Tide softball secures win against Revere, before getting shutdown by visiting Medford

After beating Malden on Monday, Everett closed out this week at Chelsea Wednesday with three more road games on tap next week

By Joe McConnell

It was another week of mixed results for the Everett High School softball team (7-1 in the GBL, and 9-2 overall). The Crimson Tide girls first defeated host Revere on Patriots Day, 10-4, before getting shutout by Medford at home on April 23, 12-0.

Peyton Warren went the distance in the circle against Revere, pitching all seven innings. Warren gave up eight hits, one walk and two earned runs, while fanning seven.

The Tide put up six runs right away in the top of the first. Arianna Osorio-Bonilla doubled to leadoff the game, and Olivia Dresser immediately singled her home. Ashley Seward followed with another single, setting the stage for Alexa Uga, who doubled in the second run of the game. Mia Allen maintained the trend with another run-producing double. Graziella Foster followed that same script, and as a result doubled in both Uga and Allen. Jayla Davila closed out the scoring in the inning with, what else but a double that drove in Foster.

The home team Patriots got two back in the home half of the first. They then trimmed the deficit to two with a couple of more runs in the third.

But Everett got two of them back in the fourth to lead by four, 8-4. Uga started the rally with a single. Allen followed with another hit to the outfield. A short time later, they both came home on a hit by Graziella.

The visitors tacked on another run in the fifth, when Warren doubled, before coming around to score on an error and a passed ball.  They scored the final run of the game in the sixth. Seward got it going on a throwing error by the third baseman, and eventually scored on a fielder’s choice.

“This was a complete team win from Arianna (Osorio-Bonilla} setting the tone with that leadoff double to Peyton (Warren) battling through seven innings. Everyone stepped up,” said coach Stacy Schiavo. “We had big hits early on from Olivia (Dresser), Alexa (Uga), Mia (Allen), Graziella (Foster) and Jayla (Davila). They all came through in that first inning, and really gave us momentum. We also tightened up our defense as the game went on, making smart plays, while staying composed.”

But the home game against the Mustangs was a completely different story. Warren pitched seven more innings, yielding 11 hits, three walks and nine earned runs. She whiffed one.

The Mustangs scored one in the first and two more in the third, but broke the game wide open with another six in the fourth to take a 9-0 lead. They closed out the offense with three in the fifth to account for the 12-0 final score.

“It was a tough one (against Medford),” said Schiavo. “Peyton (Warren) gave us everything she had out there with Kassidy Rivera behind the plate, but we didn’t do enough behind her to back her up. We made some mistakes that cost us on defense, and against a team like Medford you just can’t afford to give away extra outs. Offensively, we had runners on, but couldn’t produce many hits. That’s something that we’ll focus on to get better in from this point on.”

The Tide only had four hits in the Medford game, and they were all singles by Rivera, Uga, Seward and Warren.

But the offense really got going on Monday afternoon, April 28, when the Everett girls were all over their Malden counterparts to the tune of 32-2 at Malden’s Callahan Park. They then closed out this week against host Chelsea on Wednesday after press deadline, and will remain on the road next week with two games at Lynn’s Breed Field against Lynn Classical (May 5, 4:15 p.m.) and Lynn English (May 7, 5:30 p.m.), before wrapping it up versus non-league Lowell at Lowell’s Martin Field on May 8, starting at 5 p.m. Their next home game at Glendale Park will be against Somerville on Monday, May 12, at 4 p.m.