An emotional rollercoaster ended with a slam Tuesday night for the Lady Whalers softball team. A grand slam, that is.

With a first-place League VIII showdown between Pierson-Bridgehampton and Babylon looming large yesterday afternoon, one thing had already become perfectly clear over the last week.

The wins are piling up for the Pierson-Bridgehampton baseball team and so is the strikeout total for lefty ace Colman Vila, who fanned another 18 batters in a 10-0 win over Stony Brook on Monday that clinched the League IX title for the Whalers.

Pierson (18-1) played at Stony Brook in the second game of a three-game series on Tuesday and won again, 10-0.

That old adage “what a difference a day makes” really rang true this week past. Fishing has definitely gotten much better.

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It has been a tough few games for the Pierson-Bridgehampton softball team, which took its lumps over the last week as it moved through the League VII-VIII crossover portion of this season’s schedule.

The Lady Whalers dropped three straight games to Hampton Bays, Bayport-Blue Point and Shoreham-Wading River over the last week and fell to 6-5 on the season. They still kept pace in League VIII with first-place Babylon (7-4), which also dropped crossover games and led Pierson by just one game going into this week’s action.

The Lady Whalers will host Stony Brook tomorrow, May 3, at 4:30 p.m. and will travel to Port Jefferson on May 7 for a road game at 4:30 p.m. If all goes according to plan, Pierson will have a shot at moving into position for a share of the league title when it plays Babylon on May 8.

A good week turned even better Monday afternoon for Colman Vila, who has been nothing short of sensational for the Pierson-Bridgehampton baseball team this season.

The Whalers’ lefty ace tossed a no-hitter with 17 strikeouts, allowing just one walk in the first inning, to beat visiting Shelter Island, 9-0, in the first meeting of a three-game series with the rival Indians on Monday.

Vila stated the obvious after the game, saying that pitching the no-hitter did not come easy. He immediately gave credit to his teammates, especially catcher Aaron Schiavoni, and to his head coach, Jon Tortorella, for h delping achieve the milestone.

Appreciation Day for First Responders The Pierson-Bridgehampton softball team will host a Sag Harbor Emergency Response Appreciation Day tomorrow, May 3, during a home game against Stony Brook, which starts at 4:30 p.m. Southampton Town Police Officer Todd Bennett will play bagpipes during the pregame and one member from each emergency response team will throw [...]

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