Kingston comes through on coach’s birthday

It’s a tradition going on, well, three years, but Kingston High’s softball team has not disappointed.

For the third straight year, Kingston played and won on head coach Trishann Hayes’ birthday. On Thursday, the Tigers presented their coach with a 7-0 shutout of Orange County Interscholastic Athletic Association foe Newburgh.

Shannon Bonewit pitched a three-hitter for the victory, striking out three and walking just one. This followed Wednesday’s 20-0 blanking of Pine Bush by Victoria DeMercurio.

Kailyn Lukaszewski doubled in one run and Sydney Bonewit singled in another to give Kingston a 2-0 lead in the second inning. Back-to-back singles from Sydney Bonewit and Alyssa Finno set up Shannon Bonewit’s sacrifice fly for a 3-0 advantage in the fourth.

Finno, Shannon Bonewit and Jessica Chilcott drilled consec-

utive singles in the sixth, loading the bases and setting up the big blow: Megan Peace’s bases-clearing twoout double. Alyssa Villielm followed with her own double into the gap to cap the scoring.

Everyone in the Kingston starting lineup had a hit. Peace led with two singles and the double. Shannon Bonewit singled and doubled, while Sydney Bonewit and Finno each had two hits, and Villielm and Lukaszewski each had an RBI.

The Tigers, now 4-1 in the OCIAA’s Division I and 9-3 overall, is scheduled to play a non-league game at Ichabod Crane on Saturday.