- November 27, 2024
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The best thing about rivalry trash talk is that it usually leads to a great game. That could have been said for the better half of the Seabreeze-Mainland softball game, until the Lady Sandcrabs pulled away in the last innings to win 13-4 on Thursday, March 5, at Mainland.
“We just showed up; we came, we played great defense, and we’re hitting really well,” coach Tarisa Craig-Craggy said. We have a lot of confidence, and we’re making minimal errors. We’re a team right now.”
The Lady Sandcrabs (7-1) are off to their best start under Craggy, the six-year head coach, who has never lost to Mainland. They piled up 17 runs, which included to home runs from Taylor Lee, going yard in the third and fifth inning. Mainland didn’t give her the opportunity to make it three, in her last at bat, walking her with four balls.
“It was a little frustrating,” Lee said. “But I couldn’t get too mad because I understand. I just wanted to hit.” Lee called this her second best game, only runner-up to one where she also homered twice but in her sophomore season. She finished with three hits, two homers, seven RBIs and three runs.
Sammi Poehlman and Meredith McGarity also had three hits and three runs, but McGarity added a triple and an RBI. Hannah Demers had three hits and an RBI. Marlana Sutton got the win for Seabreeze, and Danielle Spaulding got a save with three scoreless innings.
For the Lady Bucs (6-3), who also are off to their best start in years, Kaitlin Litke did her best to keep them in the game with three hits, two runs, three RBIs and a triple. Josie Glass also had a hit that sent two runners in.
“It always feels good to beat Mainland, but they’re getting better,” said Craig-Craggy about her rival. “My team is just hot with the bats right now. In the past, we’ve had three or four decent hitters, and the rest were kind of weak on the hitting side. I have 13 girls that can hit the ball, and we’ve never had that.”
As the two teams look to get better as the season continues, this rival will also start to shape in to a great one.
