Doug Hastings
Submitted to the Billerica Minuteman
Billerica Memorial High School s softball team completed an unlikely trip to the Div. 1 North championship on Saturday with a 3-1 victory over the previously undefeated Peabody High School Tanners on Kiley School Field.
The victory advances BMHS to the state semifinals on Monday, June 28, in Taunton at 7 p.m.
Taunton won the Div. 1 South title on Saturday night with a 4-0 victory over Bridgewater-Raynham.
Taunton has yet to allow a run in four playoff victories.
The Indians, seeded 17th after a regular season that saw them finish 8-7, trailed Peabody by a 1-0 score before scoring twice in the top of the fifth inning and adding another run in the seventh on the way to the victory.
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.