Mustangs Score 46 Runs in Fall Ball Finale

Mustangs Score 46 Runs in Fall Ball Finale

Auburn, ME – The CMCC softball team produced a display of offensive firepower in their fall ball doubleheader finale Sunday, scoring 46 runs between the two games against Roxbury Community College. The Mustangs took game one 25-4 before winning game two by a score of 21-0. 
 
Brooke Gero and Madison Boynton pitched complete games of five innings each, with Boynton's win going down as a no-hitter. Central Maine had 10 batters record hits. Sam Withee led the charge with a combined nine RBIs with Alivia Field right behind her with eight. 
 
Game One, 25-4 W
 
Things started well enough for Roxbury CC with their very first batter, Akire Lloyd hitting a lead-off triple into right field. Nadia Urbaez then brought her home for a 1-0 Tigers lead when her line drive to second base was dropped by Madison Anderson. 
 
Anderson made amends in the bottom half of the inning, reaching with a single and scoring on a McKenna Ridlon line drive to center. With the bases loaded, Madison Boynton hit a two-RBI double up the middle to make it 3-1 Mustangs. 
 
CMCC added five more runs in the bottom of the second, the highlight being back-to-back triples from Ridlon and Alivia Field. Lloyd scored again in the top of the third for the Tigers on a passed ball. But it was the bottom of the inning where the Mustangs really let loose. 
 
The team scored 15 runs and batted around the order twice. Every batter in the line-up reached base successfully at least once. Emily Libby, Miah Gallan, Ridlon, Anderson, and Field had extra-base hits, with Field hitting an inside-the-park home run. By the time the final out was recorded, Central Maine had a 23-2 lead. 
 
Roxbury would score runs in both the fourth and fifth innings but were matched by Sam Withee and Ridlon hitting RBI singles in the bottom of the fourth. 
 
When the game ended after the top of the fifth, Ridlon had gone five-for-five with three RBIs and four runs. Miah Gallan and Withee had four hits apiece while Field managed to produce five RBIs and three runs in just three at bats. Brooke Gero struck out nine Tigers and allowed only one earned run to earn her first collegiate victory. 
 
Game Two, 21-0 W
 
It was more of the same in game two for CMCC. This time though the Mustangs had their big inning in the bottom of the second when they scored 12 runs to take a 15-0 lead.  
 
Withee had a double and a triple in the inning, scoring four RBIs in the process. Jaydin Royer had a walk and a single. The freshman from Lyndonville, VT drove in two runs and scored twice herself. 
 
Madison Boynton struck out the side to open the game, fanned seven of the first nine batters she faced, and pitched a five-inning no-hitter with ten total strike out victims.  
 
After a scoreless third inning, the Mustangs plated six more runs in the bottom of the fourth. Field, Royer, Boynton, Gero, Ridlon, Gallan, and Withee all came up with base hits to make it 21-0. 
 
Olivia Gallan was two-for-four with a walk and four runs scored. Withee was three-for-three while Royer, Boynton, and Gero all went two-for-two with one walk each. 
 
It was a fireworks display that added some shine to a dreary last few weeks that saw the squad suffer back-to-back doubleheader losses without scoring a run. In fact, CMCC scored more runs (46) than they had in the rest of their entire fall season (31). The Mustangs now head into the winter break before starting their spring campaign in March.