(Photo Ed Piper, Jr.)
By Ed Piper, Jr.
La Jolla's softball team enjoyed a good week last week, winning three games in three days in the annual Duds for Dudes tournament.
They were the first three wins for new Coach Andrea Denham's squad, after opening the season with six consecutive losses.
But on Wed., March 29, the Vikes were missing the right side of their infield, first baseman Emily Alvarez and second baseman Sara Tyrus, for a game at Helix. The whole house of cards came falling down in the second inning, when a talented Highlander team scored 10 runs.
The game was called on the 10-run mercy rule after La Jolla batted in the bottom of the fifth--a coin flip before the tournament game determined home team--with the score 14-1.
Viking shortstop Josie Sinkeldam was errorless in the field, handling a large number of grounders by the Highlanders to the left side of their hard-packed infield.
After starter Kyra Ferenczy went three innings, with former head coach Anthony Sarain sitting in with assistant coach Tracy Brown, with Denham absent, junior Flor Martinez tried her hand at pitching.
Martinez, who played in the infield prior to her pitching stint, didn't allow a run in her single inning of work but hurt her non-throwing shoulder and left the game after the fourth inning.
Ferenczy then resumed her place in the pitcher's circle to finish out the abbreviated contest.
Third baseman Linda Brown smashed a line drive over the left fielder's head in the bottom of the first, with the ball rolling all the way the fence. Sinkeldam, who got aboard via a hard-hit grounder to short, came all the way around from first on Brown's drive.
That was La Jolla's sole run.
Helix pitcher Kasey Castro, a freshman, went four innings, limited the Vikings to four hits, and struck out one while walking none. She faced only 15 batters to get the 12 outs, using 41 pitches, as she logged her third win in her third start.
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