Although the Incredible Feets Cubs won both of their weekend games May 17 and 18 by identical scores of 16-12, each Jericho Athletic Association fifth and six grade girl's softball contest unfolded quite differently. Then, Tuesday night, they lost to Hicksville Blue by the same 16-12 margin.

Saturday the Cubs came from behind vs. the Cardinal Products Cardinals at Jericho High School. Brittany Cohen's pitching helped the Cards build an 11-1 lead. Erica Leibowitz, Morgan Strauss and Cohen each scored twice in the 2-inning rally. But the Cubs came back with 5 runs in the second while relievers Melissa Hartman and Lauren Siegelbaum held the Cards to just one more run.

In the fifth inning, Erica Buki's single drove in Lauren Villalva to tie the game, then Rachel Podbielak knocked in Danielle Katz for the lead. Allyson Chernick provided the insurance with a bases-clearing double. On defense, Siegelbaum and Julie Gold produced all the fifth and sixth inning outs, turning a double play and retiring the last four Cardinal batters on pitcher-to-first groundouts.

On Sunday, the Cubs built the big early lead, then hung on as the Silverman, Perlstein & Acampora A's scored all the late runs at Seaman School. The Cubs had 16 runs after three (Buki scored 4, Podbielak and Jessica Weingast 3 each). Four different Cubs drove in 3 runs apiece. Gold and Weingast pitched for the Cubs, with Kristina Hobbs behind the plate.

A's reliever Stacey Nelson held the Cubs scoreless the rest of the way, and the A's roared back with 8 unanswered runs. Lindsay Snyder's double and singles by Kimberly Schwarcz, Jordan Levenstein, Samantha Pearlstein, Abby Wank, and Cori Goodman keyed a 6-run final inning, but it was not enough to climb out of the early hole the A's had dug.

On May 20 the Cubs had the tables turned on them in a third 16-12 decision, a loss to Hicksville Blue at Seaman School. Nine runs in the last 2 innings made it respectable. Hartman pitched 2 innings and had a great night at the plate (2-3, BB, 3R, 3 RBI). Amy Ballin and Siegelbaum also pitched. Shanen McElhinney (3-for-3) scored twice. Podbielak had 2 RBIs.