

Edison softball team rolls to tournament title

9:33 PM, May 4, 2013  |  Comments

The Thomas A. Edison softball team won the championship Saturday at the Mudville Tournament in Herkimer, led by Most Valuable Player Chelsea Storch.

The Spartans beat LaFargeville, 17-2, then topped Heuvelton, 12-3, in the championship game. Heuvelton is ranked 10th in Class D by the New York State Sportswriters Association and LaFargeville is 11th.

Edison, the state's 14th-ranked Class C team, improved to 11-2.

Storch was 2-for-4 against Heuvelton and 2-for-3 with five RBIs against LaFargeville, including a two-run homer.

Katelyn Warren continued her power surge with a two-run homer against LaFargeville, part of a 4-for-5 game that included five RBIs.

Edison trailed 2-0 after two innings against Heuvelton before tying the score in the third and erupting for six runs in the fifth.

"The girls really stepped up. That second game we were actually losing for a little while," Edison coach Becky Cooper said. "It really helped them buckle down. One of our statements that we say this year is 'Play TAE softball.' They were struggling with that. They had to regroup and find it. They did that really well."

Track and field

Notre Dame girls take title: The Elmira Notre Dame girls won the title at the Legends of the Night Invitational at Odessa-Montour on Friday and the Crusaders finished second in the boys meet.

The Notre Dame girls won 10 events and finished with 157 points, with South Seneca second out of the 16 teams with 70. Thomas A. Edison finished fifth and Odessa-Montour was eighth.

Trumansburg won the boys title with 111 points, followed by Notre Dame with 70. Odessa-Montour was fifth and Edison sixth.

Notre Dame's Brittany Schutrum won the 100-meter dash (12.5) and the 200 dash (26.4) and was part of wins in the 400 relay (51.7) and 1,600 relay (4:14.2). She was joined on the 400 relay by Mara Skordynski, Victoria Schutrum and Jen Smithers; with Smithers, Victoria Schutrum and Deborah Diarra also on the 1,600 relay.

Mary Pelkowski won the 1,500 (5:07.7) and 800 (2:27.7) for Notre Dame, Diarra won the 400 dash (1:00.7), Smithers won the 400 hurdles (1:07.1) and Skordynski won the high jump (4 feet, 10 inches). The team of Pelkowski, Allegra Dawes, Megan O'Dell and Mary Kubinsky won the 3,200 relay (10:33.07).

Boys winners for the Crusaders were Carl Shen in the 100 (11.4) and 200 (23.5) dashes, and Matt Watkins in the shot put (45 feet, 7.5 inches).

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