Yokota senior Zaylee Gubler tossed a no-hitter Friday against Matthew C. Perry, one of three no-hitters thrown on the Pacific softball and baseball diamonds this weekend. (Yokota softball)
No-hitters abounded the last three days on the Pacific baseball and softball diamonds.
Seniors Zaylee Gubler and Casey Bumpers of Yokota each tossed no-hitters, Gubler pitching four innings Friday as the Panthers softball team beat Matthew C. Perry 14-3 and Bumpers went six innings in blanking the Samurai 2-0.
“She was really on this weekend,” Panthers softball coach Steven Cruz said of Gubler, who also got the win Saturday in relief of starter Erica Haas at Yokota’s Headley Memorial Field.
Gubler gave up a run and two hits in Saturday’s relief stint. She started at shortstop and helped herself with two singles, a run batted in and five stolen bases.
In Friday’s contest, Gubler struck out 10 and walked only one and helped herself with an RBI triple.
It was a complete turnaround from Gubler’s first appearance of the season, on March 7 at Kadena when she took the loss in a 6-3 defeat.
“She got off to a slow start, but she worked hard to get where she got yesterday (Friday) and today,” Cruz said.
At Yokota Park on the base’s east side, Bumpers struck out 11 and walked only one and helped himself with a pair of doubles and two stolen bases.
It helped lead the Panthers to a sweep of the three-game weekend series with the Samurai.
On the Kanto Plain diamonds, a possible no-hitter thrown Thursday by American School In Japan’s Billy Freund against St. Mary’s remains in question.
The Mustangs’ electronic scoring program showed the game as a no-hitter, while the Titans’ program indicated that Freund had given up one hit, a soft single past shortstop by St. Mary’s Issei Takahashi in the bottom of the sixth inning.
A video obtained by Stripes showed Takahashi’s slow grounder rolling under Mustangs shortstop Joe Sexton’s glove into left field.
The game was also played under protest by the Titans, who claimed that the helmet wore by the Mustangs’ catcher was not legal.
Attempts to reach the Kanto Plain Association of Secondary Schools president were not successful.
