In Thursday's league outing, the host Newtown Nighthawks softball team scored a close 6-5 win over the Weston Trojans.

Coming up next, the Nighthawks encounter the Barlow Falcons (Redding, CT) in a Southwest - Patriot outing, on Friday, April 27. Newtown will attempt to upgrade on its 2-2 season record. The Falcons enter the outing with a 3-7 record after their 7-5 league loss to Pomperaug (Southbury, CT).

The Trojans (2-8) will now prepare for their outing against New Milford (New Milford, CT). The Green Wave enter the Southwest - Colonial outing with a 4-4 record.

Weston suffered it's third, one-run, away, walk-off loss of the season, 6-5 at Newtown. Trailing 5-3 going into the bottom of the 7th, Newtown was able to rally to score 3 runs to get the win. Kat Fischer pitched a great game, going the distance with 6 strikeouts and allowing only 3 earned runs. A couple of untimely walks and errors by Weston allowed 3 runs to score that should have been avoided. Devon Brostoff lead Weston's offense with 2 doubles, 2 RBI and a HBP. Weston's speedy Freshman Julia Rogers scored 2 runs as a pinch runner, including a steal of home. Lianna Hursh had 2 hits, including a triple and kaidy Wollman had 2 hits. Sami Briggs played an excellent game at 3rd Base.