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Tons of runs
Salem CC softball sets modern era scoring records for the second time this season in sweep of Morris
REGION XIX SOFTBALL Salem CC 29-17, Morris 0-3 Delaware Tech 9-3, Mercer 0-9 RCSJ-Gloucester at Bergen Northampton 18-15, Camden 9-5 Lackawanna 8-20, Sussex 0-4 Brookdale 18-15, Middlesex 0-4
By Al Muskewitz Riverview Sports News
PENNSVILLE – The Salem CC softball team batted around (twice) to start their doubleheader, batted around to end it and scored a lot of runs in between. A lot of runs.
The Mighty Oaks set modern era school records for runs in a game and runs in a doubleheader Saturday when they rolled over Morris 29-0 and 17-3 at Watson Field.
It was their most prolific day since reviving the program four years ago. The 29 runs in the opener and 46 runs in the twinbill broke the records they set in a 16-6, 27-4 road sweep of Anne Arundel two weeks ago.
Just like the 27-run game against Anne Arundel, the Mighty Oaks scored 13 runs in the first inning of the opener against the Titans. Unlike that Anne Arundel outburst, though, they were much more patient at the plate, sitting through 82 pitches and 11 walks in the first inning alone when they sent 18 batters to the plate.
All 16 players available Saturday had gotten into the game when Tiana Wilson batted in the bottom of the second inning, another inning the Mighty Oaks batted around. The only player who didn’t get a plate appearance was starting pitcher Raegan Wilson – and interim coach Mackenzie Freas would’ve made it happen had she been made aware.
They batted around in the fourth inning, too, sending 14 batters to the plate and scoring 10 runs. The first 10 batters all reached safely – seven with hits — and scored. Ava Ortiz drove in the record-breaking runs with a two-run single, her second hit of the inning.
They second game was more of the same. They scored eight runs in the first inning – all with two outs – to answer the run the Titans scored in the top of the inning. Savannah Palverento tied the game with an RBI grounds-rule double and Kasen Ervin gave them the lead for good with a two-run opposite-field single to right.
They added four in the third on Lilly Peverelle’s two-run homer and Jordyn Busch’s two-run double, and batted around in the fourth to score five runs. The homer was Peverelle’s second of the year. Her first came in the Anne Arundel doubleheader.
All 15 players who batted scored at least one run in the opener and 13 had at least one hit and one RBI in the doubleheader.
Sawyer Simmons went 4-for-5 in the doubleheader and reached six times in her seven plate appearances. Peverelle was on base five of her six times at bat. J.J. Aguirre had five RBIs in the doubleheader and Palverento went 3-for-6 with six RBIs and was on base six times in nine plate appearances.
RODRIGUEZ UPDATE: Mighty Oaks head coach Angel Rodriguez is scheduled to be released from Cooper University Hospital in Camden Sunday after undergoing triple bypass heart surgery earlier this week. Rodriguez has been getting around and recently completed a walk of 300 steps. “I talked to him yesterday,” Freas said. “He sounded real good.” The players are looking forward to seeing him.
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