Beavers win 10-8 over Cascade

WILTON — The No. 8 ranked Beavers survived a wild non- conference game with Cascade last Thursday at home. The win improved the Beavers record to 14-11 on the season and 3-2 against foes from the River Valley Conference North Division. Mila Johnson got the win in 3 1/3 innings of work. She struck out three, walked no one and gave up ve runs on eight hits. Charlotte Brown pitched the - final 3 2/3 innings in relief. She gave up three runs on seven hits and struck out two. She did not walk a batter.

Wilton had 15 hits in the game with their rst six batters in their line-up collecting multi-hit games. Mallory Lange was 3-for-4 with a double and two runs scored. Kortney Drake, Payton Ganzer, Taylor Garvin, Peyton Souhrada and Madelyn Wade each had two hits. Souhrad had a home run and drove in four runs and scored twice while Wade had a double and two RBI’s. Ganzer and Garvin also had doubles in the game. As a team, Wilton stole six bases.

Wilton batted around in the bottom of the rst and scored four runs to take early command of the game. Three straight RBI singles by Peyton Souhrada, Taylor Garvin, and Madelyn Wade accounted for three of the four runs in the inning. Wilton sent eight batters to the plate in the bottom of the second and scored four runs again to take an 8-0 lead. The big hit in the inning was a 3-run home run by Souhrada that scored Mallory Lange and Pay- ton Ganzer who both reached base on singles. Wilton added a ninth run in the bottom of the third to take a 9-0 lead on a Payton Ganzer RBI double with two outs.

Cascade however, came back. It started with a ve-run top of the fourth. The Cougars knocked out Wilton starting pitcher Mila Johnson, after Johnson gave up all ve runs. Taylor Menster had a RBI single and lead-o batter Devin Si- mon had a big 2-run home run in the inning to let Cascade trim the Beavers lead to 9-5.

In the bottom of the fth, Wil ton got one of the runs back on a solo home run from pinch hitter Chloe Wells. It was Wells’ eighth home run of the year. Cascade would make things interesting, scoring three runs on the top of the sixth to get within two runs at 10-8, but they could get no closer.

Cascade used two pitchers in the game. Hailey Hannan started and lasted only 1 1/3 innings in taking the loss. She gave up eight runs on seven hits. Sa- mantha Recker pitched the final 4 2/3 innings and gave up two runs on ve hits and struck out ve batters. Cascade had 14 hits in the game led by Whitney Clemens who was 3-for-4 with a double. Devin Simon, Addy Weber, and Hailey Hannan each had two hits.