Lyman coach Gary Hoyt elected not to bunt in the third inning when Lyman had runners on 1st and 2nd.
Did it cost him?
Coginchaug leads Lyman in the Class S softball state championship game, 1-0, through 3 1/2 innings at DeLuca Field in Stratford on this warm and sunny Saturday.
Tori Delvecchio doubled off the left-field fence, some 190 feet away from home plate, in the bottom of the second inning. She was sacrificed to third and scored on a wild pitch.
The Bulldogs had Chrissy Bourgoin reach second in the top of the second after she had the only hit off Coginchaug pitcher Brittany Hill thus far.
Lyman also put two runners on in the third inning when Hill walked both Jenelle Jahoda and Ashlee Coutu. But Hoyt elected to swing away and neither Chrissy Sabo nor Katie Fitton could advance the runners.