YOUTH SOFTBALL: EYOTA NATION 10U TEAMS FINISH SEASON IN JERSEY (2024-07-31)

Tioga County Sports Report
NEW JERSEY — The Eyota Nation - Hall softball team went 5-1 to place second at a 10U tournament in New Jersey over the weekend. Also competing was Eyota Nation - Kuratnick, which went 2-3.

Eyota - Hall 10, NJ Diamonds 2
Layla Robinson struck out 11 batters to lead Eyota in the tournament opener. She gave up two runs on two hits and two walks.

Lexi Mott wielded the big bat, going 2-for-2 with a home run, double, two runs and two RBI while Maela Thorpe went 3-for-3 with a double and three RBI.

The dinger came with two gone in the top of the first inning to make it a 2-0 ball game. Mott drove in another run with a third-inning double as Eyota went up, 4-0.

They would lead 5-0 until the Diamonds scored twice in the home half of the fourth, But Eyota tacked on five insurance runs in the fourth. Thorpe’s two-run double closed out the scoring.

Lindsey Farry was 2-for-3 with a double and two runs; Terrianna Orshal contributed a hit, two runs, three RBI and two stolen bases; Alannah Hall had a hit, run and RBI; Harper Liechty chipped in with a run and an RBI; Ali Denman scored twice; and Molly McGrath and Lydia Chase added one hit each.

Eyota - Hall 4, Sabre 1
Chase stymied Sabre on two hits while striking out nine and walking seven.

Eyota scored twice in the top of the first and led 4-0 after 3 ½ innings.

Orshal was 2-for-2 with a pair of doubles, two runs and an RBI to lead the hitters. Mott recorded a hit, run and RBI; Nina Gallagher added a hit and an RBI; Farry had a hit and a run; Robinson had a hit; and Hall drove in a run. Denman, Mott and Farry swiped two bases apiece.

Eyota - Hall 6, Untamed Softball 0
Layla Robinson had another solid showing in the circle, fanning 10 batters. She surrendered just two hits and one base on balls.

Eyota made the most out of four hits, scoring two in the bottom of the first, two in the second and two in the fourth. They also picked up nine walks.

Liechty had a double, run and RBI; Farry helped out with a run, two RBI and two stolen bases; Chase added a double and two runs; Mott registered a hit and two RBI; McGrath had a hit; and Thorpe and Robinson tacked on a run apiece; and Orshal brought in a run.

Eyota - Hall 10, Eyota - Kuratnick 2
A pair of Eyota teams squared off to begin Sunday’s action and the Hall team rode a six-run advantage to the victory.

Mott started the scoring with a first-inning double and Gallagher highlighted a four-run third with a two-run triple.

Khloe Chamberlin’s two-run single put the Kuratnick squad on the board in the fourth, but Orshal’s two-run single in the fifth made it a 9-2 contest.

Mott and Gallagher paced Hall, with Mott going 3-for-3 with a double, run, two RBI and three stolen bases while Gallagher was 2-for-2 with a triple, three runs, two RBI and two stolen bases. Liechty went 2-for-3 with two RBI; Orshal had a hit, two runs and two RBI; Thorpe and McGrath contributed one hit, one run and one RBI each; Hall and Robinson scored one run apiece; and Chase tacked on a hit.

Chamberlain accounted for one hit and two RBI for Kuratnick; Ashlyn Zandt recorded a hit and a run; Paislee Benning added a run; and Danae M. and Savannah Taylor had one hit each.

Robinson earned the win, striking out eight in three innings of hitless pitching. Chase scattered four hits and a walk while fanning four in two innings. Arianna Kuratnick recorded seven strikeouts in the circle for her team.

Eyota - Hall 5, Vikings 0
Eyota parlayed a five-run third into its second shutout of the tourney.

Thorpe sandwiched a single between walks to Chase and Robinson, and then bases on balls to McGrath and Farry to make it 2-0. Gallagher doubled the advantage with a two-run single, and Mott plated the final run with a base hit.

Gallagher finished with a hit and two RBI; Mott had a hit and an RBI; Thorpe chipped in with a hit and a run; Farry and McGrath added a run and RBI apiece; and Cash and Denman scored one run each.

Robinson surrendered just one hit while fanning a dozen batters.

Empire State Huskies 8, Eyota - Hall 2
The championship game saw the Huskies take advantage of a five-run third and three-run fourth.

Four errors helped Empire State in the third as they managed just two hits. A two-run single followed by an RBI double helped fatten the cushion in the fourth.

Gallagher put Eyota on the board with a two-out single in the home half of the third while Mott’s two-out single in the fifth scored the team’s other run. Denman scored both Eyota runs.

Farry and Hall contributed base hits to give Eyota four for the game.

Jersey Intensity 11, Eyota - Kuratnick 6
Jersey built a 9-0 cushion through the first 1 ½ innings and Eyota was unable to catch up, although it did close the gap to 10-6 at one point.

Kennedy Ulrich grounded out to first to score Paislee Benning and Ally R. in the bottom of the second.

In the third, Evelyn Waite’s double plated Chamberlin and Danae M. Following a Kuratnick double, Hadley Liechty singled in Waite, then Kuratnick stole home to make it 10-6.

Ally R. went 2-for-2 with a run; Waite added a hit, run and two RBI; Kuratnick had a hit and a run; Liechty added a hit and RBI; Ulrich drove in a pair of runs; and Chamberlin, Danae M. and Benning scored on run apiece.

East Coast Tsunami 6, Eyota - Kuratnick 3
Eyota fell behind, 5-0, in the top of the first inning.

Zandt singled and Chamberlin followed with an RBI double to get a run back in the home half of the inning.

Hadley Hoover and Zandt drew walks in the third and both scored on a Danae M. single.

Hoover and Zandt added two stolen bases apiece to the Kuratnick effort.

Eyota - Kuratnick 12, Kraze 4
Down, 4-2, Eyota erupted for five runs in the bottom of the second and five more in the third to pull away.

Chamberlain’s two-run inside-the-park homer scored Zandt for an early 2-0 advantage.

Seven walks helped Kraze take a 4-2 lead in the second, but Eyota rode a Kuratnick double; singles by Ally R., Ulrich, Zandt and Chamberlin; and walks to Benning and Hoover to a 7-4 lead after two.

Taylor and Ally R. smacked RBI doubles in the third; Danae M. and Waite had singles; Liechty, Benning and Hoover received walks; and Ulrich was hit by a pitch in the third.

Chamberlain went 2-for-2 with a run and three RBI; Ally R. was 2-for-2 with a run and two RBI; and Taylor was 2-for-2 with a run and an RBI. Ulrich chipped in with a hit, run and two RBI; Zandt and Waite had a hit, run and RBI each; Danae M and Kuratnick added a hit and a run apiece; Liechty had a run and an RBI; Benning scored twice; and Hoover had a run.

Kuratnick overcame 11 walks to pick up the victory in the circle, striking out four while scattering three hits.

Eyota - Kuratnick 8, Jersey Intensity 2
Taylor smacked a pair of homers as Eyota avenged a loss in its tourney opener. The dingers came in the bottom of the first and third, and accounted for five runs.

Eyota led 4-0 after an inning and 5-0 through two.

Taylor was also 3-for-3 with two runs and five RBI at the dish while Danae M. was 3-for-3 with two runs and an RBI. Zandt, Chamberlain and Kuratnick recorded one hit and one run apiece; and Ally R. and Ulrich added a hit and an RBI each. Waite added a hit and Hoover tacked on a run.

Kuratnick struck out six, walked five, allowed three hits and gave up one earned run over four innings for the win.

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