EASTHAM — It was a Senior Day that will be long remembered by the Nauset High softball team. In a contest that featured seven lead changes, the Warriors scored two runs in the bottom of the sixth and survived a bases-loaded jam in the seventh to earn a 10-9 win over Nantucket on Monday afternoon, May 19.

‘I’m glad we won,” said an understated coach Harold Pini, whose team halted a four-game losing streak. The young squad, which fielded six starters in the eighth and ninth grades, is now 7-11 and needs one victory in its two remaining games to surpass last year’s win total.

Before the game, the team recognized its three seniors — Lila Alger, Molly Farrell, and Cammie Rose. The Warriors then proceeded to reward the crowd with a dramatic nail-biter that was in doubt until the last out. In fact, if there were such a thing as a Senior Day game factory, it would manufacture a game exactly like this one, with plenty of twists and turns and ending with a Warriors victory.

A crucial moment came in the fourth inning when Pini sent Alger home from third on a delayed steal. She hustled to the plate after a pitch as the catcher’s return throw to Nantucket pitcher Seren Cristler was in the air. Cristler’s hurried throw back to the catcher was late, and Alger slid under the tag, tying the game at 4. Later in the inning, second baseman Farrell singled to score catcher Harper Wade and give Nauset the lead.

Freshman starter Brynn Kew turned in a gutsy performance, allowing only one hit and recording seven strikeouts in four and one-third innings but was hampered by wildness at times. After Kew surrendered two walks in the fifth, Pini brought on eighth-grader Ava Lagasse in relief. Lagasse, Pini presciently noted in the preseason, was a newcomer to watch. She got the Warriors out of the inning but not before the Whalers had gone back in front, 6-5.

It was 9-8 Nantucket in the bottom of the sixth when Coach Pini’s charges loaded the bases with no outs. It appeared that Cristler might get out of the inning unscathed after recording two strikeouts. But eighth-grader Wade stroked a single, plating Lucy Hartung and Alex Mince, putting Nauset back on top.

That lead was in jeopardy in the seventh as Nantucket loaded the bases with one out. Lagasse, showing the toughness of a veteran, bore down, striking out the next batter and inducing Nantucket’s number three hitter to ground weakly to the mound to end the game.

Coach Pini summed it up nicely. “We’ve had trouble getting the ball over the plate all year,” he said, “but they made some good plays in the field, and all in all they did a good job.”

Alger had three singles, and Farrell and Wade each contributed two hits. Lagasse went two and two-thirds innings for the win, striking out five to help her senior teammates notch a memorable victory.

The Warriors played Wareham Tuesday evening and close out the season Friday with a game at home against St. John Paul II.