Tahoma’s fastpitch team is on a roll having won eight straight since its first league loss to Kentwood a month ago.

Thanks to that streak Tahoma was all alone in first place in the South Puget Sound League North through April 27 with an 11-1 league record.

The Bears avenged their April 2 defeat at the hands of the Conquerors on April 24 with a 12-9 comeback.

Down 7-0 after two innings, Tahoma took advantage of costly mistakes by Kentwood, and scored seven in the final two innings to keep the winning streak going. The Conks committed eight errors in the game.

Senior Jordan Walley hit 3-for-4 with a single, a double and a home run to account for four RBIs. Sophomore catcher Bre West had a 2-for-5 day with a pair of doubles and three RBIs. Hayley Beckstrom, a senior shortstop, finished 3-for-5 with a pair of singles, a double and an RBI while Halle Elliot was 2-for-4 with a pair of singles and a run scored.

Maddie Scott got the win in the circle. She pitched six innings and struck out four.

A day earlier Tahoma beat Mount Rainier 15-0.

West was 2-for-3 at the plate with a pair of triples along with two RBIs, Walley was 2-for-2 with a single, a double and two RBIs, Beckstrom finished the day 2-for-3 with a single, a double and two RBIs while Elliot was 2-for-4 with a single, a double and two RBIs.

Amanda Allison was 2-for-2 with two singles, an RBI and two runs scored as well as two stolen bases.

Meanwhile Kentridge has quietly moved into fifth and final spot for the playoffs in the past week.

After a 4-2 loss to Auburn on April 23, Kentridge beat Kent-Meridian then upset Kentlake and beat Auburn Riverside before losing to second-place Thomas Jefferson on April 28.

On April 24 the Chargers put together a 10-1 victory against the Royals with Abagail Bellin leading the way at the plate going 2-for-3 with a pair of doubles and two RBIs while Kayla Andrus with 1-for-3 with a triple and three RBIs. Ashley Conradi was 2-for-5 with a pair of singles, a triple, two runs scored and two RBIs.

Andrus pitched a complete game. She scattered six hits and struck out 14.

Kentlake and Kentridge seem to like extra innings. Both match ups went to an extra frame.

The 3-2 victory on April 25 over Kentlake was key for Kentridge’s playoff hopes.

Kentlake narrowly defeated Kentridge in the first league game of the season in March in eight innings.

Bellin was 1-for-2 with a single and an RBI. Defensively Bellin was crucial as well as she tallied eight put outs.

Conradi was 1-for-4 with a single and an RBI on a sacrifice fly.

Finally Bri Drury led the Chargers at the plate with a 3-for-4 day and contributed the third RBI.

Lizzet Dominguez pitched a complete game for Kentridge. She allowed two runs despite giving up 10 hits, all of which were singles, and struck out three.

Kentridge followed that up with a 10-3 win against Auburn Riverside on April 27.

Hannah Overall was 3-for-4 in the game with three RBIs while Anna Dugan went 2-for-3 at the plate with three runs scored.

Dominguez struck out seven, scattered seven hits, walked one batter and allowed three runs in a complete game outing in the circle for the Chargers.

Kentridge couldn’t keep up the momentum on April 28, however, and lost 8-5 to Jefferson.

Bellin was 2-for-2 with a single, a double, two runs scored and an RBI while Drury was 2-for-3 with a pair of singles, a run scored and an RBI.

Kentlake sandwiched its loss to Kentridge with wins over Auburn on April 24 and Mount Rainier on April 27.

In those two wins pitcher Hannah Sauget picked up a pair of victories in the circle to go with a pair of bombs at the plate.

Sauget was 2-for-5 with a double, a home run and three RBIs in a 16-3 defeat of Auburn, while she struck out 10.

Brittney Jacobsen finished the day 3-for-5 with an RBI and a stolen base.

The Falcons jumped on the Rams pitching right away scoring three runs in the bottom of the first inning then put the nail in the coffin with five more runs in the bottom of the sixth.

It was a home run derby for Kentlake as three different players hit home runs.

Sauget pitched a complete game and helped herself out going 2-for-4 with a home run and three RBIs while Jacobsen was 3-for-5 with three RBIs and a home run with Lexi Engman rounding it out with a home run and two runs scored.

Kentwood bounced back from back-to-back losses against Jefferson and Tahoma on April 23 and April 24 with a 5-2 on April 28 over Auburn.

Bailey Marshall hit her first home run of the season for the Conks in the top of the second inning when she crushed the ball over the left center field fence — hitting it more than 200 feet. She finished the day 2-for-3 at the plate with two RBIs.

Kentwood scored all five of its runs in the first two innings.

Kendall Goodwin got the complete game victory in the circle for the Conks.

Next Kentwood put away Riverside 17-5 on April 28 to avenge an early season loss to the Ravens which the Conks dropped 6-5.

The home run parade continued in the SPSL North when Tiana Faagalulu hit a long ball against Riverside in a 2-for-4 day which she drove in three runs, scored two and hit a triple.

Allison Newcomb was 3-for-3 at the plate with two RBIs and three runs scored.