Not What We Expected: Webster 11, Northwest-Cedar Hill 1

Our advance scouting report clued us in to Northwest’s 20-10 defeat of Lindbergh yesterday, plus their winning of the Feeder League Championship last year. With Hannah Jansen lending her skills to the varsity today, we made some last-minute changes to our line-up to strengthen our left-side defense against an expected onslaught from Lion bats.

Allegedly their varsity drafted even more players for that game (won by Webster, 8-2) than Coach Gibson. He also had to discipline a couple of his players (I wonder what that’s like? Glad that’s never been an issue for me here at Webster.), so he claimed he was playing short-handed.

Our battery of Taylor Knapp (winning her sixth game) and Sarah Sammon kept the Northwest bats from putting anything together; add to that good base-running, errorless defense and timely hitting and the 11-1 victory was kind of anti-climactic. Noel Spatola had a big game in the 9-hole and “Sockeye” Sammon had a huge at bat in the first to net two runs and give the Statesmen a lead we never relinquished.

As always, our Webster girls gave lessons in both softball and sportsmanship and represented their team and their school with class. Thanks to everyone who has helped push the views of this blog past the 20,000 mark today. Wow! And the girls get credit for many of these pictures. 

We anticipate a tough game tomorrow at home against the Oakville Tigers and expect to have our full team with us. However, as the season winds down, there may be some flux in our roster as Coach Gibson starts to take a look at some of players. That might also impact the (home) conference game against Summit this Thursday.

Upcoming schedule notes:

• We have added a game against Kirkwood (at Plymouth) next Wednesday to replace the Parkway West game that essentially went away and became a Varsity-B contest.

• Next Thursday will be our “Sophomore Day” contest. Technically it’s not our last home game, but I don’t want to take a chance on a rainout costing us the chance to honor the outstanding leadership group of sophomores who have led us this year. Each sophomore will start against Ritenour and (probably) play the entire game, both afield and at bat. That is our last conference game, as well. Mark your calendars.