“I was pleased with Danielle Petrunti, our senior second basemen and our first basemen Sophia DeFalco, but we made too many errors,” Richter said. Despite the scoring drought, Northport head coach Janet Richter said she saw some bright spots. This was one of our best games, so I’m very proud of my team.”īecause of the mercy rule of being up 12 runs by the sixth inning, the game was called with a 12-0 score. “We’re a very strong team and we came out strong.
“When I got to second and I saw he was waving me on, that’s when I knew,” Gambino said of her productive at-bat.
Commack’s Gianna Venuti underhands the ball to the second baseman for the out. The ball rolled to the fence as she rounded second, and got the green light from Cooley, as she made her way around third and crossed home plate for an inside-the-park grand slam. Koster came in to run for Fox, and Gambino jumped on a pitch that she blasted over the right fielder’s head. With still only one out, junior Casey Brown kept the inning going for Commack with a single, and Fox, made it to first on a Northport error to load the bases. Sussman stole second, and senior Kelly McKenna knocked the ball into shallow right field to score for an 8-0 advantage. Venuti singled,, and junior Sabrina Sussman drilled a pitch through the gap to plate Panzzerella with one out. Panzarella didn’t stay long, and stole second without a throw. We left a few out there at the beginning of the game, but we made adjustments as the game went on and adjusted well to a new pitcher.”Ĭommack junior Brianna Panzarella smacked in infield ball that rolled toward left field, but safely made it to first on a Northport error. “The one thing that we’ve tried to execute from the beginning of the year is to make sure we get hits when we have runners in scoring position. “We started the game off a little slow,” Cooley III said.
Northport’s Sophia DeFalco gets the out at first. Senior Mimi Cusack took over at the mound. Up to bat next was junior Stephanie Afonso, who hit a sac fly to bring Koster home, triggering a Northport pitching change. The sophomore stole second with Gambino at the plate, and the junior ripped a base-clearing triple for a six-run lead. Fox drew a walk, and was replaced by pinch runner Melanie Koster. Junior Ariana Arato’s bat spoke next on a stand-up double with no outs, and on missed catch on a pitch, she moved to third. When we had runners in scoring position, we scored most of them.”
“And then, when we hit, we followed through. “As soon as I hit it, I knew it was definitely gone,” Principe said. According to Commack head coach Harold Cooley III, it was the longest home run he’d seen at the Northport field. The ball cleared the adjacent Long Island Rail Road property fence. Michelle Principe also homered for Commack.Īlready up 3-0 at the top of the fifth inning, Commack senior starting pitcher Emily Fox retired the side in order, and her team got to work on offense, which is were Principe started things off by cracking a shot over the left field fence for a leadoff homerun. Photo by Bill Landonĭanielle Gambino went 4-for-4 with a grand slam and six RBIs and Gianna Venuti went 4-for-5 with two doubles and a triple to lead Commack (3-1) in Suffolk II. The Commack softball team was hard for Northport to catch up to April 22, after the Cougars went through the batting order twice in the fifth inning, scoring 12 runs en route to a 12-0 nonleague road win.
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