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Good pitching, good defense and good hitting is a hard combination to beat and the Mt. Ararat High School softball team did it all to defeat Lewiston in a well-played Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference game on a crisp spring day.

Alana Weaver scattered seven hits, threw strikes, let her fielders play defense and received some clutch hitting from the Eagles big boppers, Kaitlyn Cox and Sara Lamb, in a 6- 2 victory, giving Mt. Ararat a 2- 2 mark with a visit to Brewer scheduled for today at 5 p.m.

Lewiston took an early lead when Kallie May doubled and came home on a Meagan Gosselin single in the first inning.

The Eagles responded in the bottom of the inning. Weaver legged out an infield hit and Cox reached on a fielder’s choice. Cox stole second and Sara Lamb rocketed an RBI triple to the base of the right- center field fence to tie the game. Zoe Stilphen singled to drive Lamb home to give the Eagles a 2-1 lead.

Weaver went into cruise control on the mound, breezing through the next four innings and never facing more than four batters per inning.

The Eagles provided Weaver with some breathing room with two runs in the third and two more in the fourth. In the third, Kelsey Scannevin reached on an error, moved to second on a grounder and came home on a Cox line- drive double to left. Lamb rapped a sharp single up the middle to score Cox.

In the fourth, Laura Secone got things started with a single. Morgan Johnson laid down a perfectly placed bunt that she beat out to put runners on first and second. A Scannevin sacrifice bunt moved both runners into scoring position. Kayleigh Temple cashed in the chips when she lofted a towering drive to right- center field that plated both runners, Temple ending up on second.

Lewiston’s Danielle Cyr took over on the mound in the fifth and pitched two scoreless innings.

Lewiston narrowed the gap to 6- 2 in the sixth, but Weaver buckled down and retired Danielle Cyr on an infield pop- up. Lewiston threatened again in the seventh but failed to score.