WPCNR PRESS BOX. May 30, 2006 UPDATED 10:07 P.M. E.D.T.UPDATED WITH PIX: White Plains advanced to the semi-final of the softball Section 1 Tournament  this afternoon, pounding 11-hits on a fusilade of hard-hit Baltimore Chops, in timely fashion to take a 6-1 lead after four innings. Kelsey Kulk pitched a 4-hitter, fanning 9, walking  2. Shortstop Dany Szabo hit two solo roundtrippers, the first making it 3-1 in the Tigers big third.

In the Long Shadows, One Out Away; Left to right, Ashley Encarnacao at first, Kelsey Kulk in the Circle and Carrie Abbott on the hot corner and Sandra Mastrangelo behind the plate closing the door on Carmel in the 7th. Photo, WPCNR Sports.

After Carmel took a 1-0 lead in the first on a walk, sacrifice and sacrifice fly, the Tigers came right back when Dena Frederick scorched a single to the left of the shortstop moved to second on a sarcrifice holding second on Kulk's single to deep short.

Dena scored the equalizer from second on a tremendous collision at homeplate with the Carmel catcher on Dany Szabo's single to right. The diminutive Frederick took out the catcher twice her size,  blocking the plate as the throw arrived from center and Frederick bowled the catcher over, laying her flat out and the catcher did not tag her.

Kelsey Kulk Humming It in the seventh. Photo, WPCNR Sports.

Frederick,  crawling, scrambling,squirming and flopping to the plate over the prone catcher scored the tying run to make it 1-1. From the first base side, a fan said the catcher was definitely blocking the plate without the ball. They said that as Dena collided with the catcher, the ball hit the catcher's glove and bounced to the fence, as Dena slithered along the foul to "hand-slap" the plate with one desperate palm. SAFE!

Lisa Tompkins singled to center on a Baltimore chop up the middle to plate Kulk, who had moved to third to make it 2-1 after one frame.

The Tigers broke it open in the third on Dany Szabo's line drive homer over the "White Plains Softball" sign in centerfield. It left the yard like it had a train to catch. 

Then Ashley Encarnacao was hit by a pitch and Lisa Tompkins was safe on another highhop single. With the score, 3-1  Sandra Mastrangelo lined a double on one-hop to the fence to score Ashley Encarnacao and Tompkins to make it 5-1. The Tigers added a run in the fourth on a. Szabo homered again more majestically in the sixth, to end the scoring.

The Tigers Walk to the traditional PostGame Conference. They are finishing another season to remember. Photo, WPCNR Sports.

The Tigers play next Thursday afternoon on O'Donnell's Bluff against Arlington which annialated Fox Lane, 18-0 today in one semi final, while New Rochelle will play Clarkstown North in the other semi-final in Clarkstown.  NewRo shut out Horace Greeley, 3-0 and Clarkstown North defeated Suffern earlier this afternoon, 8-3.