Bay Softball rallies past Lorain with five-run third inning in 12-7 win

Bay High School’s varsity softball team erased an early three-run deficit Thursday and took control with a five-run third inning, beating Lorain 12-7 in Lorain. The decisive swing came from Julia Mavis, whose three-run double highlighted the rally that turned a 3-1 hole into a 6-3 Bay lead.

Lorain struck first in the opening inning. Alaiya Super singled home a run, and another two runs scored on an error to give the Titans a 3-0 advantage. Bay answered and then broke through in the third, piling up five runs on three hits. Mavis delivered the biggest hit of the inning with her run-scoring double that brought home three and flipped the game in Bay’s favor.

Maeve McFarland led the Rockets’ offense with a four-hit day, going 4-for-5 and reaching base repeatedly from the middle of the lineup. She doubled in the first inning, added a solo home run to center field in the fourth, doubled again in the fifth and singled in the sixth. Caitie Petersen added three hits in four at-bats as Bay finished with 14 hits. Lucy Corbett also drove in a run with a single during a two-run fourth inning that pushed the lead to 8-3.

Corbett earned the win in the circle for Bay, working 6 2/3 innings. She allowed seven hits and seven runs, five of them earned, while striking out eight and walking six. Lorain continued to pressure the Rockets on the bases, stealing seven bags in the game. Alonna Coleman drew two walks, while Coleman, Vada Blankenship and Alysandria Lighty each stole multiple bases. Blankenship and Olivia Charlton had two hits apiece for Lorain, and Charlton drove in three runs.

Charlton took the loss for Lorain after allowing 12 runs, six earned, on 14 hits over six innings. The Titans were clean defensively and did not commit an error, with Shyann Gonzalez handling a team-high six chances in the field. Even so, Bay’s steady stream of hard contact and its game-changing third inning proved too much to overcome in windy, stormy conditions.

The Rockets are scheduled to return home Tuesday to face North Olmsted, coming off an afternoon in which the lineup stayed productive throughout.