Sports Roundup: Mystic Valley Softball Celebrates Senior Day with Walk-Off Win

The Mystic Valley softball team celebrated Senior Day in style with an exciting 14-13 come from behind walk off victory over Northeast on Tuesday.

Things did not start well for the Eagles as they spotted Northeast four runs in the second inning. They scored three runs in the bottom half to cut the lead to one, but Northeast had a big third inning scoring seven runs to take an 11-3 lead.

The Eagles were down but they were not out. They crawled back into the game scoring one in the fourth and five in the fifth to make the score 11-9. The Golden Knights added two in the sixth for a 13-9 score.  Mystic Valley scored a run in their half of the sixth setting up the Eagle heroics. 

The tide began to turn in the top of the seventh when Rebecca Milley made a spectacular catch to save at least a double and allow the Eagles to get out of the inning unscathed. In the bottom half of the inning Milley, Sara Marriccino, Michelle Doherty and Joan Kinnon walked.  Milley and Marriccino scored on passed balls bringing the score to 13-12.  With the Eagles down a run, Rachel Tortora came up with up with no outs and two runners on. Tortora came through drilling a double to left field scoring Michelle Doherty and Joan Kinnon for a walk-off win.

The win was extra special for the Eagles as they said good bye to four seniors on their annual Senior Day.  Six-year starter Joan Kinnon, Emalee Thomas, Rebecca Milley and Leah Brown will all graduate this year but not before they lead the Eagles into the State Tournament which begins this week.

Mystic Valley Track Finishes Second in CAC Meet

The Mystic Valley girls track and field team finished in second place in the recent Commonwealth Athletic Conference track meet, the boys team finished in fourth place.

The girls were led by Fallon Bushee who finished first in both the mile and two-mile runs with times of 6:06 and 13:42. Ariana Mirzakashani won the 400 with a time of 64:07 and Soraya Caballero finished first with a time of 2:43. In addition to being very good athletes all three girls are excellent students. Bushee and Mirzakashani are on the National Honor Society and Caballero, who is only a freshman, recently scored the highest grade in the state on the National Spanish Exam.

The boys were paced by Ben Bottrell who finished first in the high jump with a jump of 5-8 and Ricky Yu who won with a time of 53:97 in the 400.

Mystic Valley Baseball Falls to Greater Lowell 5-1 

Mystic Valley’s baseball team dropped Tuesday’s game to Greater Lowell by a score of 5-1.  The Eagles could not get anything going offensively as Greater Lowell’s ace recorded 12 strikeouts and only allowed four hits while throwing a complete game. 

The loss drops the Eagles to 9-3 in the CAC and 12-6 overall. 

Submitted by Mystic Valley Public Relations Director Martin Gately.