Youth Briefs
Softball
Bowie Boys and Girls Club U10 Navy girls county team defeated the Lady Cardinals, 8-5. With the win, the girls tied for first place. Navy then defeated BBGC Red to clinch the first-place position for the U10 division.
The Navy hitters performed well at the plate. Sarah Beitzell had a double and two singles to accompany her three innings of five-strikeout pitching. Sammi Beitzell hit for two singles. Allie Degrouchy had a single and pitched three innings of four-strikeout baseball. Ashley Aiple, Krista Flores and Gretta Coss each hit two singles. Cecily Jackson, Makenzie Jackson, Sruthie Palaand Lauren Pittman each contributed a single, while Alexis Brock and Taylor Keobler contributed great plays in the victory.
T-ball
BBGC Team 8 defeated Team 3, 24-21. Hitters were Corey Bast, Khalil Greene and Cameron Stuart with five singles each, Devin Newby with four singles, Kevin Smith and Collin Bast each with three singles and a double, and Marissa Latorre and Taylor Belcher each hitting four singles.
Soccer
Bowie Soccer United Storm U16 girls team competed in the Mid-Atlantic Cup held at Maryland SoccerPlex in Germantown.
The girls were entered in the U19 high school girls division. In the first game, they played against the LUYAA Sonics from Urbana, and came away with a 4-0 victory. Later the Storm faced a tough team from Montgomery Soccer Independant; the Storm led, 1-0, until late in the first half when the score was tied, 1-1. In the second half the Storm could not keep up with the heat and the pace of their foes and lost, 3-1.
The following day, the Storm trailed, 2-1, with 15 minutes to play when midfielder Zulia Menjivar tied the score with a 22-yard shot over the keeper's outstretched hands. With the clock winding down, a fast-breaking Rachael Callahan found the net and propelled the Storm into the championship game.
In the championship game against the Mt. Airy Chanceleers, BSU used a controlled passing game to wear down their opponents. Catey Christian got the Storm on the board first with a 20-yard screamer and the score remained 1-0 until the end of the first half. Mariba Ferguson scored for BSU to make the score 2-0 with about 10 minutes remaining in the game. The Storm defense, comprised of Kara Johnson, Collen McEntegart, Taylor Deloach, Colleen Lynott and keeper Cynthia Hernandez, shut down any Mt. Airy attacks. The final whistle blew with the Storm celebrating a 2-0 championship victory.
The girls elected to wear their "Pink" Breast Cancer Awareness jerseys for the game to show their continuous support for a cause they have been supporting all year.
Baseball
South Bowie Nos. 1 and 2 of the Prince George's County Junior South/Babe Ruth Baseball League (ages 13-15) battled for the second time of the season. This meeting went six innings with Team 1 defeating Team 2 on a walk-off single by Alex Grillo for his fourth RBI of the game, bringing home Kevin Curtis in the bottom of the inning for an 11-10 final score.
Team 2 opened the game with a six-run first inning thanks to hits by Tim Jumbelick, Jakob House, Ronnie Screen, Zack Garmoe, Matt Redmond and Patrick Dempsey. Roy Littlefield quieted down Team 2 over the next four innings, pitching no-hit 11-strikeout ball. Meanwhile, Team 1 answered with two runs in the first, three in the second, three in the fourth and two more in the fifth. Littlefield led the way, getting on base four times and scoring all but one time en route to batting two singles and three RBI.
Mel Johnson, Sideeq Smith and Will Beal had two hits each. Alan Ottenstein, Luis Manana and Shahruck Ali scored runs while getting on base with timely hits and unselfish walks and then stealing bases once they reached.
Austin Price and Sean Ewing contributed to the Team 1 victory. Team 2 tied the game in the top of the sixth with four runs off efforts by Dion Proctor, Jumbelick, Joe Langreo, Ben Philip, Screen and Garmoe. Also helping the Team 2 efforts throughout the game were Alexander Mayo, Alex Brown, Julian Leonard, Chris Sanford, Devin Anderson and Mike Anderson.
