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BREWER – The way the teams were divided for Tuesday evening’s Penobscot Valley Athletic conference all-star softball game left teammates playing against teammates and friends playing against friends.
It also featured sisters going against sisters.
Sandra DeFilipp, who is a recent Brewer High graduate, and Sarah DeFilipp, who completed her freshman year at Brewer, were on different squads. And in the first at-bat in the bottom of the first inning, with Sarah DeFilipp at third base, Sandra DeFilipp found herself at the plate.
“It was a little different,” Sandra DeFilipp said. “We’ve only played together this one year, but I’ve never had to play against her.”
Sandra DeFilipp won that at-bat, bunting and beating out the throw from her sister, and eventually scoring on a triple by Katahdin of Sherman Station’s Morgan Anderson for the “home” team.
But Sarah DeFilipp and the rest of “visiting” team put up 11 runs in the fifth and sixth innings to earn a 19-3 victory.
The home team gave up 15 walks in those two innings.
The teams were divided randomly with at least four pitchers and two catchers per squad. The game went eight innings to give each pitcher two innings of work.
Jodie Merchant of Ellsworth, and Bucksport players Jana Richards and Jessie Taylor, hit consecutive singles in the third inning to help stake the visiting team to a 5-2 lead in the third inning.
Sarah Belden of Presque Isle smacked a two-run double in the top of the seventh for the visitors.
Merchant and Taylor each had two RBIs. Merchant also tripled.
Pitching for the visiting team, Old Town’s Sarah Metivier, Sherri Capponi of Brewer, Schenck of East Millinocket’s Lynn Farrington, and Shelby Soohey of Bangor allowed four hits.
“You just do what you’ve done all season,” said Farrington, who hadn’t pitched since June 4. “It all comes back to you when you stand on the mound. It’s just fun. … My catcher [Bucksport’s Jana Richards] was awesome. She called everything.”
Farrington and Schenck teammate Jessica Day were on opposite teams. At one point, Day was waiting to bat against Farrington and urged Foxcroft’s Mandi Murray to “get a big hit.” Farrington didn’t think anything of it.
“It’s no big deal at all,” Farrington said with a smile. “I threw against her in batting practice all season.”
Sandra DeFilipp was hoping to face her sister in a pitching situation.
“I’ve never, ever had to hit against her,” Sandra said. “I guess her changeup is supposed to be great, so I wanted to knock it out of here.”
Sandra DeFilipp was razzed a bit by the crowd for wearing a red and white batting helmet belonging to Bangor, which is Brewer’s longtime rival. A Hermon helmet in the dugout was too big for her, and she had to wear something at the plate.
DeFilipp made up for it with the orange wire strung through her braces.
TaraLee Webster, who was the ace pitcher for Searsport until it was discovered she had broken her wrist a few weeks ago, scored four times as a pinch runner.
A skills competition was held before the all-star game.
Fans got a charge out of the home run derby. Bangor’s Megan Huckins hit five homers, including one she blasted over the 230-foot leftfield fence. It is believed that only once in a game has a home run been hit out of Coffin.
Katie Lindemann of Hampden won the running competition in 12.02 seconds. Old Town’s Meghan King beat Nokomis of Newport’s Kaycea Grignon in a throw-off to win the throwing accuracy contest.
Visiting team 005 174 20 -19 9 1
Home team 200 100 00 – 3 4 2
Metivier, Capponi (3), Farrington (5), Soohey (7) and Richards, Belden (3), Richards (5), Belden (7); White, Jimmo (3), Riitano (5), Dyer (7) and King, Reynolds (3), King (5), Reynolds (7)
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