STANDISH — Just call them the Bash Sisters.
The Tovey sisters, Christine and Kellie, smacked two of five home runs for the Sanford softball team in its 11-5 rout of Bonny Eagle on Wednesday afternoon.
With the win, the Redskins begin a two-game winning streak, jumping out of the gates with a 2-1 record on the season.
Out of the 10 hits Sanford collected on the day, eight were for extra bases.
“I haven’t seen that much power from one of my teams,” Sanford head coach Kristy Cochin said. “I don’t want to say it surprised me, but it takes me aback that they can actually get their bats going like that.”
Sanford provided most of its muscle in the fifth inning, collecting six runs to take a 9-1 lead. With two runners on base, Christine Tovey smacked a pitch deep into the outfield, clearing the bases for an inside-the-park home run. Two batters later, Kellie Tovey matched her older sister by smacking a pitch deep in the outfield for a 2-run homer.
The pair said it was not the first time they both hit home runs in the same game.
“We play ASA softball in the summertime,” Christine Tovey said. “We both hit out-the-park home runs right after each other.”
Kellie Tovey acknowledged her sister as being the better hitter of the pair
“She’s saying me,” Christine Tovey said. “But it really depends on the game.”
“That was actually my first hit of the season,” Kellie Tovey joked.
Lindsey Nolette started the power surge in the fourth inning, smacking a pitch deep into outfield with the ball rolling almost into the woods (Bonny Eagle has no outfield fence) and raced around the bases for the home run.
Heather LeBlanc and Samantha Adams would follow in the sixth inning with back-to-back home runs, sealing the 11-5 score.
“This is the first game that we’ve had strong hitting,” Christine Tovey said. “The first two games, we haven’t been that strong in hitting, and we’ve been working on that.”
LeBlanc and Christine Tovey were the top hitters for Sanford in the contest. LeBlanc went 2 for 4 at the plate, with a homer and a triple, while Tovey went 2 for 4 with the homer and a double.
Faith Crosby started the game on the mound for the Redskins, and was productive, striking out eight Bonny Eagle batters in four innings of work. Running into some trouble in the fourth, Cochin made the move to the bullpen for Adams, who struck out six batters without allowing a hit in three innings of relief work.
Lindsay Sumerset provided the most trouble offensively for the Scots, going 3 for 4 in the contest with two RBIs.
The next two contests will be good tests for the Redskins. Sanford hosts McAuley on Friday and then travels to Kennebunk on May 4.
Cochin said there’s still plenty of work for the Redskins to do.
“We’ve got to start shutting the door on teams,” Cochin said. “We gave up four runs [in the fifth inning] and that makes me nervous, and we’ve given teams a little too much wiggle room. That’s something that we need to focus on. We need to be shutting the door on them on defense. So far, they’ve done what I’ve asked them to do, so I think if I ask them to do that, that’s something they can do.”
— Contact Dave Dyer at 282-1535 ext. 318.
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