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Pallotti Tosses No-Hitter in Suffield Softball Win Over Enfield

Junior Lexi Pallotti allows no hits while belting four hits of her own in 17-2 victory over Raiders.

What a difference a day makes.

Less than 24 hours after a hard-fought, extra-inning victory at Haddam-Killingworth, the Suffield High School softball team returned to its home field to take on NCCC foe Enfield.

After hurling all eight innings the day before, ace starting pitcher Laura Somerville was given the day off by coach Johanne Presser, enabling Lexi Pallotti to make her first start of the season.

Pallotti responded by allowing the Raiders no hits, and the Wildcats scored seven runs in the first inning en route to a 17-2 victory in a game stopped in the fifth inning due to the 15-run rule.

"Lexi did a great job for us out there today, especially since she hasn't pitched since her freshman year," Presser said. 

Pallotti struck out 11 batters, and helped herself at the plate by collecting four hits and scoring three runs.

After striking out the side in the first, Pallotti led off the Wildcats first with a triple, and eventually scored the only run Suffield would need on an error. A run-scoring triple by Katie Mahoney, a two-run double by Claire Margiatti and an RBI double by Sam Thomas gave the Wildcats a 7-0 lead.

In the second, Anna Boucher singled and eventually scored on a Margiatti double.

Enfield appeared to get its first hit in the third when, with a runner at first, Kristen Serafin ripped a screaming one-hopper into right field, The ball was hit so sharply, however, that Angela Banning retrieved it quickly and fired to second base for a forceout, turning a single into a fielder's choice.

Suffield added two more in the third on a Pallotti single and run-scoring doubles by Boucher and Clarissa Burke. Enfield got one back in the fourth on a pair of walks and two wild pitches.

The Wildcat bats got right back to work, pushing across four more runs in the fourth. Margiatti cracked her third double of the day and came home on a single by Thomas. Triples by Pallotti and Kacey Gifford, sandwiched around a wild pitch, and a single by Boucher made it 14-1.

Enfield manufactured another run in the fifth on a walk, a passed ball and an infield error, but the Wildcats reached the 15-run margin on a single by Marissa Webb, a Margiatti triple, an infield error and fittingly, a game-ending single by Pallotti.

In addition to Pallotti, Margiatti crushed four hits, knocked in four runs and scored three times to pace the Wildcats' 17-hit attack. Boucher had three hits, scored three runs and knocked in a pair, while Thomas added two hits and two runs batted in.

Suffield (5-0) hosts Bolton Thursday at 3:45 p.m. Enfield (0-4) travels to crosstown rival Fermi Thursday at 10 a.m.


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