GREENFIELD — With rain forcing multiple postponements to open the season, the Greenfield softball team was forced to play nine games in a 12-day span.

Saturday’s game was possibly the toughest of them all. 

The Green Wave won their first eight games of that stretch but faced Westfield — the No. 1 ranked team in the MIAA Div. 2 state tournament power rankings — on Saturday, a team Greenfield has struggled with the past few years. 

Despite falling behind 2-0 early the Green Wave scored twice in the fourth and that score held through the seventh, sending the game to extras knotted at 2-2. 

MacKenzie Paulin didn’t allow the Bombers to score in the top of the eighth and the Greenfield bats got going in the bottom of the frame, with Anna Bucala, Ainslee Flynn and Paulin each hitting a single to load the bases for eighth grader Madison Lemay. 

Lemay stayed patient and drew a walk, forcing in Bucala to lift the Green Wave to a 3-2 victory. 

“They’re a tough team,” Greenfield coach Ray Dodge said. “It’s one more thing my seniors have never done. They haven’t beat Westfield before so this is a big, big win for us.

“There’s always things we need to get better on that we know will come up in the tournament,” Dodge added. “As I told them, we played nine games in 12 days. I would have been happy with 6-3 but we went 9-0.” 

Westfield took a 2-0 lead in the first after Kelsey Bouchard hit a two-run home run. Paulin was lights out from there, not allowing another run, striking out 17 and scattering six hits. 

“We didn’t hang our heads when they hit the two-run homer in the first,” Dodge said. “It would have been easy to against a great team like this but they didn’t. They battled back, kept swinging, got a couple runs and got the walk to win the game.” 

A passed ball scored Flynn in the fourth before Gloria McDonald grounded out to score Paulin and tie the game at two. 

Paulin cracked a double, Flynn tallied two hits while Ellis Benitez recorded a pair of hits in the win. 

Mount Greylock 22, Mohawk Trail 10 — Sophia Goodnow smacked three hits and drove in five runs in the Warriors’ loss to the Mounties on Saturday in Williamstown. 

Abby Moffatt tallied two hits and two RBIs, Abi Dobias recorded two hits while Addie Loomis cracked a hit and an RBI for Mohawk Trail. 

Baseball

Hampshire 4, Pioneer 2 – The Raiders scored three times in the second inning and never relinquished their early advantage en route to a 4-2 Suburban League West victory on Saturday in Westhampton.

Ethan Mauthe had two hits, including a double, for Pioneer (13-3), which lost its first league game of the season. Jackson Glazier also had two hits for the visitors, which scored one in the fifth and one in the seventh. Alex McClelland had a hit and scored a run.

Hugh Cyhowski went the distance for Pioneer, striking out six and walking three while allowing six hits.

Girls tennis

Mohawk Trail 3, Greenfield 2 — Palmer King won in No. 1 singles (6-0, 6-0), Hazel Faucault took No. 2 singles (6-3, 6-1) while Ivan Hillenbrand and Landon Clark earned a win in No. 1 doubles (6-1, 6-4) to lift the Warriors past the Green Wave at the Davis Street Courts on Saturday. 

Karinna Kostov earned a win in No. 3 singles (6-3, 6-2) while Maddie Mosher and Adele Bross walked away with a win in No. 2 doubles (7-5, 6-4) for Greenfield. 

Deerfield Academy results

Here are the Deerfield Academy results from Saturday: baseball beat Phillips Andover (2-1), softball beat Stoneleigh Burnham (10-0),  girls tennis beat Choate (7-2), boys tennis fell to Phillips Exeter (4-3), girls water polo beat Phillips Andover (7-5) and Hopkins (10-3).

Boys track fell to Phillips Exeter (80.5-57.5) but beat NMH (57.5-43), girls track beat Phillips Exeter (83.5-65) and NMH (83.5-32.5) and boys lacrosse fell to Avon (12-10). On Friday, the Big Green girls lacrosse team beat Pomfret (15-3).