he Billerica High softball team was two outs away from advancing to the Div. 2 state semifinals before visiting Somerset Berkley Regional tied the game in the top of the seventh inning and then won it, four hours later, in an 11-inning thriller at Barbara Hood Field.
Doug Hastings
Submitted to the Billerica Minuteman
Sophomore Naomi Boldebuck’s run-scoring single in the bottom of the sixth inning catapulted the Billerica Memorial High softball team to the Saturday, June 26, Div. 1 North championship in Peabody.
The Indians will face the Tanners at 1 p.m. at the Kiley School softball field.
The second-seeded Peabody squad is undefeated, with a 17-0 record and has defeated three Merrimack Valley Conference teams on its way to the title game.
The Tanners beat Haverhill 6-0, topped Methuen 6-3, and defeated Andover on Thursday, 6-0.
BMHS defeated Woburn and Arlington before edging North Andover 2-1, at the Marshall Middle School.