CAMBRIDGE — Kent County High School’s softball team dented the win column for the first time this season April 9, avenging a 10-run loss a week and a half earlier to Cambridge-South Dorchester and giving Katie Boardman her first win as the program’s head varsity coach.
Senior Michelle Menequin went the distance in the circle for the Trojans [1-6], and wiggled out of a bases-loaded jam in the last of the seventh inning to seal the 12-11 victory.
The winning battery was Menequin and Ayryonna Roberts behind the plate.
Menequin helped herself with a run-scoring hit, while also receiving offensive support from Talicia Wright, Amiyah Roberts, Ariyana Green, Julie Dickerson and Laila Johnson.
As the score would suggest, the game was a nail-biter.
“Very, very exciting,” Boardman told The Evening Enterprise.
The score was tied at 11-all after six complete innings.
Green scored what held up as the winning run courtesy of Dickerson’s RBI single in the top of the seventh. After hitting her way on, Green swiped second, advanced to third on an Ayryonna Roberts hit and, courtesy of Dickerson, crossed the plate with the Trojans’ 12th run — the most runs they have scored in one game this season.
Host Cambridge [2-7] was in a position to walk off with the win after loading the bases with two away in the last of the seventh. But Menequin quashed the rally by coaxing a game-ending groundout to second baseman Dickerson.
Dickerson and center fielder Wright played especially well defensively, according to Boardman. The coach also gave shout-outs to Ayryonna Roberts, who was filling in for the injured starting catcher, and Menequin.
KCHS avenged a 12-2 loss at home to Cambridge on March 31.
NOTE: Kent County will host Crisfield on Thursday, April 16 when the seniors will be celebrated in a ceremony set for 3:45 p.m. The game should follow at about 4 p.m.
