After a week of delays, the Noblesville softball team finally got to play on Monday.
The Millers made the most of it, beating Hoosier Crossroads Conference rival Fishers 15-4 in five innings at the Tigers field. Noblesville scored seven runs in the first inning and six more in the second.
Emily Minett had a perfect day, going 3-for-3 at the plate. Minett hit two home runs, totaled four RBIs and scored three. Grace Smith was 3-for-4 with a run scored. Chloe Tragesser had two hits, both of them doubles. Olivia Stinson, Abby Brown and Julia Furiak all drove in two runs; Brown’s two RBIs came from a first inning double.
Diane Abbott hit a two-run home run in the fourth inning for Fishers. Kristi Gordon scored two runs.
‘Hounds outlast ‘Rocks in high-scoring game
Westfield had Carmel down by a bunch early, but the Greyhounds came back. Then the Shamrocks came back.
When the dust settled, Carmel had won a wild 11-10 game Monday at Westfield. The ‘Rocks scored six runs in the bottom of the first inning (the game was moved to Westfield from the Greyhounds’ Cherry Tree Softball Complex), but Carmel scored five runs in the top of the third to tie the game.
Emily Revercomb and Caroline Maymon both hit two-RBI doubles for the ‘Rocks in the first inning as they took their big lead. The ‘Hounds got on the board in the top of the second when Ariana Zdobylak scored on a wild pitch, then climbed back in the third. Zdobylak’s line drive sent two Carmel runs home, then she scored on a single by Sydney Fox.
The Greyhounds scored four more runs in the top of the fourth. Megan Nichols and Stormy Kotzelnick both blasted solo home runs. Westfield got to within 10-8 in the bottom of the fifth when Ashley Swartout and Regan Nickel scored, but Kotzelnick hit another homer in the sixth to keep her team ahead 11-8. Swartout doubled in two runs in the bottom of the sixth.
Sarah Goddard went 3-for-4 for Carmel, scoring two runs along the way. Kotzelnick and Darby Roberts both finished with two RBIs. Cate Harden pitched six innings for the win.
Regan Ohland had two hits for Westfield, with Revercomb and Swartout totaling two RBIs.