Last season without a single senior on the team the Miller Place softball team won the Suffolk County championship. So, it stands to reason that this championship level team, now with experience under their belt would once again be a powerhouse this year, but no one could have imagined this sort of dominance coming.
Miller Place enters the week with a perfect 8-0 record. While that might be unsurprising it's how they amassed that record that will have you questioning if there is some sort of typo in this article. Miller Place has outscored their opponents by a ridiculous mark of 126 to 6 runs.
To put that into more perspective the Panthers have scored a dozen or more runs in every game this season, they put up a 27 spot in their opening game against Hampton Bays and have scored 71 runs in 4 home games this season. On the other side of the field the pitching and defense has been just as impressive. Only one team has scored more than one run against this squad, and they already have three shutouts in the early going.
Star pitcher Ava Zicchinelli, who was so instrumental in their success last year has been electric with 8 victories, to lead Suffolk County, and she has 58 strikeouts in just 37 innings pitched.
Offensively this team doesn't have any player with more than one home run, yet they are putting up video game offensive stats, which just highlights the depth of this lineup.
This team is not quite halfway through the season, but if the early returns tell us anything it's that Miller Place isn't just the team to beat, but they look like an all-time dominant team.