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Thursday's local roundup: Central softball collects silver medal at Bay State Games

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Players and coaches from the Central all-stars celebrate winning a silver medal in the Bay State Games.
Players and coaches from the Central all-stars celebrate winning a silver medal in the Bay State Games.

Softball

Bay State Games

West 12, Central 6: The Central squad scored six runs in the bottom of the third inning, but the West scored seven unanswered runs over the final three innings — belting three homers — to take the gold medal on Thursday at the Willard Sports Complex in Devens.

West Boylston's Peyton Maloney (3 hits), AMSA's Sophia Hammel, Leominster's Ella Beland and Cushing Academy's Colleen Murphy drove in runs in the third inning for Central. Monty Tech's Danielle Belliveau had three hits for Central.

The loss was a disappointing end of a great week for Central, which earned the top seed after posting a 4-0-1 record. The squad outscored its opponents, 44-21, heading into the final.

Central was led by Ayer-Shirley's Gabrielle Sweeney (11 for 19, 2 homers, 8 RBIs, .579 average), Lunenburg's Sarah Viveiros (11 for 22, 6 RBIs, .500 average) and Beland (8 for 16, 7 RBIs, .500 average) at the plate and AMSA's Heather Cotter (2-1, 0.75 ERA, 20 Ks) and Maloney (2-0, 1.00 ERA, 9 Ks) in the circle.

Melina Hadad (Bancroft), Emma Devens (Marlborough), Oliva Downer (West Boylston), Abbey Lenart (North Middlesex) and Ellie Hills (Leicester) also contributed for Central. The team was coached by Debbie Ryzewski, Jean Murphy was an assistant coach, and Sylvia Dempsey was the team manager.

Baseball

American Legion

Milford 16, Cherry Valley 2: Noah Curley and Louis Consigli each had three hits and scored three runs as Milford (17-5) rolled to finish off the regular season with a five-inning victory.

Evan Cornelius (3 runs) homered, and Nicholas Koch doubled and drove in three runs.

Matthew Kustigian had a double among his two hits and scored a run for Cherry Valley (5-16).

Milford's win followed Shrewsbury's 1-0 victory over Post 59, the completion from a suspended game that began July 5.

Futures Collegiate League

Vermont 6, Bravehearts 4: Gavin Noriega (double) and Sebastian Mexico (triple) each had two hits for host Worcester (17-25), but a late rally fell short in the first of a two-game series with the league-leading Lake Monsters (31-12) at Hanover Insurance Park at Fitton Field.

The Bravehearts trailed, 6-2, entering the bottom of the ninth inning before Cam Seymour homered with two out, and Mexico tripled in Connor Peek (walk), but Matty Warren struck out to end the game.

International League

Norfolk 2, WooSox 1; Norfolk 11, WooSox 4: In a bullpen nightcap, Worcester (45-42) allowed seven runs in the fifth inning and four more in the sixth as the host Tides (43-44) swept the doubleheader at Harbor Park.

The teams played two after Wednesday's regularly scheduled game was rained out.

Nick Sogard drove in two runs with a sixth-inning double for the WooSox.

In the opener, Norfolk's Terrin Vavra grounded a single in the seventh inning to score Cadyn Grenier with the walk-off winning run. Worcester's Christin Stewart clouted his 16th homer of the season in the fourth inning.

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