Lawrenceville hands WW-PN its first loss

It was a mixed bag for the West Windsor School District softball teams in matchups against the top two prep school teams in the area.

On one hand, West Windsor North suffered its first loss of the year when it fell to Lawrenceville, which is off to its best start in years.

On the other, following a slow start West Windsor South won its second in a row with a lopsided 9-2 triumph over Hun. LAWRENCEVILLE 4, WEST WINDSOR NORTH 1 LAWRENCEVILLE » The Big Red continued to impress with its fifth win in six games. Ciara Hoover worked nearly four innings for the win. McKenna Carpenter struck out five and took the loss. Molly Fitzgerald drove in two runs and doubled along with Kat McGrath and Lindsay Kucker, who finished up the game in relief. Good-looking freshman Aleyna Balewitz also had a key hit to make the score 3-1. Emily Garron drove in a run for North (4-1). WW-PN (4-1) 001 000 0 — 1 7 0 Lawrenceville (5-1) 020 002 x — 4 71

WP-Hoover. LP-Carpenter. 2B-A. Musmanno (WWN), (Fitzgerald (L), McGrath (L), Kucker (L). RBIs: WWN-Garron. L-Fitzgerald 2, Burrell, Balewitz.

WEST WINDSOR SOUTH 9, HUN 2 PRINCETON » South won its second in a game with a 10-hit attack featuring a home run by Sam Hastings along with doubles by Kayla Athey, Elyese Dunn and Allie Rome. Pitcher Pryanka Kaul and Athey each had two hits for a South team that handed Hun ace Alana Pearson the loss by scoring six runs in the top of the seventh. Meg Hanson also drove in three runs for the winners.

WW-PS (2-2) 210 000 6 — 9 10 2 Hun (1-3) 000 011 0 — 2 5 0 WP-Britt. LP-Pearson. 2B-Athey (WWS), Dunn (WWS), Rome (WWS), Venezalos (H). HR-Hastings (WWS).

NOTRE DAME 13, PRINCETON 0 PRINCETON » The Irish remained unbeaten behind a big game from Rachel Doan, who doubled and blasted a home run. Pitcher Gillian Roberts also doubled and pitched a threehitter.

Notre Dame (4-0) 220 63 — 13 16 0 Princeton (1-4) 001 00 — 1 3 0 WP-Roberts. LP-Twoloski. 2BGerosi (ND), Roberts. Doan (ND), Reinstein (ND). 3B-Guidi (P). HR-Doan.

PRINCETON DAY 21, PEDDIE 13 PRINCETON DAY » Peddie did not throw its No. 1 pitcher and it showed. Freshman Sydney Sassin had 3 hits and 3 RBI’s for Peddie.

Peddie (2-4) 615 010 0 — 21 Princeton Day (1-1) 548 050 0 — 13

TRENTON CATHOLIC 7, TRENTON 6 HAMILTON » The Tornadoes almost evened their record at 3-3, but Trenton Catholic came back in the last inning with a home run.