No-Hitters Among Huge Performances For Surging Warriors

NORTH EASTHAM – After the Warriors recorded the final out against Wareham last month, sophomore pitcher Brynn Kew walked to her catcher, freshman Harper Wade, and nonchalantly tapped her head.

Kew had just thrown an 18-strikeout no-hitter, hit a three-run home run as part of a 10-0 win and reached the 100-strikeout mark on the season in only seven games, yet she acted as if it was business as usual.

In some ways, it was.

Kew’s no-hitter against Wareham on April 21 was the second of her career. She ended up recording a third the following week in a 19-0 five-inning win against Falmouth on April 28. The no-no against Wareham was, so far at least, the only one in which she’d also hit a home run. The monster performances — back-to-back no-hitters — were two of multiple this year that have shown Nauset (9-2) to be a force with serious ability. 

Given the opponent against which Kew tossed the seven hitless innings with 18 strikeouts, the game was as good a symbol as any that the Warriors had officially arrived. Before this season, Nauset hadn’t beaten Wareham — a team that went 21-1 in 2025 — in their previous six meetings, dating back to before Kew was even an eighth grader. The average margin of defeat was 14 runs. Now they’ve beaten them twice (Nauset’s season opener was an 8-2 win against Wareham).

“That was huge,” first-year head coach Rachel Alger said. “Those Wareham games are huge for us.”

Last Saturday, the Warriors jaunted to a 19-3 win against Sturgis East. Sophomore Katie Connolly hit two home runs and Kew struck out 13 across seven innings. It was the second time that week Nauset had amassed 19 runs and the seventh time overall they’ve scored in the double digits.

With nine wins so far, Nauset has surpassed last season’s win total and ensured they’ll finish at or above .500, thus clinching a berth in the state tournament for Division 3 (in which they’re currently ranked 34th).

“I think we just wanted to have a better season than the past few seasons we had, because we have a really good, strong team, and we just want to show that we have that strong team,” Kew said. “And we want to be really good on Cape Cod and go deep in the tournament.”

Back to Kew’s no-hitters in April: she’s been the clear-cut MVP of the ascendant group. She throws a rising fastball that sits in the upper 50s and touches 60 miles per hour. She also throws a changeup and a screwball. She wears a wristband with a notecard on her glove hand bearing points of emphasis for her mechanics that she consults between pitches. 

Kew was already Nauset’s number one pitcher as a freshman last spring, but she said she feels more composed and more confident in herself this season. She wants to play in college.

Her numbers are elite. In 51 and two-thirds innings pitched, Kew has a 1.36 earned run average with 130 strikeouts and 41 walks. Opponents are batting .102 against her. As Nauset’s cleanup hitter, she’s batting .361 with a team-leading 1.066 on-base plus slugging percentage, 13 runs batted in and nine steals.

The trend of those individual stats is analogous to where the team has gone. Consider that as the lead pitcher for Nauset last season, Kew ran a 5.98 earned run average with 111 strikeouts and 86 walks in 59 and two-thirds innings. The jump has been made, by Warrior and Warriors.

“She put the work in on the offseason,” Alger said. “I mean, she's that athlete, like just all around. Works hard, knows what she has to do, consistent, knows her limits, knows when she needs to turn it on.

“So yeah, she's good.”