Page 14 THE EVERETT ADVOCATE – FRiDAy, ApRil 26, 2024 Everett’s young players showing signs of growth amid two more losses on the diamond Tide baseball gets ready to take on the Red Devils again on Monday at Chelsea’s Carter park By Joe McConnell A fter beating Chelsea in the opener, 14-4, the youthful Everett High School baseball team (1-5) went on to lose its next five games, the latest against Revere (9-1, April 17) and Medford (11-5, April 22). However, it has not been all that bad for them. The past five games could be summed up easily to one bad inning, otherwise the Everett boys have been quite competitive against their Greater Boston League (GBL) rivals. First-year Everett head coach Malik Love understands it’s all fixable through more playing time in order to get that necessary varsity experience. “We are shooting ourselves in the foot right now,” said Love. “We have a young group of talented players, who are just making mental Everett’s Alex Lara at bat for the Tide during last week’s game against Revere. mistakes, usually in just one bad inning.” Alex Lara started the game on the mound against Revere, but after giving up a leadoff double and walking The Tide’s baserunner Jevaun Berberena takes a nice lead off first base against Revere during last week’s battle in Revere. (Advocate file photos) the next two batters to load the bases he had to head to the sidelines when a hard-hit ball hit his hand. Isaiah Goffigan relieved him, but by the time the dust settled the Patriots had already scored eight runs. It was basically an even game for the next six innings. “Teams like Revere are not much better than us; they just capitalize on our mistakes, again usually because of one bad inning,” said Love. Freshman reliever Armani BASEBALL | SEE PAGE 16 Tide softball prevails past visiting Revere to secure sixth straight win After being upset by Medford, Everett closes out this week with two against Malden By Joe McConnell Warren then came in to settle T he Everett High School softball team (6-1) defeated three more opponents during school vacation week to remain perfect on the season until they faced host Medford on April 22. Leading up to the Medford contest, the Tide girls were all over non-league O’Bryant (16-8), before taking down Greater Boston League (GBL) rivals Somerville (12-1) and Revere (16-7). On April 12 at Madison Park, coach Stacy Poste-Schiavo’s team doubled up O’Bryant to kick off April vacation on a successful note. Freshman pitcher Mia Allen started the game against O’Bryant before Peyton Warren made a triumphant return after taking a line shot off her elbow against Lynn English. Allen pitched one complete inning. During her stint in the circle, she walked seven that led to seven runs in the second. She ended up allowing no hits, while fanning two. things down, yielding just two walks, while issuing no hits that resulted in zero earned runs over three innings. She also whiffed two. The game was called after four. Olivia Dresser ignited the offense in the first inning with a one-out double. She moved to third on a passed ball, before coming home on a hard hit single to left by Ashley Seward. But O’Bryant tied up the proceedings in the home half of the first. The Tide girls broke the game wide open in the second with 13 runs. Emilia Maria-Babcock and Allen led off the frame with walks. They moved up into scoring position on a passed ball. Arabella Cvitkusic then reached on an infield single to load the bases. Maria-Babcock broke the tie by scoring on a wild pitch. Kassidy Rivera then reloaded the bases with a walk for Emma Longmore, who doubled home two. Dresser kept up the offensive surge with a run producing single. Seward then doubled home Longmore, before Gianna Masucci also came through with a double that produced two more runs. Maria-Babcock, up again for the second time in the inning, singled home Masucci. Allen and Cvitkusic followed respectively with a single and a walk to load the bases again for Longmore, who singled in two more, before Dresser blasted a three-run homerun to close out the uprising. But O’Bryant got seven of those runs back, mainly as a result of free passes in the bottom half of the second. After Bryanna Mason singled in the third, Masucci belted an apparent inside-the-park homerun, but was thrown out at the plate after Mason scored the team’s 15th run. In the fourth, Alessandra Foster singled, and eventually scored the final run of the game on another base hit. Somerville was next up for SOFTBALL | SEE PAGE 16 Tide’s Emilia Maria Babcock makes contact with the ball during previous action against Lynn Classical.
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