No. 3 Trumbull rallies in the seventh to beat No. 8 Seymour

SEYMOUR — Trumbull’s softball team overcame a two-run deficit with a three-run, two-out rally in the top of the seventh and held off host Seymour 5-4 on Monday.

“I’m really proud of their guts, they way they showed perseverance,” Trumbull coach Jacqui Sheftz said. “I’m really proud of the girls. We’ve got to build on this.”

Julia Huzi smashed a game-tying double down the left field line and took third base when the ball was misplayed.

Huzi came across with the go-ahead run on a clean single to center off the bat of Alexa Adinolfi.

Trumbull pitcher Emily Gell worked around a leadoff single in the bottom of the seventh, inducing a pair of ground balls for force outs and a pop up to left to end it.

Seymour scored runs in the first and second inning to take a 2-0 lead. Gell stranded the bases loaded with a pair of strikeouts to end the second.

Seymour capitalized on an error in the first when Jacey Costello reached and later scored on a Sierra Cripps double.

The Wildcats again capitalized on an error in the second when Kiley Regan reached on an error and scored following a walk to Alyssa Johnson and singles off the bats of Coscello and Lauren Haversat.

The Eagles — No. 3 in the GameTimeCT poll — got a run back in the third. Huzi walked with two outs and scored on Adinolfi’s double to deep center.

Trumbull tied things with another two-out hit in the fourth. Mackenzie Bruggeman singled after fouling off a few two-strike pitches to start the rally. Kiley Barbagallo ripped a game-tying single.

The Wildcats, ranked eighth, went back up a pair of runs in the bottom of the sixth on a two-run double off the top of the wall in left-center off the bat of Haversat.

Trumbull’s seventh-inning rally started with one out singles by Barbagallo and Ava Dunn.

“They’re the No. 3 team in the state for a reason. We got a lead, they fought back. We made a couple mistakes in the field and they made us pay,” Seymour coach Ken Pereiras said.

“Overall, I’m very pleased with our team. We played a good game — just not good enough,” Pereiras said. “We’re still young. We’ve got a lot of young kids out there. I think we’re going to get better as the season goes on.”

“I think we need to clean up our defense a little bit. We gave them too many outs today,” Sheftz said.