Submitted by Yorktown Softball
National District leader Yorktown dominated rival Mount Vernon, 15-0, in a game played at Yorktown on a cold and rainy Wednesday evening.
Annie Blaine was the starting and winning pitcher, with a five-inning complete game. She totaled 11 strikeouts and gave up only two hits.
Yorktown, meanwhile, compiled 13 hits, the biggest of which was a three-run home run by Emily Panyard. Panyard also had a double and a single, with a total of five RBI.
Kristen Soroka also had three hits — two doubles and a single — plus a walk and was hit by a pitch in five plate appearances. Soroka also scored four runs and batted in three more.
Blaine and Gretchen Schneider each recorded two hits. The other Yorktown hits were by Kimmi Oldham, Laurie Pinkerton and Stephanie Severn.
The defensive plays of the game included three by Mount Vernon. Second baseman Brittany Leckey made a shoestring catch of a soft line drive over the pitcher’s head to save an infield hit by Oldham in the first inning. In the fourth inning, with Olivia Compton at second base, Panyard hit a wicked line drive to second, which Compton speared to save another hit and two RBI.
In the fifth inning, it was third baseman Anne-Marie Warren who snagged a smash by Oldham, which she turned into a force-out to save another Yorktown run.
Two key defensive plays by Yorktown came when Panyard, at catcher, gunned down a runner trying to steal second in the fourth inning. Oldham also made a nice catch of a line-drive smash to right field, with a runner on third, to snuff out Mount Vernon’s best scoring opportunity.
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