NPC Softball

The NPC softball team concluded its 2008 season by winning one of three games in the MMSL playoffs, losing to Allbritton and knocking out top-seeded Gazette before succumbing to Atlantic Video.

In game 1, NPC scored three runs in the top of the first, only to have Allbritton score four in the bottom of the inning. The score stood 4-3 until the fifth, when Allbritton put the game out of reach with four more runs. Final score: 9-5. In game 2, Big Blue scored four in the top of the first and never trailed, defeating the Gazette, 8-4. In most of its wins this season, NPC used strong defense to hold down its opponents, and this game was no exception. In game 3, Big Blue failed to score in the top of the first despite getting the first two runners on base, and wound up trailing, 4-0, on four unearned runs after four. AV broke it open with four in the fifth and four in the sixth, winning, 12-2.

The victory against the Gazette was Big Blue’s first playoff victory in more than a decade, and ensured that the playoffs would be as big a success as the season was.