VAN BUREN – Whitney Flint fired a no-hitter, striking out 15 batters to lead the Ashland Hornets to a 9-1 high school softball victory over the Van Buren Crusaders Tuesday.

Danielle Long hit two singles, a triple and drove in two runs, and Angela Belskis doubled with an RBI for the Hornets.

Megan Lajoie struck out five for the Crusaders.

Ashland (7-1) 100 305 – 9 7 1

Van Buren (3-7) 010 000 – 1 0 4

Flint and Chasse; Lajoie and Deschaines

LCS/MSSM 19, Madawaska 11

At Madawaska, Leanne Kelly had two doubles, a single and drove in three runs to lead Limestone Community School/Maine School of Science and Mathematics past Madawaska.

Brittany Kelly hit a pair of singles and a double to drive in three runs for the Eagles.

Kallie Pelletier had two singles and an RBI for the Owls while Andrea K. Cyr and Beth Gerard had two singles apiece.

LCS/MSSM (8-2) (10) 03 312 – 19 16 3

Madawaska (3-6) 001 173 – 11 6 8

O’Neil, J. Peers (5) and King; Pelletier, A. K. Cyr (5) and A.M. Cyr

Baseball

LCS/MSSM 13, Madawaska 7

At Madawaska, two walks, a passed ball, three errors and Gabe Hrynick’s RBI single produced four fifth-inning runs that erased a 7-4 deficit and run-scoring singles by Dustin Morgan, Andrew Kirchner and Kyle Dempsey keyed a five-run sixth inning that broke the rain-shortened game open.

Hrynick had two singles for Limestone Community School/Maine School of Science and Mathematics.

Billy Roy’s triple, Mark Sirois’ RBI double and Matt Beaulieu’s run-scoring single paced Madawaska.

LCS/MSSM (8-1) 040 045 – 13 6 3

Madawaska (5-6) 311 200 – 7 4 6

Enman, Kirchner (3), Enman (4) and Dempsey; A. Roy, Welch (5), B. Roy (5) and Bechard

Houlton 16, Hodgdon 6

At Houlton Monday, Hunter Caron and Aaron Fitzpatrick each had three singles and three RBIs to lead the Shiretowners past the Hawks.

Corey Lewis tripled and singled for Houlton.

Jesse Lane had three singles and an RBI for Hodgdon.

Hodgdon (1-9) 110 400 – 6 6 2

Houlton (8-2) 523 51x – 16 15 2

Ryan, Dorr (4) and Duff; Caron, Howland (4), Cleary (4) and Austin