Onekama Softball Spring 2006

DATE	RESULT
April 5th at Lake Shore Academy 4:00	OHS Softball: Game Cancelled
April 10 at MCC 4:00	OHS Softball: Photos by Lynn The Portagers opened their season on a rough note loosing both games of a double header to MCC- 9-1 and 15-0.
April 13 at Baldwin	OHS Softball: The Portagers won both games of a double header vs. Baldwin 10-7 & 14-13. Game Photos by Lanette and Lynn
April 17 at Brethren	OHS Softball: Portagers lose two. Gielczyk's report & Lynn's Photos
April 20 vs Bear Lake at Bear Lake	OHS Softball: Portagers win two. Photos
April 24 home vs Northport 4:00	OHS Softball: Portagers win two. Onekama trailed Baldwin, 8-4, heading into the last inning of Monday afternoon’s opening game of a girls softball doubleheader at Brethren High, and rallied for an exciting 9-8 victory. The Portagers overpowered the Panthers, 12-0, in the second game to raise their record to 6-4 overall. Although the Panthers are a Western Michigan D League opponent, the doubleheader was not in the conference
April 27 Home vs Walkerville 4:00	OHS Softball: Softball splits two games. (report from Greg Gielczyk) Playing on Brethren High’s field, Onekama High’s girls softball team split a Western Michigan D League doubleheader with Walkerville on Thursday. The Portagers lost the first game, 16-1, but came back to win the second game, 11-3. Onekama got only four hits in the opener. Ginny Ashworth led the way, going 2-for-2. Kayla Pesko had a double, and Stephanie Ashworth had a base hit. Game two was a completely different story, as the Portagers rapped out 10 hits — including a triple, and two doubles. Bonnie Harthun was 2-for-4 with a double and a triple. Stacey Keith finished 3-for-3 with five runs batted in. Stephanie Ashworth was 1-for-3. Tara Lyman was 1-for-3 with a run batted in, winning pitcher Stevie Gillespie had a double and a run batted in, Chelsea Miller had one hit and a run batted in and Pesko had a base hit. Onekama improved to 7-5 overall, and 5-3 in the conference. The Portagers are at Brethren again on Thursday, May 4, for a league doubleheader against Mason County Eastern. Photographs
May 4 Home vs MCE 4:30	OHS Softball: MCE Game One - The Portagers lost game to the powerhouse Cardinals 14-0 the error bug bit the Portagers as 9 of the 14 runs were unearned- Ginny Ashworth had a pair of singles...and Stacey Keith added a single for the only Portagers hits. Game two the Portagers lost 13-6... the Portagers lone hit was a single by Bonnie Harthun. We had our chances to score but couldn't manage a hit when needed off the very tough MCE pitching staff. Photographs
May 8 Home vs MCC 4:30	OHS Softball: Photos The Portager lost both games of a double header to MCC... 8-3 and 7-1. We just couldn't get any thing going with the bats...Even though we played much better than in the first meeting of the year. Tara Lyman had 2 singles...Stephanie and Ginny Ashworth also had singles also for the games for the only hits. We hit the ball hard but right at someone and their infield play was solid. Same story for game 2...We hit some very hard shots but MCC made all the plays...Tara Lyman had our lone hit with a single.
May 10 Home vs Freesoil 4:30	OHS Softball: The error bug and base running mistakes cost the Portagers a win in the game one losing 10-9 to Mesick bulldogs. The Portagers pounded out 16 hits with Bonnie going 3-4, Tara 2-3, Steph 3-4, Stacey and Kieran 2-4 and Ginny, Alyssa, Chelsea and Stevie all adding hits. " Stevie pitched a very good game - Good enough to win! " In Game 2, pitcher Stevie Gillespie took a hard line drive to the knee forcing her to the bench. Stacey Keith took the mound and pitched a great game leading the Portagers to a 7-2 win. The Portagers had 11 hits with Bonnie, Tara, Steph, Alyssa and Kieran getting a pair of hits and Stacey adding a single. Stacey pitched a great game and our defense played flawless behind our freshman hurler." Photos
May 24 at Pentwater	The Lady Portagers softball team ended the season in style last evening with a big double header sweep of the Falcons in Pentwater 9-5 and 16-6 in a 5 inning game. Stevie Gillespie was great on the mound pitching 2 complete games and 2 big wins. Tara Lyman led the offensive attack going 4-6 with 4 RBI . Bonnie Harthun went 2-5 with a triple and a pair of RBI. Ginny Ashworth added a pair of hits and Kristy Sievert had a big hit in the 2nd game to put the Portagers ahead for good. Stacey Keith had a hit and worked 7 walks out of a fine Pentwater pitching staff and scored 8 runs. Alyssa Cole, Stephanie Ashworth, also added base hits. We played a solid game tonight: offense, defense and pitching. Stevie was great on the mound. Pentwater was the #2 team in the WMD conference having beaten league champion MCE earlier this year. I can't tell you how proud of all these girls I am . We were 1-17 last year and 1-11 in the conference. This year we finished at 7-5 in the conference and 10-10 overall. Our pitching and defense have improved 100% over last year..with Ginny Ashworth behind the plate. Stevie Gillespie on the mound. Bonnie Harthun at shortstop and Tara Lyman in left field we will have some huge holes to fill next year as these girls all graduate this year. But with Freshman pitcher/2nd baseman Stacey Keith & Chelsea Miller..Sophmores Alyssa Cole behind the plate and Kieran O'Conner at 3rd. Juniors Stephanie Ashworth at first , Kayla Pesko and Kristy Sievert in the outfield, we have a good solid set of returning players. ...Coach Keith
May 25 home vs Frankfort
May 30 or June 2-3 Districts at Frankfort	OHS Softball:
	Building the new Baseball & Softball Fields: Photos by Jack Miller