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Source: MI Prep Zone
Author: MATTHEW B. MOWERY
DETROIT >> The key to surviving in the postseason isn’t to think you’ll never get hit hard — it’s merely to avoid being the one that gets squished.
While both teams in the Division 1 softball quarterfinal at Wayne State may feel like bugs on a windshield after Tuesday’s dual offensive maulings, only one of them flew away from the encounter.
Source: MI Prep Zone
Author: MATTHEW B. MOWERY
FARMINGTON HILLS >> It’s not always easy to remember your first home run, when you’ve hit so many that each new one attracts attention like it’s your first.
For Abby Krzywiecki, Michigan’s newly-minted home run queen after breaking the state’s single-season record in districts, an early one still resonates as one of the most memorable.
Source: Hometown Life
Author: Dan O'Meara
Farmington Hills Mercy hitters produced 21 hits in support of senior pitcher Andrea Elmore to win a Division 1 regional softball tournament for the second straight year Saturday.
The Marlins (40-2) had a dozen of those hits in the championship game as they rolled over Walled Lake Northern in five innings at Novi High School, 11-1.
Source: MI Prep Zone
Author: MATTHEW B. MOWERY
DETROIT >> Sometimes, it’s not as much about how hard you hit, but rather about how hard you hit back.
Walled Lake Northern got to the regional championship game by counter-punching when Novi threatened to tie it up in Saturday’s first semifinal.
Source: Hometown Life
Author: Dan O'Meara
Farmington Hills Mercy hit the ball in the right places and made the most of its opportunities to defeat Lakeland in a regional softball game Saturday, 3-0.
The Marlins, who had nine hits, scored early in the game and held on to win the battle between perennial Division 1 powers at Novi High School.
Source: Hometown Life
Author: Dan O'Meara
Senior first baseman Abby Krzywiecki set a state record for single-season home runs and led Farmington Hills Mercy to a district softball championship Saturday.
Krzywiecki hit a two-run shot in the seventh inning of the final game, capping a 7-0 victory over North Farmington in the Division 1 tournament at Livonia Stevenson.
Source: MI Prep Zone
Author: Dan Fenner
Marlins senior Abby Krzywiecki broke the MHSAA single-season record for home runs Saturday.
LIVONIA — Saturday was a good day for the Farmington Hills Mercy softball team and a truly great one for one player in particular.
Source: Hometown Life
Author: Dan O'Meara
When a team has momentum on its side, it becomes something of an unstoppable force.
That was Farmington Hills Mercy during a late stretch of the Division 2 regional championship game in girls lacrosse Friday evening at Farmington High School.
Source: Hometown Life
Author: Dan O'Meara
It was either teams’ game to win at halftime Wednesday with Farmington Hills Mercy holding an 8-7 lead in a Division 2 girls regional lacrosse semifinal.
That changed at the start of the second half as the Marlins scored six unanswered goals in the first eight minutes and sank any hope Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard had of winning.
Source: MI Prep Zone
Author: MATTHEW B. MOWERY
Abby Krzywiecki’s fifth-inning, three-run home run against South Lyon East on Thursday put the Farmington Hills Mercy Marlins at the mercy-rule margin to finish the game.
Coupled with an earlier solo shot, it also put Krzywiecki just one shy of the state’s single-season home run record.
