Albion bows in softball sectional opener
Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Albion’s Isabella Prest stretches to take the throw as East Aurora’s Madison Dziulko steals second. The action took place during the host Purple Eagles sectional loss to the Blue Devils this afternoon.
Scoring in each of the first six innings, No. 9 East Aurora posted a 17-2 win over host No. 8 Albion this afternoon in the opening round of the Section VI Class B1 softball playoffs.
Breaking away from a 2-2 deadlock, East Aurora moved on top to stay by scoring 5 times in the third inning on 4 walks, 2 errors and 1 hit.
The Blue Devils later locked up the win by scoring 5 times on 5 hits in the fifth frame to extend the lead to 14-2.
Albion tied the game at 2-2 in the bottom of the first as Isabella Prest tripled and Janae Doty and Kendall Eible followed up with RBI singles.
Prest had a total of 3 hits on the day and Doty 2.
East Aurora next visits top seed Depew in the quarterfinals.
Wilson 14, Olmsted 5
No. 10 Wilson scored in 5 different innings to defeat host No. 7 Olmsted 14-5 in the opening round of the Class B2 playoffs.
Winning pitcher Kira Zappy and Alex Seeley both had 3 hits and Jen Darlak a double and 4 RBIs to lead the way for Wilson which next visits No. 2 Fredonia in the quarterfinals on Thursday.
