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Intense thunderstorms wreak havoc with Lynn softball 16s
GORHAM, Maine - Intense thunderstorms that came close to tornados wreaked havoc with the first day of the Lynn Babe Ruth 16U softball tournament at the University of Southern Maine yesterday.
Lynn lost the first game, 4-1, to Ammonoosuc, Maine, getting only four hits.
Tiffany Drown pitched for the Lynners, going six innings, giving up four runs, two of them earned, walking eight and striking out five.
Meantime, Lynn only had one hit - a single by Katie Collins - until the seventh, when Courtney Walters and Lindsay Ballard got pinch-singles. The Maine team left 11 runners on base.
Lynn was supposed to play Rochester, N.H., yesterday, but the storm pushed all the games back. That game will start at approximately 9:30 today, and Lynn will be back in action later today (around 1:30).
"There was a game between our two games, so I stayed to scout it, as we would be playing both teams," said Paul Halloran, who is helping as a coach for the team. "In about the fifth inning, I heard someone say that there was lightning at (the main field at USM).
"All of a sudden, you looked beyond left field and it was getting darker and darker."
The storm blew through felling several trees in Gorham.
"On a scale of storms, this was a nine," said Halloran. "Torrential rains, high wins, trees falling down."
The first storm subsided, and the subsequent game was in the sixth inning, "and it got even blacker than it was before," Halloran said. "We're talking about nighttime black.
"Same thing," he said. "Winds, rain, trees going everywhere."
Revere, which won the state tournament and has an automatic berth in the World Series in Pittsfield next month, defeated Manchester.
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