MONROE – It was everything a fan of high school softball could want. Two rival teams pitching their aces and both girls living up to the hype.Â
For visiting Heritage it was Danica Fuller and for the home Adams Central Jets it was Addie Baker. To add to the display, the game was broadcast live on WZBD.Â
There were more strikeouts than hits in the game and the Jets got on the board first with a run in the third inning.
Any fan of the Jets could guess who might drive in the first run of the game and that fan would not be wrong when they guessed that the RBI machine herself, Melina Peralez, drove in Josie Zimmerman with two outs after Zimmerman led off the inning with a single.
Fuller broke a string of eight batters in a row retired by Baker with a two-out single to left in the top of the third, but it was not until the sixth inning that they finally tested the AC starter.
Lucy Buuck took advantage of a bad throw on a leadoff bunt and the error was compounded by a second one when Kendall Zelt bunted to Fuller, putting two runners on for senior Claire Bickel.
Heritage sent the runners and Adams Central threw the ball into left field, allowing the run to score and the game to be tied.Â
Jenna Cook and Peralez both got hits against Fuller to lead of the bottom of the sixth but Fuller clamped down and got the next three batters to send the game to the seventh.
Heritage tried to mount a rally, putting two runners on with two outs but Buuck flew out to Sydney Jauregui in left.
In the bottom of the inning, Brianna Cook doubled to left and then took third on a wild pitch. She came home to score on a ground ball to second by Zimmerman.Â
Fuller struck out eight and allowed six hits, walking just one.
Baker allowed only four hits and the one unearned run, striking out three.
Peralez was the only player in the contest with two hits.