In the category of feast or famine, Newtown High School's softball team had a dominant performance — a 19-0 win over host Kolbe Cathedral of Bridgeport on May 11 — following a 3-2, extra-inning loss to visiting Notre Dame Prep of Fairfield at Treadwell Park on May 7.

Neither offense could muster much with mostly-dominant pitching by Newtown's Addy Cordova and Notre Dame's Leilani Navarro combining for 19 strikeouts, only three walks, and 14 hits in eight innings. Cordova, specifically, had ten strikeouts and issued one walk. NHS overcame an early 2-0 deficit with a pair of unearned runs in the third inning and it remained deadlocked until the Lancers broke through five frames later.

Lila Accousti doubled and Gabby Ansman tripled, each driving in runs; Olivia Doersch and Accousti scored runs as the Nighthawks capitalized on a two-out error to that set the stage.

Both pitchers worked around leadoff hits in the sixth. A leadoff triple and sacrifice fly produced the decisive run in the eighth. The Hawks got a one-out base runner on an error in the bottom half of the inning, but could not tie the score.

The Nighthawks improved to 11-5 with their eighth double-digit offensive outburst of the campaign at Kolbe. Pitchers Mia Napolitano and Adriana Miodonka combined on a one-hitter with 11 strikeouts in this five-inning, mercy-rule decision.

NHS had plenty of power with home runs off the bats of Elena Burdo, Accousti, and Reagan Schenzer; a triple by Izzy Ligouri; and doubles from Ansman (two), Accousti, and Schenzer. Newtown compiled 17 hits; Ansman, Burdo, and Schenzer each contributed three. Schenzer drove in five runs and Burdo four. Accousti had three RBIs and Ligouri, Ansman, and Evelynn Schoen all drove in a pair.

Sports Editor Andy Hutchison can be reached at andyh@thebee.com.