Lakers fall to Richmond in D West final

    STANDISH — A seven-run bottom of the second inning helped Richmond High School defeat Greenville High School, 7-2, in the 2014 Class D West softball championship under the lights on June 18 at Richard M. Bailey Field at St. Joseph’s College.

    The Lakers would score twice in the game, junior Molly Foley drove in junior Lindsay Fenn on a fielder’s choice in the top of the fourth and then again in the sixth on another Foley fielder’s choice to score Fenn, but the Richmond freshman pitcher Meranda Martin gave up only two hits and one walk in the complete-game win on the mound.
    The victory improved the top-seeded Bobcats to 16-0 on the season, and gave the team its third win of the year over No. 3 Greenville (who ended 2014 with a record of 13-6). The Lakers advanced to the regional final for the second consecutive season, and were in the D West final four for the fifth year in a row.
    Richmond won its fifth straight Class D West championship, and seventh in the last 11 years, to move on to the Class D state championship June 21 at Brewer High School against Eastern Maine champion and No. 1 seed Limestone Community School/Maine School of Mathematics and Science.
    Greenville’s two seniors are Jasmine Senatus and Kaylee Warman.