Amsterdam holds off Burnt Hills, earns chance to claim 1st softball championship | The Daily Gazette
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AMSTERDAM Shelby LaMont had hit home runs before, and Sydney Szczepanik had pitched out of jams before, but never with so much on the line.
LaMont drilled a three-run homer in the third inning, and Szczepanik quelled a bases-loaded, seventh-inning threat with a game-clinching strikeout as Amsterdam beat Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake 4-2 in a Section II Class A softball semifinal Thursday at Shuttleworth Park.
Their clutch efforts helped give Amsterdam a crack at its program’s first area championship. The Rams last played for a Section II championship in 1982.