HOULTON – Courtney Putnam and Chelsi Murray hit two-run singles in a decisive nine-run second inning to lead the Houlton Shiretownwers to a 13-3 high school softball win over the Presque Isle Wildcats Friday.

Erika Lackey had a triple and two singles and drove in a run for Houlton. Lainey Herring doubled and singled and had an RBI. Winning pitcher Nikki Eastman and Murray had two singles and two RBIs apiece and Casey Faulkingham had a pair of singles and an RBI.

Allisen Young and Allison Donovan had two singles each for Presque Isle and Donovan had an RBI.

Presque Isle (2-2) 002 000 1 – 3 7 7

Houlton (2-1) 090 040 x – 13 14 3

Palmer and Young; Eastman and Murray

Ashland 17, Fort Fairfield 2

At Fort Fairfield, Whitney Flint pitched a one-hitter to lead the Hornets to victory.

Flint also had three singles, three RBIs and three runs scored, while Taylor Baker also had three singles and Mindy Chasse singled twice.

Maryl Shaw singled for Fort Fairfield.

Ashland 570 05 – 17 17

Fort Fairfield 101 00 -2 1

Flint and Chasse; Towle and Shaw

Calais 7, Woodland 1

At Woodland, Macey Gillespie hit a double and a single and knocked in a run to help lift Calais over Woodland.

Tessa Clark, Toni Cole and Jen Foss each hit two singles and drove in a run for Calais.

Julia Nicholas hit an RBI double and a single to lead the Dragons. Cali Anthony added two singles.

Calais (5-0) 030 101 2 – 7 11 1

Woodland (2-1) 000 100 0 – 1 7 1

Clark and Wilkinson; Bassett and Flaherty

Sumner 4, Orono 2

At East Sullivan, Tashia Daley allowed two runs, none earned, on two hits and three walks while recorded 14 strikeouts to lift Sumner over Orono.

Julia Johnson hit a single and a two-run home run for the Tigers. Lona Sargent hit a solo home run in the first and Kayla Higgins doubled.

Chelsey Paul and Jody Keezer singled for Orono.

Orono (5-1) 010 010 0 – 2 2 3

Sumner (2-1) 100 201 x – 4 6 3

Pavento and Fox; Daley and Higgins

Baseball

Ashland 16, Fort Fairfield 6

At Fort Fairfield, Tony Baker hit a double and two singles and recorded four RBIs as Ashland beat Fort Fairfield.

Lucas Belanger hit an RBI single for the Hornets and Henry Milligan scored three runs.

Josh Churchill led Fort Fairfield with two singles and an RBI. Pat Kinsey and Austin Bixler each hit RBI singles.

Ashland (2-0) 303 65 – 16 6 1

Fort Fairfield (0-2) 000 06 – 6 5 6

Cote, Baker (5), J. Belanger (5) and L. Belanger; Closson, Towle (4) and Booth, Bixler (5)

Houlton 5, Presque Isle 4

At Houlton, Landon York delivered a two-out sacrifice fly with two outs in the bottom of the seventh to give the Shires the win.

Ben Austin had three singles and knocked in three runs for Houlton.

Matt Chase had a sacrifice fly and Dillon Kingsbury an RBI single for Presque Isle.

Presque Isle (1-3) 001 030 0 – 4 4 4

Houlton (2-1) 102 000 2 – 5 7 4

Shaw, Cassidy (4) and Ford; Hill and Harvey

Mountain Val. 10, Georges Val. 7

At Thomaston, Thursday, Dean McCrillis hit a three-run double in the fifth inning to help lead Mountain Valley of Rumford to victory over Georges Valley.

Cody McPherson hit a solo home run in the fifth for Mountain Valley. Cam Kaubris singled twice and McCrillis added a single.

Brandon Staples homered to lead Georges Valley. Larry Platt and Larson Platt both singled twice.

Mountain Valley (2-0) 210 051 1 – 10 7 3

Georges Valley (1-1) 100 402 0 – 7 10 4

Blais, McPherson (4), Gagnon (7) and Staires; Masterson, Shields (5), Carpenter (7) and Caron

Stearns 13, Piscataquis 3

At Millinocket, Justin Pelkey hit two doubles and a single while driving in three runs to lift Stearns over Piscataquis of Guilford.

Cory Barnett had two singles and two RBIs for the Minutemen and Jared Manzo added three singles and an RBI.

Tobey Cleaves paced the Pirates with a two-run double.

Piscatauis (1-3) 002 001 – 3 5 1

Stearns (2-2) 212 305 – 13 14 1

Tompkins, Russell (6) and Shufelt; G. Nanzo and Cyr

Woodland 5, Calais 4

At Woodland, Aaron St. Pierre singled three times and knocked in a run to help lift Woodland over Calais.

Scott Boomer doubled and singled for the Dragons and Ben Sears added two singles.

Matt O’Brien and Zack Newman each singled twice to lead Calais. Ben Pagels added a double.

Calais (3-2) 003 000 1 – 4 5 0

Woodland (3-0) 001 220 x – 5 8 2

Gillespie and Waycott; Boomer, James (6) and Sears

Shead 9, Washington Acad. 7

At Eastport, Tom Pottle had two singles, a double and three RBIs and Joel Francis a two-run single to lead Shead to the victory.

Tim Barnes chipped in three singles for the host Tigers.

Joey Hunter and John Hall each had two singles and two RBIs for Washington Academy of East Machias. Dan Seamans singled twice.

Washington Acad. (1-3) 101 040 1 – 7 8 4

Shead (1-1) 201 051 x – 9 11 5

Hall, Lenfesty (6) and Lenfesty, Sprague (6); Lewey and Pottle

Orono 10, Sumner 9

At East Sullivan, Sean Kilpatrick hit an RBI single in the seventh inning the break the 9-9 tie and give Orono the win over Sumner.

Anthony Cyr hit a two-run double in the seventh to tie it up for Orono. Kirk Francis and Brandon LeVasseur each singled twice and knocked in a run.

Mickey Manning paced Sumner with four singles and two RBIs. Joe Simmons added two singles and two RBIs.

Orono (3-3) 300 111 4 – 10 15 1

Sumner (0-3) 105 012 0 – 9 12 1

Doughty, Francis (7) and LeVasseur; Boyle and Manning