come together. Havre de Grace outplayed us. They earned that win." Down 7-0, Perryville scored a run in the second. Kaitlyn Griffin singled and wound up scoring after the Warriors overthrew home following a Jules Jones hit. The Panthers added another run in the third. Amber Keene singled to center and advanced to third when the ball rolled through the center fielder's legs. She scored on a Nicole DiGiambattista groundout. Winning pitcher Annelise Beer (seven innings, seven hits, one walk, three strikeouts) drove in three runs including a two-run homer in the sixth which made the score 10-2. Perryville tallied twice in the home half of the sixth. Kaitlyn Griffin drove in Aubrey Hill with a double in the left-center gap and she eventually scored on a wild pitch. The Panthers loaded the bases and scored a run in the seventh but could get no closer. Kateri Peters led the Warriors' offense with two hits, two RBIs, and two runs scored. Ruark was not happy when two Perryville players failed to run hard to first base. "The girls know if we don't play it through and we don't hustle, they're out of the game," the Panthers' first-year coach said. "It's pretty cut and dry. You never assume that the other team is going to make the play and you put pressure on them to make the play…We cheated ourselves out of a couple extra outs. You get 21 outs in a game and I feel like we may have only gotten 19 because of mistakes like that. It's a learning process and our girls are smart. They'll show up and they're going to play harder and they won't make the same mistake twice. I have confidence they won't do that." Comments are closed.
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