GORHAM — Last year, Madison Weeks had to watch from the sidelines as the Bonny Eagle softball team played the season without her.

On Friday, those same teammates pulled off perhaps the wackiest win of the spring. And it was Weeks who was in the middle of it all.

Weeks, a senior center fielder, hit a bases-clearing double in the top of the seventh and collected five of her six RBI in the last two innings as the Scots rallied from a seven-run deficit to beat Gorham, 15-9.

Four innings into the game, Bonny Eagle (4-2) was down 9-2. But a run in the fifth, five in the sixth and seven in the seventh flipped the game around, and gave a team looking to announce itself as a Class A contender its biggest jolt of confidence yet.

“Part of me was a little concerned, when we’re approaching the fifth inning and we’re still down like (we were),” said Weeks, who missed last season because of a torn ACL suffered the previous fall. “But the way our team has been this year … I know the girls on this team are able to keep going.

“This was the best game I think I’ve played.”

The comeback

• The Scots were down 9-3 in the sixth before two runs scored on a single by Reese Bryant, another on a hit by Amelia Fries and two more on a Weeks single.

In the seventh, Bella Hanson and Lily Regan singled, putting the tying and go-ahead runs on base. That brought up freshman Emily Ireland, who picked up her second hit with a single to left that drove in Hanson to tie the game.

Ireland said she was “definitely nervous,” but found a way to tune out the jitters.

“I’m just not thinking,” she said. “Like, sometimes I’ll just name fruits so I’m not thinking about the game.”

• After a Bryant single loaded the bases, Regan scored the go-ahead run when Fries hit the ball to short and the Rams (5-1) couldn’t get the out at home.

Providing insurance

• After a strikeout, Weeks came to the plate. She took a ball and then hit a line drive down the left-field line, allowing Ireland, Bryant and Fries to come home and put the Scots comfortably ahead, 13-9.

It was Weeks’s fourth hit of the day, and her second double.

“I was just thinking ‘I don’t want to be the last out,'” she said. “I just made sure that I kept my clean swing. … I was just talking myself through it, saying ‘You can do this, you can do this.'”

• Lily Parker added an RBI single and Bonny Eagle scored another run on a dropped third strike before the inning ended. In the bottom half, Regan got the Rams in order to finish off the improbable win.

“It’s incredible,” coach Travis Demmons said. “I’m going to be referencing this throughout the year. If we get in a hole, ‘Remember the Gorham game.’

“I told them, you’re not going to find me speechless many times. But I’m pretty speechless right now.”

Strength in numbers

As Bonny Eagle fell behind, Demmons began putting his bench players into the game. Those players helped key the rally. Ten players had hits for the Scots, and Fries, Bryant and Parker, all of whom drove in runs or scored in the seventh, weren’t in the starting lineup.

In all, 15 players came to the plate for Bonny Eagle.

“It was a total team effort,” Demmons said. “Our team’s really deep. I told the girls, we’re going to change the lineup up all season long. It’s all who’s producing.”

Early lesson

• Sawyer VonderHaar and Abby Buckelew drove in two runs apiece for Gorham, which scored four in the first and two in the second and seemed on its way to extending its undefeated start before the Scots stormed back.

“I was impressed with how (the Scots) handled their at-bats the whole game,” Rams coach Jason Dubail said. “They did a really good job.”

Dubail said the loss will help his team going forward.

“We got out (in front) early, but I knew they were going to stay in it the whole time,” he said. “It’s always a learning experience. This is going to be really good for us to happen in early May and be able to say, when you’re up against a really good team, it’s never over.”

Stat leaders

• Bonny Eagle: Madison Weeks (four hits, two doubles, six RBI), Lily Regan (three hits, double), Reese Bryant (two hits, two RBI), Emily Ireland (two hits, RBI), Bella Hanson (two hits)

• Gorham: Sawyer VonderHaar (two RBI), Abby Buckelew (two RBI), Terra Rioux (triple, RBI)