WLC’s senior leaders came up huge on Tuesday as the Warriors traveled to Derryfield for a softball contest. Senior pitcher Sara Holka started the game and kept it to a 1-1 tie entering the fifth inning. Holka came to the plate and crushed a deep two-run home run to break the tie. The next batter up, senior catcher Ally Schwab, hit a dinger of her own and Wilton-Lyndeborough was up 4-1.
“If they had a fence, they would have been way out,” said head coach Dennis Claire. “Would have been out of ours easily. They played very deep on us, and both were over their heads.”
Derryfield nearly evened the score in the fifth, after Lexi Balam took the mound in relief. The Cougars scored two runs to make it 4-3, but WLC threw out the tying run at the plate.
The Warriors grabbed some insurance runs in the sixth, as 7th-grader Sam Yurcak dropped down a perfect sacrifice bunt to advance runners to second and third, and Balam drove them in with a double. Holka returned to close out the game for a 6-3 victory.
WLC (2-2) was set to face Epping (1-2) on Wednesday after press time. The Warriors travel to Pittsfield (0-2) on Friday at 4 p.m.