Elianna Meola shifted a few things around on the bench, then a couple more as a mild panic set in. A moment later, she buzzed around the dugout, openly questioning anybody paying attention.

“Where is it?” she asked as her search continued. “Where the hell is it?”

But what was she looking for? That’s what nobody could figure out right away.

At some point during the top of the fourth inning, while the senior was in the pitcher’s circle, head coach Kelly Fleck had picked up a stray can that was wind-blown onto the…