Non-league Lowell snaps Everett’s 10-game winning streak

Tide softball wraps up regular season with games against Somerville, Cambridge, before postseason begins next week 

By Joe McConnell

The Everett High School softball team (16-2) lost its first game in a month after non-league visiting Lowell narrowly won a high scoring affair at Glendale Park on May 20, 12-10. Host Medford was the last team to beat the Tide, way back on April 22, 5-2. As of May 21, the Everett girls are 35th in the Division 1 power rankings out of 55 teams.
In a recent game, Everett shutout O’Bryant at home, 13-0 on May 10. Pitcher Peyton Warren was able to collect her fourth shutout of the year, while going five innings in another mercy rule game. Warren scattered just four hits and two walks. She fanned six batters.
In the first inning, Emma Longmore singled up the middle. She advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by Jayla Davila. Bryanna Mason singled her to third, before coming home on a passed ball to account for the first run of the game.
The home team scored three more times in the second. Ashley Seward led off the frame with a single, followed by another base hit by Emilia Maria-Babcock. Both runners moved up into scoring position on a passed ball, before Warren singled home Seward. Davila then tripled home two to give her teammates a 4-0 lead after two.
The Tide doubled up their advantage with four more runs in the third. Alexa Uga doubled to begin this uprising. Seward and Maria-Babcock followed with singles. Uga came home on Emilia’s hit. Arabella Cvitkusic tripled home two more runs. Warren then knocked her in on a fielder’s choice.
Everett closed out its offense in this game with five more runs in the fourth. Mason got it going with a double. Masucci then singled her home, and came home herself on a triple by Seward, who scored on a single by Maria-Babcock. Emilia then stole second, before scoring on a single by Warren. The final run of the game was unearned.
The Everett girls began a brand-new week at Revere, where they defeated the Patriots, 16-9 on May 13. Warren pitched all seven innings. She gave up 10 hits, two walks and eight earned runs. She whiffed nine.
Everett scored one in the top of the first. Freshman Olivia Dresser ignited the offense with a single. She moved to second on a passed ball, before Mason and Uga walked to load the bases with one out. Dresser then scored on a passed ball to account for the run.
Revere tied up the proceedings in the home half of the frame, and took the lead in the second with two more runs.
But Everett came right back with nine runs in the third to break the game wide open. Dresser blasted a homerun over the St. Mary’s centerfield fence to start the explosion. Mason followed with a single and moved to second on a fielder’s choice. Masucci and Seward also came through with base hits. Mason scored on Ashley’s hit.
With runners eventually in scoring position, Masucci scored on a rundown, with Seward moving up to third on the play. Maria-Babcock then hit a long triple to right that scored Ashley. Davila kept it going by beating out an infield hit, scoring Emilia. She then moved up to second on a passed ball, before Cvitkusic drew a walk. Both runners advanced into scoring position on a passed ball, before Davila came home on another passed ball. Longmore then singled home Cvitkusic. Uga knocked in the final two runs of the inning with a double.
The Tide tacked on three more runs in the fifth. Masucci accounted for one run on a sacrifice fly. Seward and Babcock then walked with the bases loaded to bring home the other two runs.
The Patriots got three back in the home half of the fifth to trim the deficit to seven, 13-6.
Everett completed its offense in the seventh with three additional runs. Davila and Longmore walked with the bases loaded to produce two runs. Dresser drove in the team’s last run of the game.
The Patriots scored two in their final at-bat to account for the final score.
“We kept telling the girls to be patient at the plate,” said coach Stacy Poste-Schiavo. “We knew Revere is a great hitting team. I witnessed them in the past coming back to win games, so we tried to get as many runs as we could to avoid that possibility.
“Peyton and (catcher) Maria-Babcock did a great job working together, and our offense helped out a lot with quality at-bats when needed,” added the veteran Everett coach.