?Guy smashed a vicious groundball that caromed off shortstop Sabrina Ryals’ glove and rolled far to her left, allowing Deana Benner to beat a possible forceout at second and Jehnigan to score.
Guy, a junior catcher, jumped on an 0 and 2 pitch from Jen Zabetakis to end the game and put the Eagles into a first place tie with Glen Burnie in the North Division with two games left.
Northeast, which has 10 wins in its past 11 league games, and Glen Burnie are 11 3 in the North. Northeast is 13 5 overall; Glen Burnie is 12 4 overall.
Northeast has a bit of an edge in the remaining two league games, hosting 11th ranked North County Friday and playing at unranked Meade Monday. Glen Burnie plays eighth ranked Old Mill Friday on the road and North County at home Monday.
"I kind of hate to say this," said Guy. "I hope Glen Burnie loses Friday and that will give us the opening we need. I didn’t think I would get the winning run in today when I first hit the ball, but it was great to see the ball bounce so far away from her."
For the Northeast team that started five freshman yesterday and had a sixth (Melissa Rode) pinch hit in the decisive 10th, it was another case of not cracking under pressure.
"I liked the way we hung in there and didn’t panic when they tied the game up in the seventh," said Northeast coach Marianne Shultz. "Like I’ve said before, we’ve been in so many of these tough games that we’re used to it by now."
Freshman pitcher Stacy Smith displayed excellent location again yesterday to pick up a route going victory despite giving up 10 hits.
Smith struck out four and walked one and worked out of a one out jam in the top of the seventh after Glen Burnie had tied the game at 3 on a throwing error that enabled Jeri Haagenson to score from third.
The Gophers had a runner on second and one out after tying the game but couldn’t score.
Northeast had wiped out a 2 0 deficit with a two run triple by Kristin Briggs and a run scoring single by freshman Deana Benner in the third inning.
Chesapeake AA 7, North County 3: Brooke Clyde and Missy Silvers each had RBI singles, and Lauren Gontkof singled in the final two runs in the eighth to break a 3 3 tie and keep the fifth ranked Cougars (11 4, 9 4) alive in the county’s North Division title race and give coach Dennis Thiele his 200th career victory.
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