BANGOR – Senior pitchers Shelby Soohey and Jen Jimmo share time in the circle for the Bangor High softball team. In Saturday’s season-opening win, Jimmo pitched while Soohey helped with two RBIs.

Soohey got the ball for Tuesday afternoon’s game against Nokomis of Newport. This time, Jimmo provided the offense.

Soohey threw a three-hitter and struck out nine, while Jimmo recorded the first home run at the Bangor High field in her career, as the Rams earned a 4-1 victory over the Warriors.

Bangor (2-0), one of the more well-rounded teams around, only really struggled to hit consistently. Early on, the bottom of the Rams’ lineup led the way.

In the bottom of the second inning Megan Chase, the ninth batter, hit a groundball into the outfield to plate two runs and give Bangor a 2-0 lead.

Jimmo’s inside-the-park shot in the third, which dropped in left-center and rolled to the outfield fence about 210 feet, made it 3-0.

Jimmo was chugging around the bases even as the Nokomis outfield found the ball and started the relay to the infield. Did she have any thoughts of stopping at third?

“No, not at all,” she said, shaking her head.

“And that’s why we have Jimmo in there,” Bangor coach Lisa Richards said.

Jimmo, who starts at second base when she’s not pitching, was 3-for-4 with the homer and two singles.

The Warriors got on the board in the fourth. Michelle Murray legged out an infield single, got to second on a wild pitch, and scored on an error.

But the Rams added another insurance run when Courtney Smith led off the sixth inning with a single, advanced to third on an error and a wild pitch, and came home on Megan McCrum’s groundout.

Bangor did leave nine runners, including six in scoring position.

Soohey baffled Nokomis with her fastball-changeup combination. She struck out seven of the Warriors’ nine batters at least once and struck out the side in the first, second and fourth innings.

“The changeup was really working,” Soohey said. “It came through for me.”

Soohey did walk five and struggled at time to manage the count. In several at-bats she would get ahead of the batter 1-2 or 0-2 but throw a few balls before walking the batter or getting a strikeout.

“Early on, first [start] of the season, I think I was a little nervous,” she said.

It was the season-opener for the Warriors, who got solid pitching from Murray plus a good defensive effort, and made good contact against the hard-throwing Soohey.

Nokomis’ downfall was stranding 10 runners and leaving at least two baserunners in three innings. Warriors coach Kelly Flagg said her team’s inexperience may have accounted for that.

“We’re still at the point in the season where it’s early and we don’t have a lot of experience, and we were playing a good team,” said Flagg, who was known as Kelly Bowman when she was a standout on the Nokomis girls and University of Maine women’s basketball teams.

Bowman was pleased with the Warriors’ defense and pitcher Murray. The junior doesn’t throw hard, and she doesn’t have a big arsenal of pitches, but Murray does have one thing going for her, which she showed with just two walks.

“She’s very accurate,” Flagg said. “We’ve been working with her and she’s really improved.”

RAMS 4, WARRIORS 1

Nokomis (0-1) Bangor (2-0)

Player AB R H BI Player AB R H BI

Turner, lf 2 0 1 0 Tower, ss 3 0 0

Holland, c 4 0 0 0 Jimmo, 2b 4 1 1

Clark, ss 3 0 0 0 Dube, c 3 0 0 0

Grignon, 3b 3 0 1 0 Huckins, 1b 3 0 0

Bowden, cf 2 0 0 0 Soohey, p 2 0 0

Murray, p 3 1 1 0 a-Wright 0 0 0

Beauregard, rf 2 0 0 0 Smith, cf 3 0

Paradis, 2b 3 0 0 0 McCrum, 3b 3 1 1

Hopkins, 1b 3 0 0 0 S. Chase, lf 2 0 0

M. Chase, rf 3 0 2 2

Totals 25 1 3 0 Totals 26 4 8 4

a-ran for Soohey in the third

Nokomis 000 100 0 ? 1

Bangor 021 001 x ? 4

E?Clark 2, Paradis; Tower; LOB?Nokomis 9, Bangor 7; HR?Jimmo; S?Dube; SF?S. Chase

Nokomis IP H R ER BB SO

Murray (L, 0-1) 6 8 4 1 2 0

Bangor IP H R ER BB SO

Soohey (W, 1-0) 7 3 1 0 5 9

HBP?Grignon by Soohey; WP?Murray; Soohey; PB?Holland; T?1:41; ATT?50 (est.)