true grit The freshman right-hander continued her outstanding season, striking out six, and she also scored two runs as IHA downed Indian Hills, 7-1, in Sunday’s Bergen County softball final at Ramapo College. It was another stellar performance for the 5-foot-4 dynamo from Pequannock. For weeks, her coaches have been saying that Thomas hasn’t pitched well – even though the victories and stats say otherwise. “I’m still trying to process it,” Thomas said. “It’s been a long season. I’m just happy we’re here at the end.
This is when we get the championships. This is when we bear down and we win.” “She is incredible,” IHA coach Anthony LaRezza said. “She has guts and character. She showed true grit in that third inning when she got those two strikeouts with second and third, because they were kind of taking the game to us a little bit.” LaRezza was referring to the turning point in the game. Both teams had chances in the first three innings, as the Braves opened their half of the third with a single by Maddy Levine before Jackie Connolly reached on an error. After Kelly Strittmatter moved them over with a bunt, Thomas stared at two of the best hitters in the Indian Hills lineup. Both had great at-bats, fouling off multiple pitches before striking outI think sometimes her nerves get a little in the way,” said IHA assistant coach Diana Schraer, who was a star pitcher at Paramus. “But the thing is she makes adjustments. She listens.
She is extremely coachable and she just does what she has to do to get byThomas, 15, is a product of the successful Little League softball program in Pequannock; there’s a reason the Golden Panthers have won three straight Morris County titleSchraer first saw Thomas when she was 11 and pitching in a clinic.e always had a fast arm; she always did,” Schraer said. “But she was also always working to get better. She always wanted to be the best and she continues to do that.When I was little, I worked on my arm speed,” Thomas said. “That just came naturally, and then I started working on my legs and started lifting and doing agility drills. I just got a lot stronger.”
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