The Walpole High sophomore had another huge day at the plate, going 3-for-4 with a three-run home run and knocking in five runs as the Rebels maintained their edge in the Bay State Conference Herget Division edge with a 10-3 win over Weymouth.
Walpole improves to 12-4 overall and a 10-2 in the BSC, still a game ahead of Milton.
The Rebels stormed out of the gate with five runs in the first. After Weymouth got a run back, Frye’s homer was the key blow in a four-run fifth that broke it open. Yesterday’s three hits gave Frye 13 in her last 16 at-bats.
“She’s been pretty hot,” said Walpole coach Jim Duffy. “She’s really seeing the ball well. She started the season 1-for-12, I have to give our hitting guru Chauncey Smith some credit for helping her straight out her swing.”
Meg Johnson added a pair of hits for the Rebels. Kim Cunniff went the distance on the mound for her fifth win, allowing just one earned run.
The Wildcats pulled away from the Marauders with a pair of runs in the fifth and sixth to drop the Marauders to the brink of elimination from postseason consideration at 5-9. Dedham must wins its final four games to qualify, starting today in Newton North.
After Milton jumped out to 1-0, Dedham answered with one in the bottom of the third on a Sarah Mosoca single, a Melissa Wadman sacrifice and a Michelle Totino RBI single. But with the game knotted at 1-1 entering the fifth, the Wildcats put up crooked numbers in the next two frames to build a 5-1 cushion.
Julia Hasenfuss had an RBI double in the sixth to knock in Tameika Allen. Hasenfuss, Allen and Totino all had two hits for Dedham, which was out-hut just 11-9.
“We are getting people on, we just can’t score when we need to,” said Dedham coach Erika Eisenhut. “They strung their hits together better than we did.”
A two-out rally got the tying run to third in the seventh but the Wolverines could not push it home as they dropped to 10-6 overall and 8-6 in the Tri-Valley.
Christine McGrail got things going with two outs in the final frame by walking and Lauren Hillberg and Arianna DeBenedetto followed with singles to pull Westwood within a run but the Wolverines came up empty with a pair on.
Westwood jump out to a 3-0 lead in the second before Hopkinton grabbed the edge with four in the third and a run in the sixth. The Wolverines banged out 12 hits, including three by Chelsey Ristano and two each by Hillberg, Jill Greenberg and C.J. Kenney.
