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BOONSBORO — After striking out Smithsburg’s Olivia Garnand, Boonsboro freshman Rachel Roupe had a smile on her face as she gathered with her teammates along the third-base line.
The strikeout was the final play on a near-perfect day for the Warriors in a 17-0 victory in five innings over county and CMC Gambrill foe Smithsburg on Monday.
Roupe tossed a one-hitter with five strikeouts and had four hits and four RBIs to lead the Warriors, while Hannah Stewart had three hits and Taylor Wyand added a pair of singles and four RBIs for Boonsboro (2-0, 2-0).
“Rachel threw a fantastic game and defensively, there were no errors,” said Boonsboro coach Mark Wadel. “We played a clean defensive game. ... We played very defensively and offensively.”
The right-handed Roupe carried a perfect game into the third inning before allowing a walk to Garnand. The no-hit bid ended with two outs in the top of fifth when Smithsburg’s Hannah Spinks singled up the middle.
“I was a little mad at myself for letting that one hit go,” said Roupe. “But I had to look at everything else I accomplished and coming back from our first game against Catoctin ... I felt like I rebounded.”
“(Roupe) does a very good job,” said Wadel. “She needs to stay a little more focused, but she throws very hard and she’s a competitor. She wants to be great every pitch she throws in every at-bat, she’s a difference maker.”
While Roupe was setting down the Leopards (0-2, 0-2) in the circle, the Warriors were doing the opposite at the plate.
Boonsboro racked up 21 hits in four innings, batting around in both the second and fourth innings.
“They were all being very patient,” said Wadel. “They weren’t necessarily hitting the first pitch or the first strike, they were being patient and hitting the one they wanted and having good success at it.”
Roupe drove in the first run of the day on a triple to score Karly Payne, who singled in the previous at-bat, in the bottom of the first to make it 1-0.
In the second, Boonsboro sent 12 batters to the plate and picked up seven runs to go up 8-0. Mikayla Miller had a solo homer and an RBI single in the inning. Roupe, Rebekah Singleton and Wyand added RBI singles in the frame.
“I had a strike on me and I just had to protect the plate,” said Miller. “It was a good pitch and I just hit it, I didn’t think it was going over.”
The Warriors tacked on three more runs in the third on a two-run single by Wyand and an RBI single by Payton Smith.
Boonsboro capped off its strong performance with six runs in the bottom of the fourth. Grace Roupe had a pair of RBI singles, while Rachel Roupe had a two-run single and Wyand, Brianna Pittsnogle and Morgan Dyer each drove in a run.
“It was right there every time it felt like,” said Rachel Roupe. “Their pitchers weren’t crazy everywhere, it was pretty consistent on where they were throwing. We got it down after awhile and we starting hitting it.”
On the day, all 12 of the Warriors reached base at least once with eight having multiple hits.
“We’d been working a lot at practice on our hitting and trying to figure out what’s working best for us,” said Miller. “I felt like we put that into effect tonight and we had a lot of hits.”
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