DALTON, Mass. — Julia Devoti struck out 6 and scattered 3 hits Saturday to guide the Berkshire Liberty travel softball team to a 7- earn more than the Greylock Thunder Saturday in the very first game of the 16-and-under division at the Dalton CRA Invitational Softball Event.




The Liberty bought all the offense it required in the base of the 2nd, when Emily Steurernagle drew a leadoff wander, went to 3rd on a dropped 3rd strike and scored on yet another dropped 3rd strike to make it 1-.




That established a tone for the game that observed the Liberty acquire advantage of pitches to the backstop and glitches to score all of its operates.




Steuernagle sscored 2 times in the acquire. Katie Gappa and Emily Gilmore each singled and scored a operate.




Devoti stranded 7 runners in the recreation shortened to six innings by the tournament’s time rule.




In the to start with, the Thunder had two runners on foundation when Devoti served up a floor ball to Tori Gilmore at shortstop.




In the sixth, Greylock all over again had two runners on with two out, but Devoti finished the danger with a ground ball back to the circle.




Mikayla Ranzoni, Bella Viola and Chloe Vanuni every experienced a solitary for the Thunder.




Rylynn Witek struck out 9 for the Thunder.




In its next match on Saturday, the Liberty beat the Halfmoon (N.Y.) Lightning, also by a rating of 13-5.


That gave the Liberty a 2- report, tying it with the Guilderland (N.Y.) Bulldogs and Lady Outlaws out of Albany, N.Y., in the six-team subject. Based on run-differential, the Liberty are seeded third headed into Sunday’s knockout rounds. That sets up a rematch against Halfmoon at 8 a.m. with the winner to deal with Guilderland in the semi-finals at 11:30.


The Greylock Thunder, in the meantime, dropped to Guilderland, 8-, and was seeded fourth. The Thunder will deal with Adams-Cheshire-Savoy at 8 a.m. for the right to perform the top rated seeded Outlaws at 11:30.


A person CRA Tourney champion was decided on Saturday.


In the 12-and-underneath Division, the ACS Swat swept the initial two video games of a best-of-3 collection against the Greylock Thunder, profitable by scores of 12-9 and 16-4 to just take the title.


In the 10U division, the Greylock Thunder attained a bye into Sunday afternoon’s championship match, wherever it will encounter the winner of ACS and Dalton, who satisfy at 1:15 p.m.


In the 14U division, a four-team semi-last round gets underway at 9:45 a.m. at Pine Grove Park.


The major-seeded Berkshire Force 14U squad, which went 2- in pool enjoy, will encounter the Bolt out of South County in 1 semi-ultimate. In the other, host Dalton (1-1) will just take on ACS (1-1). The winners will satisfy at 1:15 p.m.