SPRINGFIELD — The Mahar softball team wobbled but never broke, Monday.
The Senators allowed five runs with two outs in the bottom of the seventh, but held on for an 8-7 win over Putnam.
Mahar scored six runs in the top of the seventh to take an 8-2 lead.
“I wasn’t overly happy with the output,” said Mahar coach Jerry Duguay, whose team is 1-1 on the year. “But a win is a win.”
Megan Rich led the team in the win, going 2-for-4 with four RBIs, one double and one walk. She also pitched all seven innings, striking out 10 while walking one.
Rich knocked in Alexis Mainville-Schaefer in the third inning with an double for a 1-0 lead. Putnam tied the game in the bottom half of the inning with one run.
Jordyn Berry then knocked in Rich in the fifth to give Mahar a 2-1 lead, but the Senators surrendered another run in the bottom half of the inning as Putnam tied the game again.
In the top of the seventh, Shelby Ponusky, Rich, Sarah Graeff, Jordan Lohnes, Berry and Mainville-Schaefer all scored for Mahar. Eight-grader Juliana Herbert hit a two-run double, while Graeff and Rich each hit RBI singles.
Mainville-Schaefer played her first game at catcher for the Senators.
“She played well behind the plate,” added Duguay.
Berry also went 2-for-4 in her first game back after being out with an illness and not practicing last week.
The Senators are back at it Tuesday on the road against Easthampton.