The Tanners wrapped up the 2024 season on Memorial Day with a non-conference, 9-0 win at Archbishop Williams High. The game was the fourth in as many days for the Tanners, who finished the regular season 17-3 and now await the release of the Division 1 state tournament brackets. They were scheduled to be announced Wednesday, May 29 (too late to print).
Abby Bettencourt tossed a three-hitter and struck out 11 with two walks. She also got the job done with her bat, going a perfect 4-for-4 with a home run, double, three RBI and three runs scored. Logan Lomasney (3-for-4, 2 runs, 2 RBI) also homered. Lizzy Bettencourt (2-for-3, double, run) and Kiley Doolin (2-for-4, RBI, double) also had multiple-hit games. Jess Steed (1-for-2, run, RBI), Kaylee DiNicola (1-for-3, run) also had base hits.
First-year head coach Steve Lomasney said he believes the Tanners are peaking at the right time as they chase a state title.
“The state championship has been the goal since we started,” he said. “The girls have practiced with this in mind and I feel they are in a great place as a team to put a great run at it. They’ve played a number of tight, tournament-type games, which have been important for preparing to play in a state tourney. They are playing really good softball at the right time.”
Peabody 15
Masconomet 3
Sunday morning, the visiting Tanners put on an offensive fireworks display, pounding out 16 base hits in a mercy-rule rout over Masconomet.
Lizzy Bettencourt (2-for-2, 3 runs, 3 RBI) smashed two home runs. Lomasney (3-4, 4 runs, 3 RBI, double) also homered.
Avery Grieco went the distance in the circle, allowing seven hits with nine strikeouts. She also shined at the plate, going 2-for-4 with a double and 3 RBI.
Doolin (2-for-4, 2 runs, RBI, double) and Steed (2-for-4, run double) had two hits each. Abby Bettencourt (run), DiNicola (run, double, RBI), Payton Petrillo (run, RBI) and Caitlyn Burke (run, RBI) also had base hits.
Peabody 15
Newton North 6
Saturday, it was another game, another road rout for the Tanners. They combined for a season-high 19 base hits, four of them from Lomasney, who had a monster game and hit for the cycle with six RBI and two runs scored. Abby (3-for-5, 3 runs, 2 RBI, double) and Lizzy Bettencourt (3-for-4, run, RBI, double) had three hits each. Steed (2-for-5, 2 runs, 2 RBI, double), J.J. Emerson (2-for-4, 2 runs, 2 RBI) and Doolin (2-for-4, run, RBI, double) had two hits each. Jaslyn Iraola (run), DiNicola and Grieco had one hit each.
Central Catholic 6
Peabody 5
Friday, the visiting Tanners had the lead but couldn’t hold it, losing a walkoff in the bottom of the seventh inning. Lizzy Bettencourt was a perfect 4-for-4 with two runs scored and two RBI. Abby Bettencourt took the hard-luck loss in the circle.
Peabody jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the top of the first. Bettencourt (2-for-4, 2 runs) led off with a double and scored on Lomasney’s (1-for-4, run) RBI single. Doolin (1-for-4, RBI) made it a 2-0 game with an RBI double that plated Lomasney. The Tanners made it 3-0 with a solo run in the third. Lomasney led off with a single and scored on Lizzy Bettencourt’s single. Central Catholic knotted the game at three all with a run in the third and two more in the fourth. Peabody regained the lead in the fifth. Abby Bettencourt led off with a single, advanced to second on Lizzy Bettencourt’s single, and scored on a clutch RBI single from Grieco (1-for–4). Lizzy Bettencourt made it 5-3 when she came around to score on an infield error.
Central rallied with two runs in its half of the inning on a pair of solo home runs.
