The Windsor softball team dodged a series of storms this week to get in a pair of games on the pre-league circuit, notching home victories over Sonoma Valley and Terra Linda.
The wins pushed Windsor’s record to 3-2 after five games, with North Bay League action slated to start this week.
At press time the Lady Jaguars were forced to cancel their NBL opener against visiting Rancho Cotate on March 20 due to a wet field, with a Thursday, March 22 date at Ukiah also in jeopardy. Windsor will travel to Maria Carrillo next Tuesday, March 27. All league games start at 4 p.m.
Jags in win column
Windsor was hitting on all cylinders in a soggy March 12 clash with visiting Sonoma Valley, overcoming a 10-minute rain delay and steady showers en route to an 8-4 victory.
The game was a reunion of sorts for Windsor coach Morgan Rasmason and her Sonoma counterpart Keely Ray, who faced each other during their high school playing days.
The Jags rode the hot hand of pitcher Kayla Scott, who is equally effective in a starting or relief role, as she fired six innings, scattering 10 hits and yielding three earned runs while fanning six in a strong effort. Sydney Hage (1 IP, 0 hits, ER) closed it out in the seventh to earn the save.
“The Sonoma game was the best we’ve played so far, we battled the whole game,” Rasmason reported. “Alyssa De Casas had two really clutch catches in center field, leaning over the fence to make them, and Camille (Kahnberg) hit great.”
Kahnberg led the attack with three hits in four trips, including a double, two runs and an RBI. Also swinging hot bats were Scott (2 fof3, 2B, RBI), Averie Gehrett (2 for 4, run), Gracie Hernandez (2 for 3, run), Anis Acevedo (1 for 4, 2 RBIs), Hage (1 for 4, run), De Casas (1 for 5, run), Caitlyn Murphy (1 for 3, 2 RBIs) and Kasandra Jaramillo (1 for 4, RBI).
Windsor played host to the Terra Linda Trojans with a make-shift lineup on March 19, overcoming early mental mistakes with a spirited late comeback. The Jaguars trailed 5-1 before erupting for four runs in the bottom of the third for a 5-5 tie, icing the contest with another three-run, fifth-inning uprising in an eventual 8-6 win.
“That game should have been a ‘W’ for us and thankfully it was,” Rasmason noted. “We started very slow, almost as if the girls were half asleep, but we got it together and rallied the bats to score a total of eight runs, so I can’t complain too much.”
Scott (5 IP, 9 hits, 3 ERs, 5 Ks) claimed the win, while Hage (2 IP, hit, ER, 4 Ks) earned the save. Top hitters were Hage (3 for 4, run, RBI), Acevedo (2 for 4, 2B, run, 2 RBIs), Scott (2 for 4, run, 2 RBIs), De Casas (1 for 3, run, RBI), Murphy (1 for 4, 2 RBIs), Jaramillo (1 for 3, 2 runs), Mele Pearl (1 for 3, RBI), Fatima Vigil-Figueroa (1 for 1) and Hernandez (1 for 2, 2 runs).
