Plenty of runs come for Posen softball team in hot start

by Peter Jakey, Managing Editor

The Viking softball team is off to a hot start this spring with convincing sweeps of Au Gres in the conference opener as well as the season opener against Rudyard. The girls scored six runs in the first two innings of the season and haven?t stopped scoring runs since. They put up 58 runs in four games. The scores were 17-2 and 17-4 at Au Gres and 10 run victories on the home turf against Rudyard. They bring a 4-0 overall record and 2-0 mark into today?s home doubleheader against Hale.

With Leanne Buczkowski on the mound in game one Monday at Au Gres, the Vikings bats set the tone with six runs in the first inning. The host Wolverines came back with two runs in the bottom of the second inning, before the Vikings erupted with their biggest inning of the young season with nine. The score was 15-2 at the end of the third. Every player had a hit.

Buczkowski did the rest, striking out seven and allowing only one base on balls in three innings of work. The runs were unearned. Lindsay Ponik pitched the fourth and struck out two. BUCZKOWSKI, WHO led the ?09 team with a .513 average, continued her hot hitting ways in 2010, with an 8-for-9 performance at the plate in the doubleheader, which included two doubles.

Judy Romel had a game-high fo

ur RBI, while going 2-for-3. Anna Couture, Ashley Meyers and Ponik all had two hits apiece. There were 15 hits in all. That was a warm-up for game two as the girls upped the ante with 22 hits. Cheryl Romel (4-for-4, 2B, 4 RBI) and Buczkowski (5-for-5) had perfect nights at the plate. Janice Ciarkowski started the game and pitched three innings to get the win and went 3-for-5 with a RBI. She gave up two hits and two walks, while striking out two. Couture finished the final two innings (2 H, 3 K?s, 3 unearned runs). Abbie Delekta was 3-for-5 (RBI) and Ponik was 2-for-3. Again, everyone had at least one hit.

?The team really adjusted and hit the ball hard throughout both games,? said coach Glenn Budnick. ?We need to be sharper defensively, but that should improve as the season progresses.? IN GAME one against Rudyard, Buczkowski induced 13 ground ball outs and an infield pop out. Meyers was 2-for-3 (RBI), Buczkowski had a double and two RBI, while Couture knocked in a pair. Ponik pitched six innings of game two. Her pitching line follows: 3 H, 1 ER, 2 W, 8 K. Ciarkowski mopped up the seventh (0 H, 1 K, 3 W). Buczkowski was 3-for-5 (3B), Ponik 3-for-4, LeAnn Strzelecki 2-for-3 (2B, 2 RBI) and Cheryl Romel 2-for-4 (2B, 2 RBI). The Vikings will be in the annual Rogers City tournament Saturday and then at Alcona Tuesday.

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