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Gray-New Gloucester s Maisie Lerette easily touches home plate before Freeport’s Amanda Panciocco catches the ball during Thursday’s game in Gray. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal
GRAY After an overwhelming victory over Freeport on Wednesday, Gray-New Gloucester’s softball team came out of the gates slowly Thursday, giving up a home run to the fourth batter the Patriots faced. The offense got back on track in the bottom of the first, taking the lead with a bunt, a triple and some base hits as the Patriots cruised to a 16-2, five-inning victory.
“We just started a little flat,” Gray-NG coach Darcey Gardiner said. “I think with the score yesterday they came out with some high hopes and expectations today, not realizing that Freeport is going to come with a fury. They have hitters on that squad, they were super-aggressive batters yesterday, swinging on first-strike pitches, so us coaches knew that was going to happen and I think our defense started flat and underestima
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Poland’s Kaylin O’Leary swings for a pitch that went for a single during a win over Gray-New Gloucester in Poland in 2019.
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In one way, Kaylin O’Leary’s Poland Regional High School softball career will end the same it started.
This season, the senior will again be playing with her sister.
The only difference is that this time she is not the younger sister on the team. She’ll instead be the older sister showing her sibling the way to play the varsity game.
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Kaylin O’Leary got to play with older sister Karley during her first two high school seasons, but the two were denied a third together last year when the entire spring season was canceled. Now freshman sister Khloe has joined the team, just as Kaylin is about to wrap up her high school career.