Saints clobber Maroons

Elgin's Brandi Hernandez tries to avoid the tag of St. Charles East's Rebecca Reinbold at second base on Thursday in Elgin. The Saints won 11-0.
Karen Naess|FOR THE COURIER NEWS

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ELGIN -- Whatever magic Elgin High had found to beat Larkin and East Aurora in back-to-back games on Tuesday and Wednesday went up in smoke and vanished on Thursday.

When the dust finally settled, visiting St. Charles East had snapped the Maroons mini-win streak with an 11-0 defeat in five innings.

"That's just the way it goes sometimes," Elgin High coach Peg Corcoran said. "One day everything goes right for you and the next day nothing goes right. We just didn't execute the way we have the past couple days."

Elgin freshman Hannah Perryman (3-6) pitched for the third straight day but was not near as effective as she was in her two victories.

The Saints (5-3, 2-0) pounded out 10 hits but Perryman also didn't get much support. The Maroons (3-12, 2-3) committed five errors leading to six unearned runs.

"I think Hannah had the same kind of stuff she had the last couple days," said Corcoran. "I think we just put so much pressure on our pitchers to have to be perfect."

The Saints opened up the scoring with a run in the first inning. Pamela Sommer reached on a single and later scored on a groundout by Jenny Niemiec. The Saints added four runs in the third inning. The first four batters reached on a pair of singles, a walk and an error. They eventually scored on a pair of wild pitches and two errors.

The Saints broke open the game with six runs in the fourth inning. Mary Kate Brooks (3-for-4) had a two-run single, Sommer drove in a run with a triple, RaeAnne Payleitner added an RBI double and Steph Roan chipped in an RBI single.

"We knew their pitcher had been throwing the ball really well, " said East coach Kelly Barnett. "So we had to come ready. I liked the way we attacked the ball. We had what we call our relaxed-aggressive approach."

East got a strong performance inside the circle from Gabriella Moe and reliever Katie Stengler. Moe went the first three innings and allowed just one infield hit, while striking out six and walking two to improve her record to 5-1. Stengler struck out two, walked two and did not allow a hit in two innings of work. Caris Alan had the lone Maroons hit.