Top-seed Lady Scots stunned by Mitty

“We hit the ball actually very good,” Carlmont head coach Marco Giuliacci said. “We had a lot of hard line drives right at them. Sometimes that’s just the way it goes. It was just one of those days.”

Starting pitcher Mailey McLemore hadn’t lost a game in over a month, but got off to a rocky start in the first. The senior issued a walk, then gave up a two-run home run when she tipped a changeup to the opposing hitter.

“She pitched a phenomenal game,” Giuliacci said. “She made a couple mistakes in the first inning … but the two-run homer was really not her fault.”

Mitty (18-7) led the rest of the way, though Carlmont had its chances in the late going. The Scots left eight runners on base throughout, including five in the final two frames.

After stranding runners on second and third in the sixth, Carlmont rallied in the seventh. Sophomore pinch-hitter Sam Chu opened the inning with a double and junior Logan Bonetti followed with a single to put runners at the corners. Amanda Kondo then singled home Chu for the Scots’ only run of the game.

Carlmont went on to load the bases with two outs on a walk to junior Ashley Trierweiler. But the game, and the season, ended for the Scots on a groundout.

“Obviously everybody was super upset about it,” Giuliacci said. “We knew it would be a tough game but we thought we’d come out ahead.”

Trierweiler had one hit to extend her hitting streak to 20 games. The junior totaled 54 hits on the season, ranking second all-time among single-season leaders in program history. She fell three hits shy of Janelle Yousef’s total of 57 in 1999.

“She had 50 last year too,” Giuliacci said. “So that’s two years in a row with above 50 hits. She’s just incredible. And everybody around the league knows who she is. … She’s just amazing.”

With two more rounds remaining in the CCS playoffs, and Carlmont having cancelled two non-league games during the regular season — one due to a rainout, and another to the opponent cancelling — the record was certainly within Trierweiler’s reach.

“She definitely would have got it if we played the full schedule,” Giuliacci said.

Giuliacci said he expects to return to coach the Scots next year.

“This team was phenomenally talented,” Giuliacci said. “Probably the most talented I’ve ever coached. We definitely had a team that could go all the way. … I thought player for player we were more talented than them. Just things didn’t go our way.”