Although the season is over, Chugiak High girls softball coach Jim Huber did not yet know the team’s order of finish in the seven-member league - at least not by Sunday evening.
Huber confirmed that with the squad’s 11-10 loss to Dimond Saturday, the two teams finished with an identical 8-win-4-loss record in regulation Cook Inlet Conference play. East is a solid first-seed, and Bartlett is fourth, he said.
Chugiak shortstop Kayleigh Vergnetti is accompanied toward the dugout by classmate Mariah Bookbinder after Vergnetti was hit near her left eyebrow by a ground ball Saturday. The cut required seven stitches, but Vergnetti was back for the team's game against Homer later in the day.
Photo By DAVID MORSE
The Mustangs had the game against Dimond well in hand, leading 7-4 going into the last inning, Huber reported, when a couple of errors along with a mental mistake opened the door for Dimond, allowing the Lynx to score three runs and send the game into extra innings.
Both teams scored three runs in the eighth inning, leading to yet another extension of the contest.
Dimond scored one in the ninth, then held the Mustangs scoreless, after Chugiak pushed a runner to third base with only one out, Huber reported.
Chugiak sophomore pitcher Ashley VanRyn took the loss in the circle. Interestingly, her father, Cameron, is the coach for Dimond.
The game was dealt an unfortunate turn for the Mustangs in the top of the third inning, when recent graduate Kayleigh Vergnetti, the team’s shortstop, was struck in the head due to a sharply hit grounder, with the blow solidly squared on her left brow. The injury caused a good deal of blood, filling the girl’s palm with blood in the short walk to the team’s third base dugout, resulting in a short delay to the game.
Vergnetti was accompanied by her parents to the hospital where she received seven stitches and was back in the team’s dugout for a non-conference game with Homer hours later.
Huber said that while he respected the youth’s desire to get back into action, he kept her on the bench during the team’s 5-1 win over the Mariners. The coach said that Vergnetti, who also bats cleanup in the team’s offensive order, would be back for Cook Inlet Conference tournament play.
Huber confirmed that with the squad’s 11-10 loss to Dimond Saturday, the two teams finished with an identical 8-win-4-loss record in regulation Cook Inlet Conference play. East is a solid first-seed, and Bartlett is fourth, he said.
Chugiak shortstop Kayleigh Vergnetti is accompanied toward the dugout by classmate Mariah Bookbinder after Vergnetti was hit near her left eyebrow by a ground ball Saturday. The cut required seven stitches, but Vergnetti was back for the team's game against Homer later in the day.
Photo By DAVID MORSE
The Mustangs had the game against Dimond well in hand, leading 7-4 going into the last inning, Huber reported, when a couple of errors along with a mental mistake opened the door for Dimond, allowing the Lynx to score three runs and send the game into extra innings.
Both teams scored three runs in the eighth inning, leading to yet another extension of the contest.
Dimond scored one in the ninth, then held the Mustangs scoreless, after Chugiak pushed a runner to third base with only one out, Huber reported.
Chugiak sophomore pitcher Ashley VanRyn took the loss in the circle. Interestingly, her father, Cameron, is the coach for Dimond.
The game was dealt an unfortunate turn for the Mustangs in the top of the third inning, when recent graduate Kayleigh Vergnetti, the team’s shortstop, was struck in the head due to a sharply hit grounder, with the blow solidly squared on her left brow. The injury caused a good deal of blood, filling the girl’s palm with blood in the short walk to the team’s third base dugout, resulting in a short delay to the game.
Vergnetti was accompanied by her parents to the hospital where she received seven stitches and was back in the team’s dugout for a non-conference game with Homer hours later.
Huber said that while he respected the youth’s desire to get back into action, he kept her on the bench during the team’s 5-1 win over the Mariners. The coach said that Vergnetti, who also bats cleanup in the team’s offensive order, would be back for Cook Inlet Conference tournament play.
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