Brookfield East edged Brookfield Central, 2-1, Thursday afternoon at East and moved into a first-place tie in the Greater Metro Conference.
Central, East and Menomonee Falls all have one loss.
Central pitcher Taylor Held had her defense let her down twice. First of all, East's Jocelyn Yeager had two chances to get on base in the first inning. First of all, Yeager's popped fouled ball was dropped, giving her another chance. Then she flew out to left field and was safe when the leftfielder dropped the ball.
Kelsey Smith sacrificed Yeager to third and she scored on Elizabeth Aslin's single to leftfield. East then added the eventual winning run in the fifth inning, when Smith tripled to right field and scored on a poor relay from the outfield.
Central's Ariel Goodman, Lindsay Wille and Brittney Held singled to cut the lead to 2-1 in the sixth inning, but East pitcher Amanda Kalupa, who fanned 14, struck two of Central's best hitters - Jessica Meichtry and Andrea Schneider, to get out of the inning.
Central had the tying run on third in the seventh with two outs, but Kalupa fanned Goodman to end the game.
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