Burrell Boom Survivors win Belize Rural women’s softball champs

The Burrell Boom Survivors won the 2010 Belize Rural women’s softball championship at the Lords Bank field on Sunday.

In Game 1, the Survivors advanced to the championship finals when they won 14-12 over the Strikers of Double Head Cabbage. Strikers’ Stacy Smith, Merle Frost Ashanti Anderson and pitcher Sherraine Westby came home in the 1^st inning, to lead 4-2, as only Marsha Wills and Judy Soberanis came home for the Survivors.

The Strikers shut out the Survivors in the 2nd inning, but the Survivors’ Soberanis Sharette Vernon and Sherrie Mcfadzean came home in the 3^rd to tie the score at 5-5 as Strikers’ Ashanti Anderson crossed the plate.

The Strikers walloped out a 11-7 lead when Smith, Frost, Anderson, Malthia Garbutt, Carla Humes and Stephanie Talbert came home in the 4^th inning and only Survivors’ Wills and Baptist crossed the plate.

Wills, Sharette, Sherrie, Davis, Joyce Flowers, and Baptist came home in the 6^th inning and take over the lead 13-11. Strikers’ Merle Frost scored in the 7th, but Arneek Baptist came home in the 7^th to give Survivors the 14-12 win

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In Game 2, the Easy Does It girls eliminated the Lords Bank Sunrise girls 6-2. Katheeen Rhaburn, Audrey Castellanos and Audra Mcfadzean came home in the 2nd to lead 3-0. Sherrie Stephenson came home for sunrise in the 3^rd inning, but so did Sharra and Shanna Robinson for Easy Does It, as they led 5-1. Sunrise’ Kathleen Henry came home in the 4^th, but Sharra Robinson crossed the plate again in the 5^th inning for the 6-2 win. In Game 3, the Easy Does it girls advanced to the finals by a 9-7 win against over the Strikers. They led 2-1 when Dian Rhaburn and Bernadine Carcamo came home in the 1st inning, while only Merle Frost crossed the plate for the Strikers. Pitcher Margaret Hendy shut out the Strikers in the next 3 innings, while the Easy Does It lead grew to 4-1 when Tricia Rhaburn came home in the 2^nd inning and Audra Macfadzean came home in the 4^th.

The Strikers’ Stacy Smith and Frost came home in the 5th inning, but the Easy Does It extended their lead to 9-5 when Dian Rhaburn, Ana Wade, Kathleen Rhaburn, Audra Macfadzean and Tricia Rhaburn came home in the 6th inning. Only Sherraine Westby and Josephine Flowers crossed the plate for the Strikers in the 6^th. Westby and Malthia Garbutt rounded the bases in the 7th, but the Easy Does it girls won 9-7.

In Game 4 the final, the Survivors swatted Easy Does It 10-6, leading 3-1 lead when Marsha Wills, Sherrie Macfadzean, and Florence Davis came  home in the 1st inning, and only Kathleen Rhaburn crossed the plate for Easy Does It.

Survivors’ Arneek Baptist extended the lead to 4-1 in the second inning, while Survivors’ pitcher Valerie Vernon shut the Easy Does It girls. Dian Rhaburn and Kathleen cut the lead when they scored in the 3rd inning.

The Survivors’ lead grew to 8-6 as Judy Soberanis, Sherrie, Davis and Karina August came home in the 4^th, while Easy Does It’s Kathleen Rhaburn, Audrey Castellanos and Audra Macfadzean also came home in the 4th.

The Survivors allowed no more runs in the next innngs, while Wills and Soberanis scored two more runs in the 5h inning for the 10-6 championship win.

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