South Royalton
Josh Scoskie and Dalton McDougall combined on a five-inning one-hitter and Justin Brock delivered a pair of RBIs in his return from injury as the top-ranked Royals dispatched rival Whitcomb-Rochester, 15-0, at Alumni Field. Scoskie helped his own cause by driving in five runs, three on a bases-clearing triple with two outs in the first inning.
Scoskie worked the first three frames on the mound, holding the Mountaineers (5-12) hitless while striking out eight. Whitchester’s Timber Russell nicked his team’s only hit off McDougall, who was otherwise solid with two strikeouts and one walk over the final two innings.
South Royalton plated seven runs in the first inning to take control. Stephen Paige joined Brock and Scoskie in the two-hit department, and Nicholas Howe contributed a two-run single for the Royals (15-0). South Royalton will host Long Trail in a D-IV semifinal on Tuesday.
Whitchester loses four seniors to graduation: Ben Harvey, Alex Munyon, Isaac Hodgdon and Cory Abbott.
Leland & Gray 7, Windsor 1
Townshend, Vt.
Olivia Brown kept Windsor off the bases to earn the win, allowing three hits, two walks and hitting two batters. The Jacks’ Olivia Rockwood took the loss, walking just one without a strikeout.
Leland & Gray scored twice in the home first only to have Windsor answer with an Ava Sutton RBI hit that plated Brooke McKeen a half-inning later. The Rebels stretched their advantage with a two-run second and netted three more unearned runs in the fourth to pull away.
“We played well the last five games of the regular season,” Windsor coach Phil Hathorn said. “It was kind of a rough-played game in Thetford on Tuesday, but we played well today. We had two errors, and only one affected us. We made a lot of plays after that.”
Outfielders Angel Sutton, Ava Sutton and Annie Soho all had good defensive games, Hathorn said. Soho joined fellow seniors Erin Wierzbicki and the second-base platoon of Megan Herschel and MacKenzie Davis in their final Windsor games.
Hathorn will get to coach Wierzbicki one last time in the three-game North-South Classic at Castleton University later this month.
Oxbow Advances on Forfeit
Bradford, Vt.
The win sends the O’s to a Tuesday semifinal at home against either No. 4 Enosburg Falls or No. 5 Peoples. Oxbow (15-0), which earned a first-round tournament bye with its undefeated regular season, will not have played a competitive game in 10 days when its semifinal visitor arrives next week.
GMVS 13, Hartford 9
Waitsfield, Vt.
Michaela Ricker potted four goals to lead Hartford, which picked up a pair each from Morgan Pero and Caitlin Gaudet. Emily Ricker also scored, and goalie Jaden Sanborn made 10 saves. Sophia Maynard led GMVS with five goals.
Hartford’s six wins tied a program high from the 2006 campaign. The Canes will return the bulk of their roster next spring, losing only Sanborn and defender Kaylee Williams to graduation.
BFA-St. Albans 15Woodstock 5
St. Albans, Vt.
Griffin Knapp and James Konrad had the big games for BFA. Knapp scored five times with four assists, while Konrad had a hat trick with five helpers. Cooper Cioffi also scored four times for the hosts, who used the second-period explosion for an 11-3 halftime cushion.
Dan Robinson contributed three goals in his final game for Woodstock (9-7). Jonas Kantola and Camden White had the others; Lucas Piconi earned three assists, and Kantola had one.
The Wasps graduate eight.
Big Green Advances at IRAs
Gold River, Calif.
The Big Green’s four with coxswain finished second in its six-boat head with a time of 6 minutes, 38.32 seconds, about 5½ seconds behind Navy. The varsity four boat also moved on, taking third in its head in 16:32.62. Both crews required a top-three finish in their heats to advance.
Both boats will compete in the title races on Sunday morning.